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MT. PLEASANT. TEXAS. THURSDAY, JUNE 9. 1960
NUMBER 64
PRICE 5 CENTS
VOL. 41
criticism of him
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Eisen-
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DALLAS — Robert L Proffer
Schreder said, he landed at
5:30 p.m. yesterday.
1. G. PROCTOR
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KnoxvilleTenn ) News-Senti-ministration policies in a state-
nel and Betty Jean bv the Nor- ment the governor said
ing at Alps Cafe.
Harris, vice-president
Virginia as
man
ference with President
hower and, in talking
bees in 1925— with several years
out for World War II — the girls
have defeated the boys 2-1 in
winning top national honors
Two Nixon backers — Sen their regular weekly meeting
Everett M Dirksen of Illinois | with. Eisenhower on legislative
and Rep. Charles A. Halleck of
Indiana — came out of a con-
with
the
they accept as reliable reports
of Soviet shifts in missile base
construction in the aftermath of
the U2 plane downing.
word today tie would reply at a
late afternoon news conference
! convention
month
morning
Doss was shot once
before
Runner-up was Betty Jean
Altschul, 12. Norfolk, Va
Henry clinched the title by
told the Senate
Tt is one <>f the most eloquent
Boy, 13, Wins
1960 National
Spelling Bee
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but-
hat
Services Friday
For G.G. Proctor
Funeral services will be held Marshall Branch- and Marshall
accident at his home Thursday cers was announced Thursday School, and included summer only war ready long range mis-__
- work at Southern Methodist Un- sile, and the International Assn added They gave
ast Germans Release
American Glider Pilot
Atomic Mishapi World
Chances Small Briefs
Longview, R. V. Blackmon, Dan
Latimer. Everett Redfearn, A.
D Petty. Norvel Redfearn, T.
C. Walker Jr., Tommy Joyner,
Jno B Stephens Jr., T L. Flor-
ey. Jack Pope. Morris Rolston.
Gordon Brock. M. E Larkin. H
pers Rabe will handle general
pows reporting and sports for
The East German Communists
said that Schrader's ' allegat
ions" were checked before he
was released.
This was not immediately ex-
The statement contained only
praise for the President, bu’
noted that his service was end-
ing
lis, Palmore Currey. J. S Ken-
nedy. M. L. Cline, Gary Taylor
and Charles P. Barbaree.
"Nobody was involved in this,
it was just an accident." Doss
told Deputy Sheriff Jim Talley
es is outlined in the U. S. Con-
stitution.”
ing in his new position He al-
so will continue as circulation
MICROFILM stevICE & SALES
PO BCX 8066
DALLAS TEXAS —
story of gutting lost and land-
ing by mistake.
floor
His family reported Doss had
mentioned earlier he was going,
to check plumbing fixtures by
going under the house through,
the false floor
growth of the newspapers
Rabe, a recent graduate of
North Texas State College at
Denton, has had prior experien-
manager of the papers
Promotion of Poteet and addit-
ion of Rabe to the staff is an-
other step in the continuing ex-
pansion of the newspapers. Fur-
ey said Thursday He recently
designated Roy Burnett as com.
posing room foreman, in another
' move to care for the continuing
At the same time, he announ-
ced the addition of Richard
Rabe to the staff of the two pa-
day's radiation scare and the opened its drive against such
subsequent liaison breakdown pranks.
between the service and state | -----
AWAY GO THE HATS — Graduating midshipmen at the United States Naval Acad-
emy, Annapolis, Md, toss their hats into the air in a traditional gesture marking the.
end of commencement exercises. The graduates were commissioned in the four branch-
ea of the armed services after receiving their diplomas. (AP Wirephoto)
census report put Harris Coun-
ty's population at 1,227,188 Wed-
nesday with the Houston count munists simply meant they
still incomplete The county's checked out the glider pilot s
population was 806,701 in 1960.
national defense.
Dirksen and Halleck also re-
plane exploded Wednesday night
sa its pilot made a ground test
of the powerful engine expected
to take the research craft ot
speed and altitude records.
4-H Club Members
Will Attend Camp
Three 4-H club members from
Titus County leave Monday-
morning to attend the "District
V 4-H camp at Trinidad.
They are Johnny Johnson of
Green Hill, Curtis Duee of Win
field end Wesley Hall of Argo
The boys will return next Thurs-
day. --
GOING PLACES? — Travel-
ers Checks at First National.
two German soldiers with guns
came along. They said I had to
wait for the police. The police
came, and then two Russians "
Schreder said he was taken
to police headquarters at Grev-
esmuehlen and questioned for
four hours.
They were very kind,” be
I me food
I Prichard, commander of the kew, 24, was acquitted today in
New York Air'Defense Sector, the first airplane bomb hoax
told the meeting the Air Force case to go before a federal jury
assumed responsibility for Tues-
an engineer He was graduated fourth day in a row today.
Convair, builder of the nation’s
WEATHER
North Central Texas. East
Texas Partly cloudy through
Frdlay, widely scattered show,
era and thunderstorms mainly
in afternoon and evenings. Not
much change in temperatures.
Lowest 65 to 75 tonight Highest
85 to 92 Friday.
to Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller’s ported that Eisenhower had in
effect rejected Rockebfeller’s1
secretly ordered a 20-by-20 foot
swimming pool for the base-
ment of the old Senate Office
day seized on the McGuire Air
Force Base Bomarc missile fire ed to telephone his wife or glid-
and bomb scare Wednesday, ing championship officials oth-
playing it up as a horror story erwise, he said, be was treated
Schreder’s only complaint
was that ba had not been allow-
THIRTY THIRD NATIONAL SPELLING BEE GETS UNDER WAY — Jill Kennedy.
13 seventh grade pupil at Bolich Junior High School, Cuyahoga .Fails. Gy spells the .
first word as the 33rd National Spelling Bee opened at Washington, D C, with 73
contestants. Benson S. -Alleman, prounouncer, stands beside her. (AP Wirephoto)
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1 The Convention .Arrangements East German border near Klu-
would not describe, were now Committee also named Gov etz, not far from where an Air
being taken at the nations two Cecil H. Underwood
Bom arc antiaircraft missile
I told a federal jury here Wed
nesday that he was elected P . ‘---'
president of two fraud-charged
companies without knowing any farmers came up. but they did-
thing about the elections until n’t do anything to me Then
at the hospital
From information gathered, the papers
Sheriff L A Redfearn and Dep- Poteet joined the Times and
uty Talley said the rifle ap- Times Review on June 22. 1967.
parently fell in a closet and dw- He will have the responsibility
charged as Doss attempted to
unfasten * door in the closet
Maburn Harris
Tells Lions of
Tax Program
A tax equalization program is
a means by which the same
yardstick is applied to every-
body in setting property values.
HOUSTON — A preliminary
fessed not to recall anything
Nixon had said
in another show of colors, the 1
bulk of New York's Republican |
Congress members were report-
; ed to have endorsed Nixon for
president
The Troy (N Y) Times-Rec-
ord said in a copyright story
that- 23 of the 24 GOP members
Both are scheduled to appear at ham. both of DeKalb: Earl Nan-
a luncheon honoring Prince ce, Bryan Scott, Ben L Scott,
contention.
- By stressing this particular
note, they were putting empha-
sis on the view that Rockefel-
ler’s statement was a criticism
of Eisenhower as well as Nixon
The two Congress members
weie at the White House fori
21Nh last year He was also in ler exploded a political bomb-
since the federal government
matters. They are party floor
leaders in the Senate and House. |
Nixon sat in on the session of
the President and COP leaders,
but Dirksen and Halleck pro-
"SO. WHO'S WORRIED?" - An airman at the McGuire Air Force Base, N. J., scene
of a fire in Bomarc missile shed, relaxes on a stretcher while awaiting orders after
the fire and explosion. Newsmen and photographers, blocked at the
the restricted area, wait in background. No ’one was reported hurt in the fire al-
though one of the sheds housing the missile was badly damaged. (AP Wirephoto)
“But mechanization and con-
tinued division of lands and
properties since adoption of the
Constitution has resulted in tax
roll iniquities from one per
cent to 100 per cent.”
The Pickett Company current-
ly is conducting a tax valuation
program for the City of Mount
Pleasant and the Mount Pleas-
ant Independent School District.
Value of a parcel of land is
Building on Capitol Hill in
Washington
by W. N Furey, publisher of, __. . ___, . , _. ___,
through the newspapers and president of Diversity in his undergraduate of Machinists locked in massive and drink and everything 1
the chest at close range with a Mt Pleasant Times Publishing education _ struggle. Wanted"
44-40 Winchester rifle about
10 30
ing it ‘‘veleite”.
A member of Tennison Mem-
orial Methodist Church, Mr.
Proctor had served several
times on the official board and
was serving as a steward at the
time of his death
He was a member of the Ro-
and important statements is-
i sued in this election campaign."
The draft-available Rockefel-
Says Pritchard
McGUIRE AIR FORCE
BASE, N J P— The comman-
der of the nation's first Bomarc
missile base says the chances of
his weapons ever causing an
atomic mishap are “very re-
mote, indeed"
"These Bomarcs are more
fool-proof than soap." Brig
Gen. Gilbert L. Pritchard told
a news conference Wednesday ,
i night
newsmen, hit heavily on
ers: C S Crew, W A Taylor, Pickett and Co Valuation Eng-
Thomas Renfroe, Lee D. Me- Picket and valuation 6
sites here and in Suffolk Coun-
ts N Y.
A needle-nosed Bomarc
caught fire Tuesday at its
launching site 12 miles east of
here in a sparsely populated
wooded area
Pritchard said an Air Force
sergeant phoned State Police to
ask them to block off roads
leading into the area
"1 am sure the sergeant eith-
er implied or stated there had
been a nuclear explosion."
Feldman, 13. Oak Ridge Tenn. I vote was by Rep. Jessica M |
won the 1960 National Spelling Weis of Rochester, a national
Bee today He had tried twice
"I find it unreasonable in tary Club and had served on
sponsored by the Scripps-How- these times that the leading Re- the Mount Pleasant City Coun-
ard chain and other newspa- i publican candidate for the pres- fell during the early 1950's He
pers idential nomination has firmly was long prominent in civic and
Henry his eyes glistening insisted upon making known his | social affairs of the city,
with tears as he signed auto- program and his policies not be He is survived by his wife,
graphs, admitted that his final fore but only after, nomination Mrs G G. Proctor, the former
word was one he had had on by his party.”Miss Louise Irvin of Dainger-
several practice lists | Neither the nation nor the field; three sisters, Mrs. P.L.
Betty Jean was the first to
congratulate him Henry wins
the $1,000 first prize, a trophy
and plaque and a weekend sight-
seeing trip to New York Betty
Jean gets the $500 second prize
Final rounds got going with
words, mostly technical, that
show up only in the foot thick
Nixon To Answer
Rocky's Criticism m
WASHINGTON PH Vice-Pres- theme that Rockefeller had
ident Richard M Nixon passed j questioned the adequacy of the
dictionaries Three fell in the
GOP. Rockefeller said can Davis. New Boston, Mrs J. D.
march into the future holding a Lumpkin, Dallas, and Mrs G.
banner "whose only emblem is A Post. Sims, Tex . a brother,
a question mark" O H Proctor, Texarkana.
Nixon and Rockefeller may j Active pallbearers will be D
decided on
The 44-year-old flier, from
Toledo, Ohio, was met here at
the border crossing into West
Germany by his wife. Angie
She had not been allowed by
Comunist authorities to accom-
pany his trailer crew which had
driven across the Iron Curtain
border a few hours before to re-
trieve the sailplane and its pil-
ot
Schreder's return to West
Germany took less than 24
hours Usually it takes several
days for sport and glider pilots
to arrange their exit when they
accidently cross into East Ger-
many.
The all-metal glider landed at
Schreder 30 miles inside the
means the lowest degree of de-
sire, mere willingness.
Under the rules, the winner
must spell correctly the word
his opponent misses then spell
one more word correctly This
Hem ydid-after the-two-finalists
had both slipped up on several
words
The new champion finished
they were over.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — An in-
Dotui lives on Chambers
Street He was taken to the
hospital by Turner Bros am-
bulance
Pritichard said
He said the sergeant Clar-
ance Baldwin of the Air Force
Police, doesn't remember what
he told State Police."
generally arrived at from a re- Pritchard said the fire was “
cent sale price and location, he nited by an explosion some,
, said Buildings and houses are where within the missile closed
graded and valued by type of in its concrete launching pen
construction and personal prop- A second explosion caused an
erty valuations are based on evacuation of the immediate
See MABURN—Page 6 area
. general manager of the Real
Born in Dalby Springs, Tex, so serve as honorary paUbear- Estate Division of Thos Y
of West ‘ Force plane carrying nine per-
temporary chair- sons was forced down by Soviet
fighters just two weeks ago.
---That group had also been re-
NEW YORK - The New York leased, together with their
plane, with unusual ease and
has learned that senators have | speed They were held only four
days compared to similar groups
being detained in recent years
as long as seven weeks.
Proctor had owned drug stores
in several northeast Texas
towns.
His supporters, meantime,
were engaging in a fast series
of maneuvers to counter The
New York governor's * blast
while, on the sidelines, Demo-
crats chortled happily over the
prospect of picking up some po-
effect rejected Rockefeller's
ler-Nixon clash.
Rockefeller apparently briefed vie Rocket Plane
I — day’s first round j President Eisenhower at a 2 . , - >
The girls outnumbered thebreakfast conference at the Explodes in Test
boys 16-8 av today’s session be- White House before flying here I EDWARDS AIR FORCE
~ ineers, declared equalization
Kellar, E. L. Fender, James E and uniform assessment of tax-
Ball. R L Hardman, John El- and uniform assessment s
. . Poteet Named Times
Negro Is Hurt As A.
By Rifle Shot Advertising Manager
A Mount Pleasant Negro: 52- Promotion of Palmer Poteetce on the Daily News-Texan at Icreasingly bitter union strike for
year old Caleb (Shorty) Doss, to advertising manager of the Grand Prairie, Texas His home higher pay tied up five key U.
is being treated Thursday, at Mt Pleasant Daily Times and is Dallas, where his father is S defense installations tor the
Titus Memorial Hospital lor a Mt Pleasant Times Review,
Relumed le
West in Less
Than a Day
By The Associated Press LUEBECK, Germany in -
NEW YORK 4 The Broadway | American glider pilot Richard
theater strike was settled Tur 1 Chamuipiusam, "ALM Waanee
_____- I day and landed in East Ger-
i many, was allowed to leave
WASHINGTON- Congression- Communist territory with his
at 2 p.m Friday at the Tenni- Coffey, all of Mount Pleasant,
this Wednesday son Memorial Methodist Church Serving as honorary pallbear-
WASHINGTON ( - Henry night. .for Guy Gober Proctor, 73. ers will be Ben Patrick, of
It said the only dissenting The Rev. Eugene D. Bennett
Jr., former pastor of the chur-
ch. will conduct the services.
committeewoman. Burial will be in Forest Lawn
On the Democratic side. Cemetery.
Sen Lyndon B. Johnson of Tex- Mr. Proctor died suddenly
las. who hopes for his party's from a heart attack at 3 pm.
crrwi 1 the ward presidential nomination, com-Wednesday at his home, 808 E. C. Avery and George Sandefur.
the correct spelling of the word mented that Rockefeller’s at-1st | The following doctors will al-
"eudaemonic The word means, tack on Nixon perhaps means L
producing happiness, —that both party conventions Oct 16, 1886, he came to Mount
Before that Henry hadicor; "may be open after 311 Pleasant from DeKalb in 1932
recti spelled, velleity : Be "It looks like trief-e is some and purchased what became
Jean missed that one by spell: life in the old elephant yet." he Proctor Drug Store from P. 0.
e wor cracked Wilhite. Only last week, be an-
When the Senate met, Sen. nounced the formation of the
William Proxmire (D.Wis.) ask- Proctor Drug Co., in partnership
ed to have the text of Rockefel-with Bryan Scott A member of
ler’s statement published in the the Texas and Northeast Texas
Congressional Record. He told pharmaceutical Association Mr
civil defense officials __.
WASHINGTON — Republicans
He said the safety device in today selected Rep. Walter H.
a Bomarc’s nuclear warhead Judd veteran Minnesota con
made the likelihood of a fire’s gressman and toreign affairs
causing an atomic explosion ex- expert, to keynote their national
tremely slight. convention in Chicago next
Maburn Harris told the Lions Nonetheless, he added, spe-
Club at its Thursday noon meet cial precautions," which he
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