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ABILENE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1958—TWENTY-TWO PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
Trio Uses Haskell Jail
As Base for Burglaries
HASKELL — Three prisoners tified by the sheriff as Dan Earn-' Sheriff Pennington said Tues-
turned Haskell's recent-vintage est Griffin, 22. of Stamford, under day night he would file charges of
•1953', toil into a come-and-go af- grand jury indictment for bur- jailbreaking and burglary against
fair. Sheriff Bill Pennington re-glary, and Raymond T. 'Jackie' ,'
vealed Tuesday, Stevens, 19, of Anson-had ac all three early Wednesday morn-
The prisoners left on two in-cess to the “runaround" in the ing.
stances to burglarize three Has-jail so they could move from cell
kell business firms and batter to cell but still were locked up
open two safes, then returned to
the safety of the county jail by
the secret route, two of the pris-
oners have told officers in state-
Someone removed the bolts from
the steel plate and fixed it so
the plate appeared riveted from
the front like all others in the
cells.
Thursday about 130 a m. the
ments. The burglary loot included
$82.43 in cash, three cartons of
cigarets, plus candy, lunch meat three left the jail, went over the.
and other food. | fence around the jailyard and
The easy road to escape be- broke into Bill Wilson Motor Co.,
came known after one of the about 1′2 blocks away. They took
prisoners. James Talmadge $20 from an office and battered
Golden, 21, of Brevard, N.C., de- open the safe, getting $62.43
cided to go out and stay out Sun- more. Leaving by the same win-
day night. Ik was rearresteddow they had entered, the bur-
Tuesday at Stamford, glars stopped at the Indian Grill
The exit was made bv removing sandwich shop about 12-block from
54 bolts from a steel plate inthe the jail, broke in and got the
rear of his cell, then moving down cigarets, candy, and food, then
a service passageway which con- went back to jail and divided
tained plumbing pipes, then out- the money.
side through another door. The On Friday Stevens, who had
passagewav is between two cell been serving out a fine, was trans-
block sections, one facing north ferred to Jones County to face
charges there.
and the other south. Fronts of
each section are barred but the
backs are covered by solid steel
plates.
Removed Bolts
This is the way Sheriff Penning-
Saturday about midnight. Gol-
den and Griffin went out of the,
jail again and broke into Medford
Motor Co., three and a half blocks
from the jail They knocked the
knob off the safe but couldn't open
at "peeling"
ton relates the events:
Golden, in jail on forgery it. Also unsuccessful at “peeling":
charges', and the other two—iden- the safe, th®y gave up and return-
_______________i______ed to jail.
.... . At 11 p.m Sunday Golden left
WHFDF IT DAINED the jail and did not return Grif-
I ILK II KAINEL fin remained in jail. The escape
ABILENE
Municipal Airport
Total for Year
Normal for Year
2326 S. 3rd .......
AVOCA ........
ANSON .......-•
ASPERMONT ...
BAIRD ......
BIG SPRING
BRECKENRIDGE
CISCO .........
CLYDE .......
EASTLAND .-..
GOREE.........
HASKELL
KNOX CITY ......
LUEDERS .......
MORAN :........
MUNDAY .......
PUTNAM ........
RANGER ......
RISING STAR
RULE ........
STAMFORD .....
SWEETWATER ..
WEINERT .....
STATE RAINS
DEL R10
MINERAL WELLS
FORT WORTH
DALLAS .....
WICHITA FALLS
WINK ........
SHERMAN . ...
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
Daniel Tosses Hat
to
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ENVISIONED STUDENT UNION BUILDING
PROPOSED CHAPEL-AUDITORIUM FOR H-SU
BY H-SU BOARD
Ran 3rd in ‘56
Primary Effort
DALLAS, April 29 WP—W. Lee
O'Daniel, who parlayed hillbilly
music into a winning political
technique two decades ago.
jumped back into politics Tuesday
and announced he will be a can-
didate for governor.
He indicated government fi-
nancing, unemployment and seg-
regation will be -main planks
among his platform timber.
"Reckless spending has led us
back to the brink of deficit
spending at a time when those
who work for wages and salaries
are either unemployed or close
to it." O'Daniel said
"There shall never be any
Little Rocks in Big Texas," he
added
He will face Gov. Price Daniel
and at least two others in the
July Democratic primary
O'Daniel won his first term as
governor in 1938. He stumped the
state in a soundtruck with a string
A fh ■
W. LEE O'DANIEL
.. to hit campaign trail
----'----was discovered Monday, Tuesday•
morning Jones County Sher-
.....30 iff Dave Reves arrested Golden at ldil
.... 7.07 a drive-in in Stamford. Golden of- • —
-... 5 28 fered no resistance and was alone ■■■■ . ■ 1
===== Whip Jones Plans Okayed, Rising Star
.69 nington of Haskell picked him up, " f a mom .
.35 there about 4 p.m and returned TAIImIu Awaa w 1 * ■ ■ ■
Tr him to Haskell’s jail where the AICOTOO •
1 caxcome ceasy-go exit had beenDorni Added
::::: 20' When Golden lent the Sall Sun- left-uF/inamTinNEN bandars hoar che ITOJSCC Auteu
... .20 day, three other prisoners in ad-Abilene area Tuesday. Hail in!
_____100 dition to Griffin and Golden also northeastern Jones County ruin By KATHARYN DUFF red at 5 pm. Trustees and their
■ ere in the runaround and could ed some young wheat and oat Reporter-News Assistant Editor wives were luncheon guests of the
have escaped also, but claimed crops. Hardin - Simmons University University president and his wife,
they did not know of the breakout. A let-up from violent weather;trustees in an all-day meeting Dr. and Mrs Evan A. Reiff.
Sheriff Pennington Deputy is predicted bv the U.S Weather Tuesday put their tentative stamp Location of the two new build-
Garth Garrett and Texas Ranger Bureau for Wednesday and Thurs- of approv al on preliminary plans ings came in for considerable dis-
H. F ■ Buddy' . Hendricks of day, but light rains and show for two new buildings — a chapel cussion after Hunter asked trus-
dacksboro questioned Stevens in ers will continue, auditorium and a student union tees for their opinion — needed so
Hail was apparently heaviest in building — and on a major re' that plans can be made for on- been issued on the crash Tues
a strip some two miles wide and modeling job of a present campus campus drives. Trustees indicat-day night but Mr and Mrs
six to eight miles long between structure, Caldwell Fine Arts ed their present thinking is to lo-Knight were notified of their sons
Lueders and Avoca. Young wheat Building. cate the new chapel-auditorium on death
and oat crops, gardens, yards and Trustees also adopted an oper- the northeast corner of the cam-
Project Added
Crash Kills
let Pilot
RISING STAR (RNS) — A trip
to see his Rising Star parents in-
directly cost Lt. Allen Knight, 29.
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.....25
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111
.15
30 the Jones County jail Monday
3 night. Stevens signed a statement
-- admitting his part in the burgla-
Tr. ries and told of the activities of
others.
. Tuesday night the sheriff. Gar-
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TWISTERS STRIKE
bank playing “beautiful Texas" friends from all over Texas who
as his theme. , know my official record while
He won a second term as governor and United States sena-
governor in 1940,, was elected to tor, I hereby announce that I
succeed Morris Shepherd in the will permit my name to be en-
° *" _____as a candidate for governor
on the Democratic ticket.”
U.S. Senate in 1941, and retired tered
in 1946.
In 1956 he ran third behind
Price Daniel and Ralph Yarbor-
ough for the Democratic gover-
norship nomination. Daniel polled
624,833, Yarborough 460,661 and
O’Daniel 346,355.
He made his announcement in
a statement handed to newsmen
by his son, Pat O'Daniel.
“At the urgent request of my
his life Tuesday afternoon.
According to reports received
here, Lt. Knight, son of Mr. and
Mrs WiU A Knight, was killed
when his F-100 jet fighter crash-
ed shortly after takeoff from San
Antonio about 3 p.m.
No Air Force statement
had
O’Daniel said.
"The money has already been
contributed to pay the filing fees,"
he said.
Sen. Yarborough last night
ended speculation on whether he
would run for re-election or seek
the governorship himself. Yarbor-
ough said he chooses to remain
in the Senate.
Beaten Lueders
Coach Is Fired
By DON NORRIS
Reporter-News Staff Writer
LUEDERS - Trustees of Lue-
and oat crops, gardens, yards and S 4 - 1 the northeast corner of trie cam- Lt Knight was stationed at a ders Schools have voted not to
small trees were heavily dam ational budget for nectischool year pus - north of Caldwell Hall. Long Island, N. Y., naval base, renew the contract of football
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Plans for the new buddings able to the classroom area San Antonio to take " to Cali- d TheM43Y ote came April &. three
were presented by J C. Hunter, pr_|jminarv Toranin the stu. fornia, L’ Knight volunteered so days after the annual school truss
Jr , chairman of the board’s aPreliminary location for the stu: that be could see his parents and tee election in which two former
building and grounds committee. | dent union building s east M w as allowed to do so members were defeated for re-
The construction will be financ- defer Memoria Hall He flew into Abilene by com- election — one by a surprising
ed bv the school's $1.5 million ar „ ,, „ ,. „ . mercial airliner Saturday, visited write in vote.
The Caldwell Hall project is a his parents, and attended the Pio- Mosley, serving his second year,
new onenot included in the neer Church of Christ Sunday was the only member of the
original $1. 5 million expansion pro- morning. Dr. G. A. Dun,, Jr., min- faculty whose contract was not
build gram although it has been under ister of the church, drove him to renewed
rett and Ranger Byron Currin of
Vernon and Highway Patrol Sgt.
Frank Jircik of Haskell questioned
Golden who also made a uctascu
statement near Avoca. Hailstones measured
Griffin was to he questioned la-up to an inch in diameter and cov-
ter about his part cred the ground.
Lueders had an inch of rain with
the hail, and Avoca reported 50
Goree also had an inch.
Storms General
Munday, Goree and Stamford expansion campaign now under-
had light hail but no damage was way
reported
Most of the area showers struck
between 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. and
_____lasted 30 minutes or less
AI 1 An official .30 was recorded al
I A PA M‘" M 1 e Abilene, but a gauge in town show
■ II IXUIIII ■ WALD ed .70.
. | Slightly rising temperatures will
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of Jacksonville, said a tornado accompany showers, the Weather
Storm weary North and Central destroyed two houses there Tues. Bureau here said. The Abilene
Texas suffered another day of tor- day night Jacksonville police high Tuesday was 53 and the
nadoes, deluges, hail and destruc- said they knew of no injuries, low only three degrees lower than
tive winds Tuesday. And although The rains that came with the that , ....
Recent rains around Abilene
sent Fort Phantom Hill sloshing
over the spillway Tuesday, and
put enough water in the three
a tornado swept away seven storms added more flood threats
homes during the night, no in to the Trinity River in Central
juries occurred. Texas and to Northeast Texas
Tornadoes struck near Coman- streams
che in Hunt County northeast of Cause of Storms
Dallas, and near Wills Point, The Weather Bureau said the
southeast of Dallas storms were set off by warm.
$2.5 Ultimately
Ultimately — when the_______.. „ . ,,_ ^..„„„ ..... ...... ..
ings are completed and furnished consideration for some time. Dr. Abilene Monday and Lt. Knight
and when auxiliary work is done Reiff said flew to San Antonio by airliner to coach has never been solved Ef
Air-Conditioning
The sensational beating of the
pick up the jet [forts of law enforcement officers
His flight plan called for refuel and the Jones County grand jury
. » . ing at Albuquerque. N M He had failed to crack the stubborn wall
Tuesday would be in the vicinity tioning of the old fine arts build- planned to fly over his parents of silence surrounding the night
of $2.5 million. . 3 . inglaareland a threeistory $I71.200 Rising star home en route time attack. i COACH PAUL MOSLEY
Construction plans are drawn to addition bud onto the north. The Lt Knight was born Aug 4 Mosley was attacked as he went | out at Lueders
care for a student body of 3,000, addition would include a band and 1928, and was graduated from Ris- to investigate a disturbance at the' - - -
trustees were told by F. C. Olds, orchestra rehearsal room, class-ing Star High School in 1944 He school building where he and board’s action was an attempt 19
whose firm drafted the plans rooms, practice rooms and stu attended the University of Texas football team candidates had set quash feeling over the unsolved
along with Trippett and Gee. con dios. where he played football up a resident training camp beating by getting me out of
suiting engineers The preliminary plans on the No funeral arrangements, had Mosley s opinion when inter the country
First reports to trustees showed <chapel-auditorium call for two been made Tuesday night viewed Tuesday was that the Four school board members and
that early pledges to the $1.5 mil- "auditoriums" 'the big one to seat------------------------------------------------------------------------- Supt. Troy Denham were con-
over 2,000, the smaller to seat 208)
which would use a single stage.
The stage would he hetwren the
two and so arranged that both
auditoriums could use it at one
time by "partitioning" it.
The small auditonum would be ■ •
surrounded by “stages.” In addi-D==
tion to the big one at the front it a T
would have smaller stages on each IVI 1 I I
side Swivel seats would he in •
stalled so that various stage areas
on campus streets and parking
This particular project would in-
the work laid out before trustees elude remodeling and air-condi-
areas — the complete cost of all
Construction plans are drawn to addition built onto the north The
trustees were told by F C. Olds,1orchestra rehearsal room, class
city lakes to last Abilene 312 years
Fort Phantom Kirby and Lake lion campaign total $78,002. Of
Abilene combined held 28.78 bil- this, students have pledged $10,941
lion gallons and faculty and staff members.
Water stood 214 to three feet be- $24,604.
tacted Tuesday about the action
after word of the vote leaked
out
’ewer Jobless;
And in much of North Central moist air riding over a cold front
and East Texas, tornado-conscious which stalled over North Central
citizens fearfully eyed skies as Texas. The cold front, until it
black as night throughout the stopped moving, was expected to
morning and into the afternoon bring clearing skies—welcome aft-
There were witnesses to a wide er five straight days of turbulence,
ranging spectacle of slashing mainly in North Central and East
rains, damaging winds and some Texas pacity of 24 billion gallons Chapel, destroyed by fire last No-
hfail. Here was the picture in the Priv ately - owned Lytle Lake vember, has been earmarked by
In addition to the tornadoes state Tuesday stood about 12 inches below the trustees for the building fund | stamei M mat various stage areas WASHINGTON V—The govern essential if America is to he put
which struck the ground, funnels $100,000 Damage top of its spillway Tuesday ‘Just Beginning’ could De used. - ment issued a hurry-up report back to work.”
seemed to appear out of dark skies At Dow ning. a community eight _____________________________Dr Sierling Pric e of Abilene, The big auditonum would be Tuesday show ing a slight unem In a late tax development the N “and Mack
around Sherman and Dallas miles north of Comanche and 100 amP chairman of the board’s fund “megaphone” shape to prov ide plovment decline of 78 000 in Democratic Advisory Committee A "
Winds described as of tor nadir miles southwest of Fort Worth, a THF WFATHED drive committee, said the drive better vision for all and better AR Co proudest ceueeal called for a tax cut of more than of Nugent
is just beginning, acoustics.. Meany cited it as proof that the three billion dollars in the lowerVoting retain Mesler as pore
recession "continues to worsen." income prackeltar party coluneil Newsome ana Clitora Cowan.™
Meany stressed that employ- alm asked new manions of public Cowan and Moore verified that
spending and a further lowering this was the way the vote went
interest rates Supt. Denham declined to permit
in other developments inspection of the school board
1. Sen Lyndon Johnson of Tex-minutes
as. the Senate Democratic leader, Denham said that he recom-
told a news conference the ad-mended to the board that Mosley
ministration has been dragging its be rehired along with the other
feet He added teachers He also approved
2 The Committee for Economic Mosley s coaching methods he
Development, a private organiza- sard.
tion made up mostly of business- Board President McCown, who
men, said that if the economy operates a cable tool pulling ma-
drags in April beiow its March chine service, said ‘‘I don't think
levels, an income tax cut would it (the attack) on the conch enter-
be indicated, ed into it 'the board's action).
3 Vice President T. 0 Yntema It didn't as far as I am per
low the spillway at Lake Abilene . As a running start on the build-
Lake Kirby, which hasn’t caught ing project, the school has been
any water from the recent rains, granted $100,000 from the Baptist
has about two billion gallons and General Convention of Texas In
1 a capacity of 2.85 billion addition, the approximately $150,-
Phantom, when full, has a ca 000 from insurance on Behrens
force demolished a garage on the tornado destroyed seven farm
Joe Schmid Jr farm near Perry homes and their outbuildings
in Central Texas Tuesday night Monday night. The homes were
It ripped up concrete blocks and owned by Houston Loudermilk, aid
THE WEATHER
acoustics
u.s DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE Dr D. M. Wiggins of Lubbock Stone from old Behrens Chapel
u WEATHER BUREAU presented the operational budget would be used in construction.
— ----- 4 ।------- .----------—.....—. wan Mosul, clouds Wednesans and for next school year. It totals $1,- The chapel - auditorium would ment figures failed to improve as
a number of trees. Jim Callison, J H. Hanson, Cas- Thursday with occasional rains a few 926,587 with the largest item, $1, have a total of 38,700 square feet S 4 A or to
Hail several inches in diameter sey Brinson, Walter Earl Belyew, Isen-dnvs. "55 meh 133,187, going for general and ed-of floor spare much as usual from March to
pounded the Waxahachie area. R. V. Lesley and Jack Vineyard clouds and cool Wednesday and Thur- ucational expenses.
The Weather Bureau Tuesday The houses were swept completely thunderstorms maimia south portions and A plea for more money for fa-
night said a line of thunderstorms away. Severely damaged were the WAN TA Menx.ckrexiwede: culty was voiced by Dr Wiggins,
extended from the Waxahachie- homes of J. V. Lee and Jim Wil- few showers Pecos Valley eastward and former dean of the college and
Waco area into Southeast Texas, kerson Damage was in excess of MEISP TEXAS - Monets esouas and cool former president of Texas Tech-
Showers fell throughout most of $100,000 “ounersi-naneentmuerstornm thmaintterm nological College,
the Northeast part of the state. In the northern part at Hunt -5OUIT CENTRAL TEXAS —Mostly
The ground observer corps at County, a tornado ripped along dos Wednesday and Thureaxanith
Summerfield, about 10 miles east the Celeste-Kinston highway It RANFF coin-anas
toppled telephone and power lines Tues a.m.
on both sides of the road. High
Bowling Alley
The student union building
See H-SU, Pg. 9-A, Col. •
April, a fact noted in the report
'from the Commerce Department.
Both also noted that the rate of
unemployment, seasonally adjust
d. increased from 7 to 75 per
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Amusements
winds damaged much at the north
era part of the county, with trees
on
on
Tues. p. m.
13
Oil news
Sports
* ...
# E
51
SECTION B
Obituaries ...
Women’s news .,
Editorials ......
Comics.......
Radio, TV logs
Ferm and markets
4 torn nut by their roots, TV aerials
4 toppled and barns damaged
10, 11 Witnesses viewed a tornado four
- miles north of Wills Point, but it ....___
" j did no damage Winds unroofed a tomte En
4 barn and blew windows from three last —
... S houses in the rural area. Gardens sST5
a See WEATHER, Pg. 9 A, Col. 1
53
"When bananas are scarce, the
price of bananas is high," he told
the board “Good college profes-
sors are now scarce and we need
money to pay for good ones we
need and for good ones on our
staff we need to keep.”
$75,000 Granted
The grant of $75,000 more for
WHAT IS
VACATION-PAC?
cent of the labor force, which in-
cludes both the employed and
those looking for work The labor
force increases at this time of
1.0 - faculty and $10,00* more for staff
help was voted unanimously —
... x=. with' many trustees voicing the
.temperatures, same date wish it could be greater
Mat last maw Til sunrise oday W. P. Wright, board president.
Barometer remoins M’s p.m: 28.28. was in charge of the meeting
/Relative humidity at 9 p.m.: 74 Dr which opened at 10 a.m. and clos-
51 12:00
High and low temperatures for 24 hours
i p m 53 and se-deerees-
year, 1
A Special Service rendered by The employment figures came
The Abilene Reporter-News to out on a day when there was
reJ^^here 1^ much new talk of tax cuts none
of The Reporter-News saved of it encouraged by the White
while they ore vacationing and House
reed them when they return Meany was one of several call-
to learn what has taken place, ing for
to keep abreast the local news ,
. . . without additional charge;
papers pieced to e handy ptoe- and extend unemployment corn
a reduction. He said:
"Immediate action to improve
Ho beg.
pensation and to cut taxes on low
and middle income individuals is ly and decisively.
Little to Say
For the most part, the board
members shied away from discus-
sion of the action.
Newly elected board President
Bill McCown cast the tie-breaking
vote in favor of not renewing
Mosleys $4,800 a year contract.
Members voting with Met own
not to renew the contract were
Delbert Moore and J. C. Wills.
of the Ford Motor Co. told a Sen- sonally concerned."
ate-House Economic subcommit- McCown said he "hoped" that
tee the government should sus- Mosley’s leaving would halt any
pend its tax collections for two on “feeling” over the unsolved at-
three months. tack.
Yntema said a temporary tax McCown and Moore expressed
cut would end the recession quick-__
See LUEDERS, Pg. 9 A, Col. 3
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