The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 26, 1958 Page: 4 of 24
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FIGHTS FOR HOUSE — Mrs. Cleola Headly, 28, formerly of Kansas City, Mo.,
and her son, Eddie Gene, 5, are shown in front of the four room house in Hous-
ton, Tex., which her husband bought for her from part of his proceeds of a
burglary of the First State Bank of Arma, Kan. She plans to fight the bank's
suit for title to the $4,000 property. (A)
THREE ISSUES INVOLVED
Alaska Will Vote Today
On Statehoo d Question
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP)—A rec-emergency.
ord Alaska vote is expected Tues if statehood is approved, the
day as residents of the big terri- way will be cleared for the ad-
tory decide whether the Land of mission of the first new state of
the Midnight Sun will become the the Union since New Mexico and
A A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
A Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Morning, August 26, 1958
Suspect in Gun
Running Nabbed
Vera Will Open
School Sept. 1;
Faculty Complete
VERA (RNS) — Ths Vera can-
GILMER, Tex. (AP)Federal several other weapons and a
quantity of ammunition.
Two agents of the US Alcohol P m
Tax Division came here from
authorities took custody Monday
of a Mexican national who admit-
ted a second thwarted effort to
run guns to Cuban rebels
Sheriffs officers seized the pris-
oner. New York-born Antonio del
Conde. 32. and a truckload of
weapons dumped a short distance
from a highway 10 miles northeast
of here Sunday night.
Del Conde, a balding, soft-
spoken man who wears rimless
spectacles, readily told his captors
he is one of 35 Cuban sympathizers
seized March 27 in the Gulf of
Mexico off Brownsville, Tex , in
a boat carrying $20,000 worth of'
contraband arms.
A resident of the area told police
he spotted two men caching heavy
boxes in some brush about 5:30
Marshall to take del Conde to
Jefferson, Tex.
It was not determined whether
federal authorities would file
fresh charges against the prisoner
or merely move to cancel his
probation.
As one of 34 convicted in the
Brownsville case last May, del
Conde is under a two-year sus-
pended sentence for conspiring to
violate the National Firearms Act.
Del Conde told officers and a
reporter he bought the guns in
St Louis and was delivering them
to an unnamed confederate in
Houston, Tex.
p.m. yesterday. Del Conde,
nabbed as he warily turned back
from the guarded spot two hours
later, admitted he was one of the
pair. The other escaped
Sheriff's deputies gathered up
108 British-made automatic Sten
rifles, four 50-carliber anti-tank
rifles, a 20-mm machine gun.
TO TAKE OFF
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DRUGGIST
Lowder, Bible history; M J. Kir-
by, science and superintendent.
McLain will also serve as band
director.
Lunchroom employes will be
Mrs. N. B. Brown and Mrs. Alma
Rabe. Ferman Dowd will be in
charge of the building and drive
- the Cottonwood bus route. The
solidated school will start Monday. Vera board has not yet elected
Sept. 1 with buses making their the driver for the Coleconor route,
regular run. School will start at Holidays to be observed this
8:50 a.m. and dismiss at 3:30 year in the school calendar are:
. Two days for Thanksgiving, five
Lunchroom will be open and days for Christmas, New Year
charge for meals this year will Day, two days for Easter, one
be 30 cents for grade school and for Oil Belt Teachers Meeting.
25 cents for junior and senior May 1. School will dismiss May
high school. 1#-
The Vera school faculty is com-
plete Elementary teachers are Protests Decision
Mrs. Edith Russell, Mrs. Braden
McWhorter, Mrs. Cora Mae Allen,
and Guy McLain. High school
teachers are Mrs. T. M Bow-
doin, English-math; Harold Beck,
coach-social science: Mrs. J. E.
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(API—Movie exhibitors here are
protesting the government's deci-
sion to permit commercial TV
broadcasting. They say TV will
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Final Tabulation
Given on Election
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A final tabulation by the Texas
Election Bureau Monday showed
Judge Robert W. Hamilton of El
Paso nominated for a Supreme
Court seat by 49,319 votes.
He received 294,258 to 244,930
for Edwin Smith, Houston lawyer.
The bureau estimated that about
7,000 votes remained to be counted.
The Supreme Court contest was
the only state race left unsettled
in the July 26 first primary.
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pick nominees for 20 places in the
first state Senate and 40 seats in
the first state House. All other
offices under statehood, including
judgeships, will be filled by ap-
pointment by the governor.
The voting will be in 24 election
districts from Ketchikan in the
southeast to Point Barrow in the
north, and from Eagle on the
Canadian border to Attu at the
tip of the Aleutian Island chain.
The Aleutian Islands election
district alone is about 1,500 miles
long.
The election districts span four
time zones — from Pacific Stand-
ard in the southeast to Bering
has been lowered for the first Standard in the far West. Polls
time in Alaska to include 19- and will be open from 8 3 m to 8 p.m.,
has been since the United States 20-year-old residents. The total local time.
purchased the vast Northern land number of eligible voters is esti-
from Russia in 1867. mated at 60,000.
The territory has a population have been counted to know wheth-
er statehood has been approved
or rejected. .
49th state.
Arizona entered in 1912. A presi
At some 297 polling places dential proclamation creating the
throughout Alaska, voters will ap-new state is scheduled for late
prove or reject three propositions December or early January, if
on which admission depends, each of the propositions is ap-
Each of the three must be ap- proved Tuesday.
proved by a majority of voters if Between 35,000 and 40,000 votes
Alaska is to become a state, as are expected to be cast, including
provided in the admission act as many as 2.000 absentee ballots
passed by Congress in June and
signed by President Eisenhower
in July.
A negative vote of any one of
the propositions will make void
the admission act—and leave Alas-
ka a territorial possession, as it
that will not be counted until a
week after the election. Alaska's
record vote is 28.903, cast in a
general election two years ago.
The voting age for the election
It probably will be 1 a m. EDT
Wednesday before enough votes
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The first of the three proposi-‘
tions is simple. it calls for voters of about 215,000, including an esti-
to say yes or no to the question, mated 50,000 servicemen and de-
"Shall Alaska immediately be ad- pendents most of whom lack per-
mitted into the Union as a state?' manent resident status and are
The second deals with the bound- not qualified to vote.
aries of the new state—and would However, a heavy vote is ex-
accept the present territorial lim-
its as the boundaries of the 49th
state. The third proposition calls
for acceptance by Alaskans of
103,350,000 acres of public land for
the state, and would authorize
presidential withdrawal of military
land reserve in time of national
pected from the over-19 age group
among Alaska's 15,000 citizens of
native descent — Eskimo, Aleuts
and Indians.
The statehood referendum was
directed in the admission law
signed by President Eisenhower in
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SHOTGUNS
SELECTIONS
July.
Most estimates on the eve of
voting were that statehood would
pass by at least a 2-1 majority.
The apparent minority opposing
admission fear higher taxes to
pay the cost of operating a state
government.
A primary election will be held
at the same time as the special
statehood balloting. Candidates for
the first state general election
Nov. 2S will be nominated at the
primary.
Alaskan primaries are peculiar,
wide-open affairs. The same ballot
carries the names of candidates
for all parties, and cross voting
between parties is permitted.
There are no contests among
Republicans in the primary for
nomination to the state and na-
tional races — for two U.S. Senate
seats, one seat in the U.S. House,
$2,500 Bond Set
In Marijuana Case
Bond for a 43-year-old Negro
woman charged with possession of
marijuana was set at $2,500 Mon-
day.
Justice of the Peace H. F. Long
set that amount at a hearing for
Beatrice Willis Jackson, arrested
Saturday morning after county
and state officers raided her
home.
Officers said they found seven
marijuana cigarets wrapped in
tinfoil and three $1 bills inside the
woman's blouse. The raid was
made by three deputy sheriff's
and two Liquor Control Board of-
ficers.
Freak Automobile
Mishap Kills Youth
ALEXANDRIA, Va (AP) - A
freak automobile accident Monday
took the life of Eugene John Mik
kelsen Jr., 19.
Police said Eugene and two oth
er youths were riding around in a
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Backing up, he found him lying
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