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78TH YEAR, NO. 86
Abilene Report
ArmsSUNDAY
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
Associated Press (AP)
ABILENE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1958 —EIGHTY PAGES IN SIX SECTIONS'
MISS AMERICA CROWNED — Miss America of 1959, Miss Mary Ann Mobley
of Brandon, Miss., is crowned Saturday night by the outgoing queen of American
beauties, Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur, as the climax to the annual pageant. (AP
Wirephoto
BALKS AT ORDER
Board Rejects
Negro Students
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) Apparently, the question before
— The Charlottesville School
Almond and the other conferees
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
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Chinese Offer
1 ‘
Velcomed
NOT SEYMOUR
4 of 5 Area
| Towns Okay
Water Plan
g HASKELL (RNS) - Four towns
A were for and one was against the
i $4,800,000 North Central Texas
■ Water Authority bond election
I held Saturday.
I Haskell, Munday. Rule and
I Goree approved the proposal.
I Seymour—by a 9-to-1 landslide-
■ turned thumbs down on the plan-
■ ned project to build a 25,001 acre
I feet reservoir.
I Seymour voted 48-for and 453-
1 against to turn down the bond
■ proposal. They also voted heavily
against authorization of contracts
between member towns for pur-
chase of .water for 30 cents per
1.000 gallons. The vote was 54 for
and 405 against.
BOB BARKER
... show’s emcee
Famed Quiz
Show Slated
At WT Fair
Communist
Sho
‘Break’ Possible
ins In Potent Crisis
Stay Silent
WASHINGTON (AP)—President would prejudice the rights of Na-
| Eisenhower mov ed quickly Satur- tionalist China.
„day to exploit what seemed to be Officials hoped this would not be
TAIPEI, Formosa (AP)—Com-a face saving way out for all con-a bar to resuming the talks. Its
munist shore guns opposite Que- cerned in the grimly foreboding main purpose was to keep Nation-
moy remained silent Sunday in a China crisis. The White House is-alist President Chiang Kai-shek
lull that had stretched to 35 hours, sued a statement warmly welcom-from complaining that the meet-
Nationalist defense spokesmen ing an offer by Premier Chou En-ings. might undercut his position,
said. lai to resume U.S.-Red China talks Repeated also in Saturday’s
It was the longest spell of quiet on safeguarding the peace, statement was the U.S. attitude
since the Communist Chinese hit The White House statement said regarding Red China's claims on
Quemoy with more than 41,000 U.S. Ambassador Jacob Beam Formosa and the offshore islands
shells in two hours Aug. 23. “stands ready promptly to meet" ajso held by Chiang. It said Red
A Defense Ministry spokesman at Warsaw with Red China’s am-China need not renounce these
said there had been no Commu- bassador there. Wang Ping-nan claims in making any pledge not
nist artillery action throughout Thus, the United States, sought to use force. .
Saturday and none up to 10:10 to respond softly to the first break The statement was issued fol-
a m Sunday, in the weeks long Formosa crisis lowing an extraordinary meeting
r, j . , which has threatened to engulf the of National Security Council meet-
The absence of the Red artillery United States in war with Red ings at the White House. This ses-
act on appeared to bearout a ra- China, if not ultimately the Soviet sicn was scheduled as a luncheon
dio Peiping broadcast thatCom- Union. for Eisenhower and Secretary of
munist troops in mainland Fukien U.S.-Red China talks previously state Dulles. But after Chou’s of.
voluntarily suspended bombard-had been held at Geneva in neu-fer to talk peace became known,
ment Sept. 4 to give Chiang Kai-tral Switzerland. Saturday’s move the meeting was expanded to in-
shek chance for reflect ion proposed holding them, behind the clude other members of the Secur-
Red China s Premier Chou En- Iron Curtain for the first time ity Council.
lai has also proposed resumption But the White House statement These were Secretary of the
of talks with the United States and emphasized (hat the United States Treasury Anderson, Secretary of
the White House has said it wel- adheres to its position that it will Defense McElroy and Gen. Nathan
coined the offer. agree to nothing in the talks which F. Twining, chairman of the Joint
But the Nationalists here re- ------------:--------——---------Chiefs of Staff.
main wary in the face of reports' - I Vice President Nixon was ab-
from a military spokesman that Gamin FAP
more powerful Communist nasal Iidiliilil |
vessels have steamed toward For-
will be mosa Strait with a threat to Na- ।
tionalist offshore islands and their icsamom lsaa
nuns NICE
"Truth or Consequences." the
NBC-TV comedy-quiz program,
will be presented as the special
opening night free midway show
at the West Texas Fair on Satur-
day, Sept. 13. %
John Womble, president of the
. . , fair association, Saturday formal-
for Sept. 11 in Munday to work ly announced the contract had
out revised figures for the four- been signed.
Miss Mississippi, Mary Ann Mo- town membership. .
bley, a, brown-haired Southern Authority engineers and bond
belle from Brandon, Saturday company, . . .
night won the Miss America title tend in an effort to work out cost way. ’ 1 There also were unofficial re-
for 1959. - of the roaledodengn/or the project Bob Barker is master of cere- ports here that U S. warships w ill HAMLIN : RNS) - A. G. Hes-
A 21-year-old senior at the Um- votes ™r ways for EN P monies for “Truth or Consequent hecin escorting Nationalist sunniv ^ „, near Tuvede was critical-
versity of Mississippi, the new Haskell—on bond issue, 493 for es," which is produced by Ralph
queen hopes for a career in tele- 15 against: on water con “ ’ ' .........“
vision. She beat 51 other beauties and 15 against, on
Mississippi
Miss Wins
Beauty Title
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (AP)
Board, under virtual order to ad- was whether the board should go
mit some Negroes to white schools into Judge Paul's court Monday,
this fall, has rejected the appli- when he is expected to sign an
cations of all 30 Negroes to those injunction against the Warren
schools, board and superintendent, and ar-
The action was made known by gue that the local board has no
an attorney for the National Assn. power to assign children.
for the Advancement of Colored The president of the Harnson-
People Saturday a few hours aft burg chapter of the NAACP, Mrs.
er Gov. J. Lindsay Almond met Willie C. Harris, said the Warren
secretly on the school crisis with County Negro children would be
14 state legal experts, legislators "briefed ' Monday and, if the
and officials of a segregationist white high school is open,
organization, appear for entrance Tuesday.
appear for entrance Tuesday.
It was understood that the main
topic of the secret conference in
Richmond was the Warren Coun., cermy
ty school situation and whether : SECTION A
the State Pupil Placement Board news’
should intercede against a feder- SECTION 8
al court order forbidding the coun- City Hall Beat
ty's school board from denying Editorials .......
Negroes admission to white Form .......
schools because of race . Book news ......
The order of U. S. Dist. Judge Bridge oi . „
John Paul, issued Friday, was di- yen i ure ase
rected specifically against the
Warren County School Board and
school superintendent Under Vir-
ginia law, all pupil assignment
NEWS INDEX
Amusements
SECTION C
Women’s news
Fashions
SECTION D
Sports ......
Radio, TV logs
Their action removed them
from the Authority, leaving four
members. However, other towns
in the area reportedly have indi-
cated they would like to become
Authority members.
Authority president W. R. John-
son of Haskell called a meeting
to win scholarships and prizes
worth 1150.000.
Judges picked her after narrow-
ing the field to five finalists in
the competition that started Mon-
day. The girls, from 46 states.
Alaska, Canada, Hawaii. New
The hour-long show
representatives will at- presented at 9 p.m. in the outdoor ,
representatives will at theater on-the independent mid- supply lines.
sent because of an out-of-town en-
gagement
Discussion of the Far East sit-
uation took up a good chunk at
Eisenhower’s 6’1 hours in the cap-
ital — an interruption of his va-
cation at Newport. R.I.
The White House said the Se-
.begin escorting Nationalist supply ter of near Tuxedo was critical- curity Council considered meas-
vessels to the embattled Quemoy ly injured and a Hamlin couple ures which would flow from the
Edwards of “This Is Your Life- group sometime next week was hospitalized with injuries re-U.S. policy statement made last
fame | Official quarters would not con- ceived in a two-car smashup on Thursday at Eisenhowers New.
South Central Avenue here Sat-Port vacation headquarters. But
Rear Adm. Liu Hoh, a Defense urday evening particular attention was paid. "
Ministry spokesman, said Sunday Hester, an elderly man, was said, to Chou’s, expressed reads
morning only that, "we don’t traveling alone when his car and ness to resume the ambassadorial
know anything about American an automobile occupied by Mr talks.
navy ships escorting our vessels and Mrs Joe Stewart met al. The U.S. Red China talks include
toward Quemoy" most headon Hesters car swerv- ed more than 20 meetings at
Co.ncid.ng with the end of two M to the rights" wandtruck in Senmaan! Thep broken dir d. Dec.
weens of heavy shelling was th thoirishsiedarP received a bad 12 when Johnson was shifted from
.Giris E. Leilas. U. S. Waif Fore head cut and her husband had a anch Edward saruin ccde hamtea
high-level conferences. LeMay has right eye. Hester received a.brain But the Red Chinese balked at
Indication just what coma denied that the current crisis was concussion All are at Hamlin
Total project cost for five cities consequences • that be is the reason for his trip.Memorial Hospital.
tract. 500 for and 113 against. ,
Rule — bond, 102 for and 68 For the show here, JO contest- firm the reports.
against; contract, 98 for and 72 ants will be picked at random
against, from the audience at the fair-
Munday — bond, 214 for and grounds, with prizes to be award-
31 against, contract, 207 for and ed to all contestants.
from the audience at the fair-
32 against. Sample question that Barker
, u . : . Goree - bond, 62 for and 26 might ask a contestant would be
would York City, Chicago and the Dis- against; contract, 62 for and 26 “What would you have if you had
trict of Columba competed in against. | a hat with wheels on it?" The cor----------------
swim suit, talent and evening A majority vote was required rect answer is "a roller derby,” scheduled arrival Sunday of Gen.
gown. .. . . in each city for passage. How- and if the contestant dosen’t know
The new Miss America of 1959 ever, it was pointed out that Sey- it then he'd have to take the "con-
takes the scepter from Miss Mari- mour’s action does not defeat the sequences."
lyn Van Derbur of Denver, Colo., entire measure.
Sample question that
Barker
10-11 Miss America for 1958.
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The new Miss America meas-was estimated it $4,700,000, in-
,given by the list of props the pro-
ures 3414-22-35 and was crowned eluding land for reservoir site, director has asked the
before a nationwide television au- dam, pumping and filtering plants fair association to provide
dience and a capacity Convention and pipeline systems serving the They include. 14 inflated inner
wall crowd of 17,006. towns tubes, a live white mouse, preny
blonde, brunette and red-head,
raincoat, showercap, 3 lemon
meringue pies, bucket of water.
Second place went to Miss Iowa. Proposed site for the darn and
Jeanne Lucille MacDonald, 20, of reservoir is on Miller Creek,
powers are- lodged with the State
Pupil Placement Board — which ______-_________________________-
had rejected the transfer appli-_____. _
cations of the Warren County Ne- FT _C • L TAFIn L D 1 1
Fo:Texans Sigh With Relief
Ames, who received a $3,000 about 12 miles east of Munday.
scholarship. .Authority bonds will be retired ing.ponm paddle, revolver
Among the 10 semi-finalists was with revenue from the sale of BE Pac ladv s shoes house
Miss Texas, Mary Nell Hendricks, water, supplemented with an ad el and room, lady ‘ oes.
22, of Arlington, valorem tax.
dresses, slips, girdles, corsets.
NIKOLAI BULGANIN
... really on vacation
As Storm Breaks Its Date
Acheson Blisters
Far East Policy
this, calling it a U.S. trick to de-
mote the status of the talks below
the ambassadorial level
Beam was then appointed last
July to get the talks started again.
He is understood to have tele-
phoned Wang twice in Warsaw
last month. But the only reported
response was that Wang had re-
ferred the matter to Peiping.
The seeming break in the crisis.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former He accused President Eisenhow shifting ground from guns to ne-
Secretary of State Dean Acheson er and Secretary of State Dulles gotiations. came when matters
blisteringly accused the Eisenhow: of surrounding U .S.-China " policy could hardly have been worse: -
balloons and brassieres. uumteIgLy avcuocu we .....------of surrounding i n.v nrna policyc announced full
During the show, 16-year-old er administration Saturday of with ..seereiy designed to keep Red China just announced „
Sandy Smith of Hawley, official drifting without friends or allies with "secrecy designed Keep mobilization, the Soviet Union
sweetheart of the 1958 fair, will be into war with Red China everyone guessing pressed readiness to help all it
Acheson said the administration Acheson, who served in former could, the U.S. 7th Fleet, was
apparently has decided to defend President Harry S. Truman’s Dem-beefed up under a new policy of
Nationalist held Quemoy even ocratic Cabinet, called in a state-convoying Nationalist ships seek-
though this leads to world war, ment for inclusion .in Eisenhower ing to run the Red blockade
He said the administration has Dulles conferences of ' some cool around Nationalist-held Quemoy,
“unwisely maneuvered itself, with headed friends’ from other coun- and Chiang s forces were reported
the help of Chiang Kai shek, into tries" that might be affected by authorized to bomb any mainland
a situation of which it has lost any conflict with I Communist air base from which Red aircraft
control." • China. launched attacks.
introduced to fairgoers.
Dates of the fair are Sept. 13
20.
By FRANK N. MANITZAS were headquarters for disaster unexpected worry here—An ex
VICTORIA (AP) — Tropical centers They were ready here pectant mother needed a doctor
storm Ella broke a date with a But Ella didn’t show in full ewas oun quid
lot of jittery Texans early Satur dress. She hit the coat in the DaiGII CraHaied.
day. There were no wails of dis- early morning hours, spreading Kalliall DCdliCTCO,
appointment. dark-moisture filled cloud, across, - h
| Ella turned out—as predicted—the state. The Weather Bureau’s One Inch BownpOUT
to be a lady with no malice in prediction that her chances were "He "TCI V"*P
her eye. slim to become a full fledged hur 1 D.I A.s
ricane proved true, in Ballinger Area
"Most of the people were
, "She was disorganized from the scared," said Maj. George Filly A smattering of half inch or
start. The storm 4 didn’t have a State Guard battalion command- less showers peppered the Abilene
enough time—or force—to get or-er. He and his staff helped Red area Saturday afternoon and
ganized when she came past
Cuba."
State climatologist Richard
Blood commented in Austin:
I This city and five others—Port
Lavaca, Galveston, Port Arthur,
Brownsville and Corpus Christi
‘Mr. B’ of ‘B and K’
Loses Presidium Rank
LONDON (AP) Radio Moscow rank, listed 44th among the 60
said Saturday former Soviet Pre members of the new Council of
mier Nikolai Bulganin had been Ministers. • -
removed from the Soviet Commu-T. In June, he dropped out of sight
nist Party P t dium the but Khrushchev said June 12 Bul
The broadcast also said the 21st | ganin had undergone a serious op-
Communist Party Congress will eration and would return to work
in a week. •
Last Aug. 15. he was demoted
be held Jan 27, 1959
The two decisions — to drop
Bulganin and to hold the party
congress - were reached Friday again, named chairman of
during a Central Committee meet- Council of the National Economy
ing of the Communist Party of in the remote northern Caucasus
the Soviet Union, the broadcast town of Stavropol
y said. 1 There was some talk that the
Bulganin was ousted last March jovial, bearded "Mr. B’ of the
27 as premier and replaced by mous "B and K” - Bulganin and
Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Com- Khrushchev — political tourist
munist party boss.
Four days later, it was
ed he had been made chairman .
ef the state bank with cabinet the Black Sea resort area
he
fa
team had been sent to the area wu
report- help him recover his health. The
Stavropol region is not far from
Cross workers and volunteers at night and promised to continue
school buildings here house about intermittently Sunday. •
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350 persons. They were evacuated Brought on by hurricane Ella,
from low ground areas in Port the showers were generally one
Lavaca, Bloomington, Seadrift and or two miles in diameter and 10
Port O’Connor. * to li miles apart, the Abilene
The‘story was similar at the Weather Bureau reported
other headquarters A low-pressure system still bung L
Mrs. George Filley, who was in over south Texas H
charge of the nurses, found an In Abilene only a trace of rain-
----------------------------------------- fall .was measured by 10 pm,
but towns in the area reported
THE WEATHER
much more
A one inch downpour fell near
of
v s DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE Paint Rock. 18 miles south
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY (40-mile-------n ' ...
radius) - Cloudy and mild with scatter- town Ballinger received 50
Sandler: sour sundand nmR %. iR other parts of town got only a
Wesr TEXAS - Locally heavy rain trace of moisture .
east of Pecos River Sunday Otherwise Ovalo’s 80 1 as the greatest
considerable cloudiness through Monday t
1 with a few showers and thundershowers amount registered in a town pro-
No important temperature changes
TEMPERATURES Per:’
1:00 Sat Other rains reported were 20
2 00: so at Tuscola. .30 at Buffalo Gap,
.25 at Clyde, 20 at Winters, 40
Ballinger. Some places in down-
' and
Sat,, m.
400.1-
at Rising Star. .35 at Baird, .30 at
Eastland, and 10 at Stamford
About 70 was measured at the
Bernice Brookreson place four
— jow 1.°%aihours chains , miles southwest of Buffalo Gap.
4 “ 4 Only a trace fell at Sweetwater,
. although there were reports of a
1-Ammisanq Win SE "fair" shower further south of
- “' Sweetwater. .
— High and now
to p.m. 85. and 71
High and low
he 96 and 66.
Enol n er
Humidity at 9 p.m. 1 89 per cent
RAILROAD SHOPS GUTTED BY FIRE — Fire fan-
ned by brisk winds caused extensive damage. Satur-
day to the Texas and Pacific Railroad shops in Texar-
kana. From 60 to 70 per cent of the 800-foot-long Wirephoto)
car shop was destroyed Also destroyed were 20 to 25
cars, many loaded with cargo, inside the shop There
was no explanation of how the fire started. (AP
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