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Abilene Reporte
rmng MORNING
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
178TH YEAR, NO. 171
Associated Press (AP)
ABILENE, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1958—FORTY-FOUR PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 15e
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Cal VI
Gambler, Wife
Slain at Phoenix
PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP)—A big-
time Las Vegas gambler-hotel
owner and his wife were found
murdered Wednesday, their
throats slashed with a carving
knife.
Greenbaum was president and a
major owner of the 11-story Rivi-
had interests in the Nevada city's
El Cortez Hotel and Las Vegas
Club.
TOO MUCH
TURKEY IS
TOO MUCH
PITTSBURGH, Pa. -
Magistrate E. N. Johnson
startled Pittsburgh woman-
hood Wednesday.
He advised Mrs. Catherine
Green that leftover Thanks-
giving turkey served, for din-
ner five days in succession is
Will Lose Part
Of Its Facilities
WASHINGTON ' AP ‘—The Army | principally the -Sergeant Bombard- -
won President Eisenhower's ap-ment Missile.
proval Wednesday to keep the bal-The Army also will keep control
listic missile agency at Huntsville.
Ala., with its brilliant team of
- --------------------- tus, ."wen .vuuuja------
of equipment at the jet propulsion
laboratory which deals primarily__
with military operations and weap- -
ons development—
In a statement announcing his
executive order, Eisenhower said
space age scientists.
Bui. as a compromise, Eisen-
bower ordered the Army to turn
beyond man's endurance, :___
Catherine said her husband,
James, threatened her with
an automatic pistol when she
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”! just had enough ” he
The body of Gus Greenbaum, 64, - He sold the Flamingo in 1954 for
once known as the kingpin of book-
makers in Phoenix, was discov-
a reported, nine million dollars. He
had been described as al. associ-
WATCHES BODY REMOVED — Mrs. Loviest Wilson Wade, 33, calmly picks her
teeth while watching attendants carry away the body of C H. Bates, 59. She re-
ported to a deputy sheriff a few minutes earlier that she had shot Bates. (Staff
Photo by Don Hutcheson)
She re-
rambling ranch home. In a near-
and her head almost severed, lay
his wife, Bess, 50.-
NEAR 'SUNRISE SERENADE'
Calm Negress Reports
She Shot, Killed Man
By DON NORRIS
Reporter-News Staff Writer
- Loviest-tWilsoo-tadca33,, said
— Wednesday that before- shooting
Columbus H. Bates, 59. to death,
she told him: “I’d rather go to
my mama’s funeral than my
own.”
She was charged with murder
but told investigating officers that
she shot Bates because he had
threatened her.
Bates, operator of a barbecue
stand at 402 Cottonwood St., was
shot about 2 p.m. Wednesday near
the Sunrise Serenade, a Negro
cafe operated by Mrs. Wade.
Both parties are Negroes.
Shot 5 Times
Deputy Sheriff Torn Edwards
said that Bates was shot twice
in the upper right arm, once in
the right cheek, once in the lower
right chin and once under the
left (boulder, a total of five
except the one under the left
shoulder entered from the front.
At entered fromthe rear, he said.
The defendant surrendered a
pearl-handled .25 automatic pistol
to officers, and identified it as the
death weapon.
Justice of the Peace Henry F.
Long, with whom the murder
charge was filed, set bond in the
case at $2,500. - .
Mrs. Wade gave her address as
438 N. 8th St. The cafe she op-
erates and the scene of the shoot-
ing was at 327 Cherry St. I
About 2:15 p.m. Wednesday,
Mrs. Wade walked into the offices
of the sheriff’s department and
cooly informed them; “I’ve just
shot a man.”
Found Near Cafe
. She was accompanied back to
the scene by Deputies John Dumis
and Edwards who were followed
Bates’ body was lying face
down about 10 yards from the
potbieSk-SoEVESe the salty
Edwards said a search of the
body showed Bates was unarmed
He was clutching a set of keys in
his right hand. In his pockets
were two billfolds and a bank
sack containing a few nickels.
The defendant discussed freely
the circumstances of the shooting
with bystanders while sitting in
an officer’s car.
She said that Bates came to the
place and wanted to talk to her
and during the conversation ad-
vised her that Abilene “wasn’t
big enough for both of us.”
Detective Capt. Orme Moore-
head said the bodies were found
by a maid and that the murders
apparently occurred early Tues-
day night. Nothing had been stolen
from the house and no motive was
immediately known, police said.
The blood-stained carving knife
was found at Mrs. Greenbaum’s
feet. A sheet of plastic, blood-spat-
tered. lay nearby. Police believe
it was used to keep fingerprints
off the knife handle.
- Detectives said Greenbaum ap-
parently was killed first and that
the knife’s 9-inch blade was wiped
selean on-a pillow easerbesides its
head.
underworld leader who built the
down by gengland bullets in 1947.
Greenbaum and his wife had
maintained a home in Phoenix for
25 years. He came here Monday
and was expected back in Las
Vegas next week____
Greenbaum’s sister-in-law, Mrs.
Charles Greenbaum, died in her
Phoenix home less than four years
ago f what a coroner s jury ruled
to be murder by suffocation. The
case has not been solved.
testified. “I said if we had
turkey once more. I wouldn’t
be able to take it.”
Catherine said she re-
gretted the whole affair,
explaining: “I just thought
the leftovers still were fresh.”
Johnson dismissed a dis-
orderly conduct charge
against James.
times.
Edwards said all of the bullets and city officers.
to the scene by a contingent of
other members of the department
Goodfellows Short
Of Toys, Cash
* Abilenians are going to have to
open their hearts, their pocket-
books and their store of old toys
if Christmas for the city’s under-
privileged is going to be on a
par with past years.
Requests for help are pouring
in as fast as years gone by. But
with only 10 days left before the
Goodfellow Toy Store opens Dec.
15, the supply of toys and cash
2 was far below normal.
” Only $1,072.50 in contributions
had been made by the city’s
“Goodfellows” out of a minimum
need of $11,092, Goodfellow lead-
ers said. ...------.
And Asst. Fire Chief Howard
Hill Wednesday said the amount
and assortment of toys this year
is far below years past. Firemen
need almost every kind, type and
size of toy or wheel goods, if they
are to have enough to go around
when the Goodfellow Toy Store
opens Dec. 15-19.
Call Marines
Marine Reservists (Phone OR
2-5921) will pick up any toys do-
nated to the Goodfellows. Central
Mrs. Gifford W. Davis
Lemon G. Neely
Mrs. J. C. Cumbs Jr.
Anonymous
Underprivileged Children’s
Fund, Cactus Lions Club
Mrs. J. Cross White
Previously Ack.
TOTAL*
1000
8.00
1.00
25.00
50.00
20.00
944.00
$1,072.50
’ Some of the pleas for help from
the Goodfellows say:
Sugar Diabetes
"I would like to have a check
for Christmas dinner., for our
youngest boy has sugar diabetes
and it takes all we can get to buy
his medicine and diet meals. I
would like to have two bicycles
for them I thought if I could
get. both of them a bicycle they
could get a paper route to help
out.”
Money also prompted this letter,
which said:
"I would like to ask help this
year for my two sons that are 8
and 10 years old. The 10-year-old
one has just had surgery and had
his right kidney removed. My
husband is an invalid Our doctor
bill on our son’s surgery was $385,
and I have to try and pa. it some
Said He Grabbed Her
She said he followed her from
the cafe to her car, insisting that
she talk with him. She said he
grabbed her as she left the vicin-
ity of the car.
"I ran my hand under here,”
she demonstrated, “where I had
that pistol. I knocked the safety
down. I told him I’d rather go to
my mama’s funeral than my
own.” she said.
She said' she fired and kept fir-
ing until the ammunition was ex-
hausted.
Edwards said he recovered five
empty shell cases at the scene,
indicating that each shot found its
mack.
Mrs. Wilson said that she and
Bates had had differences con-
cerning some property in Okla-
homa that she bought from him.
After “he found out there was
some oil on it, he wanted me to
give him back the lease on it.
“There was nothing on the
property,” she said, but “It’s
mine, I bought it.”
She said she was married but
separated from her husband, who
is living in Paris, Tex. She has
one child of -her own and has an-
other living with her, she told
Dist. Atty. Wiley Coffey.
She was convicted here this
year of a liquor law violation and
paid the $238.95 fine and court
costs only Sunday when arrested
on a capias pro fine.
Bates’ driver’s license showed
him to be 58 and to reside at 534
N. 7th St.
Officers believe Mrs. Green-
baum. who took their maid-home
Tuesday night, returned to the
house after her husband was killed
and that the intruder or intruders
then slugged, bound and killed
her.
The couple had one child, Mrs;
Harold Tennebaum, wife of a
Phoenix insurance executive.
Greenbaum, once owner of the
famed Flamingo Hotel, lived here
and commuted regularly to Las
Vegas. Police cracked down on
his bookmaking racke here in
1948 and soon after he acquired
the Flamingo.
San Antonio
Cave-In Kills
2 Workmen
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. (AP) -
Two workmen died and four
others suffered injury in a col-
lapse of a city drainage project
in northwest San Antonio Wednes-
day.
The men were in a 15-foot-deep
drainage ditch when dirt fell on
them. .
Reporters at the scene identi-
fied the dead as Mariano Luna
and Santiago Ortezeous
The injured were tentatively
identified as Martin Cerda, 47.
San Antonio; Jesse Barrientas,
53, Seguin; August Barrientas,
31, Seguin, cousin of Jesse; and
Albert Roecker.
over te the new civilian space
agency the jet propulsion labora-
tory at Pasadena, Calif. The civil-
ian agency, set up this fall, had
-installations in the face or sun
Army opposition:
Eisenhower said the two federal
agencies had worked out an agree-
ment under which the space agen-
cy will “use the unique capabili-
ties" at Huntsville on a fully co-
operative basis.
In turn, the Army will continue
for the next year a program of
weapons development the Pas-
adena laboratory has been con-
ducting under Army contracts—
Brush Fire Threat
M • 0 4 191-01
Eases in California
MALIBU BEACH, Calif. (AP)- -
Firemen Wednesday claimed 50
per cent control of a brush fire
that overrain with explosive swift-
ness miles of home and ranch-
dotted hills behind this resort area.
But, with winds expected to con-
tinue Wednesday night, they de-
clined to predict when complete
control is likely.
By Wednesday night, some 30
hours after it started, the big blaze
had blackened about 18,000 acres
of brush, destroyed an estimated
29 homes and routed hundreds of
families. About 1.750 men were
fighting it along a 37-mile per-
imeter. A thousand of them were
soldiers, sailors and Marine* from
Southern California bases.
Much of the fire was burning
over the same ground covered by
blaze that charred 42,000 acres
and ruined 99 homes two years
ago....*
Wind velocities dropped Wednes-
day to between 15 and 30 m.p.h.
enabling firemen to control 50 per
cent of the penmeter of the huge
blaze.
Continued winds in the 25 m.p.h.
range were forecast for Wednes-
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Obituaries
Food news...
... 3, 16
SECTION 8
Women’s news.....
Sports ......,
Oil news .........
Amusements ......
Editorials .......
Comics .........
Radio, TV logs ..
Farm end markets .
19, 20
2, 3
12, 13
... 14
. 15
... 14
... 17
... 20
. . . 21
See picture, P(. 14A
day night, with continued low
humidity. Temperatures in the
area were in the high 80s.
It cut a swath of ruin roughly
five miles long and eight miles
wide, charring ranchlands and
roaring down half a dozen can-
yons lined with homes. -
Flames reached brush only a
quarter of a mile from the famed
Malibu film colony, • strip of sea-
side homes where film figures
dwell. But a massed array of fire-
men and pumper trucks checked
the blaze at the coast highway
before it could do damage.
Winds along the ocean were only
around 15 m.p.h. Wednesday en-
abling firemen to check the flames
along most of the perimeter. Tem-
peratures were in the high 80s
Two hot spots occupied their at-
tention: Malibu Canyon, back of
the film colony, and Zuma Canyon,
eight miles west. Both are heavily
populated.
Tongues of flame licked at the
22-million-dollar Potter Pacific
Co. laboratory in Malibu Canyon.
The entire hill on which it stood
was aflame, but the glass and con-
crete structure did not itself catch
fire. It does research in the missile
field.
Sheriff’s deputies using loud-
speakers urged hundreds to evacu-
ate, and many did. Those that
left the canyons Tuesday were
barred from re-entry. But owners
of seaside homes returned.
All highways in the area, in-
cluding U.S. 101A along the coast,
were closed to nonresidents.
Winds Tuesday carried the fire tory.
over the ranches’ of Bob Hope,
Ronald Reagan and Glenn Ford,
he was gratified that the space =
agency and the Defense Depart
---.-===
the national interest.” Eisenhower
said “It prevents unnecessary
duplication and effects economies
in space research and develop-
ment
“This development will enhance
close cooperation between the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration and the Department
of Defense to the end that the
peaceful use of space will redound
to the benefit of mankind.”
In turning over the Pasadena
laboratory to the space agency,
Eisenhower ordered the Defense
Department to transfer $4,078,250
from its appropriations to NASA
to carry out jet propulsion lab-
oratory projects
Eisenhower directed the space
agency to give all the assistance
it can in view of its own respon- .
sibilities to help with military
matters at the Pasadena labora-
but their ranch buildings were
saved. The 20th Century-Fox ranch
was scorched.
In the back country, near the
Malibu Lake resort, half a dozen
expensive homes were burned.
Then, streaking toward the sea.
the fire took 16 homes in Latigo
Canyon, half a dozen in Corral
Canyon including actor Lew Ayres
650.000 place, and one in Udell
Canyon.
Flames billowed so madly be-
fore the wind firemen were help-
less. Several times parties were
trapped and cut off. Eight fire-
men were burned and two trucks
destroyed by one flareup. The in-
jured, none in serious condition,
were evacuated by helicopter.
Rabbits, deer and rats were a
common sight fleeing the flames.
Sheriff’s deputies shot scores of
scorched deer to put them out of
In October, when word leaked
that the space agency was trying
to take over the bulk of the Army
missile facilities, there were loud
protests from Army officials and
from many of the scientists in-
volved.
Von Braun Protested
Among those who objected pub-
licly was Dr. Wernher von Braun,
director of the Army Ballistic Mis.
sile Agency, the No. i U.S. space
scientist. He. heads the team of
2.000 civilian scientists, which in-
cludes several former Germans
See ARMY, Pg. 6A, Cols. 4.5
THE WEATHER
their misery, wartapb
Firemen pumped water from the day. .
swimming-pool to save one $45,000 WEST,
home after water main pressure
fell.
One rancher, Joseph De Bell,
reported that 10 years of effort to
develop a hardier.. meatie breed
of beef cattle went up’ in smoke
when he lost his herd of 500 prize
animals.
Seize Rebel Arms
NICOSIA tAP’-British security
forces on Cyprus report they cap-
tured more rebel arms in Novem-
ber than in any two previous
months put together.
U. s. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY (Radius 40
miles) — Cool and windy Thursday, be-
coming considerably colder Thursday
night and«Friday. High temperature
Thursday near 55 degrees: low Thursday
night near 30; high Friday near 50. .
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS - Partly
cloudy and windy, turning colder north-
west portion Thursday afternoon Con-
-1 rably colder Thursday night and Fri-
WEST TEXAS - Partly cloudy and
windy, turning colder. Panhandle and
South Plains Thursday Considerably
colder Thursday night and Friday.__
SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST TEX-
AS — Partly cloudy, mild Thursday,
Turning considerably colder Friday and
in north portion Thursday night. A few
showers near coast Thursday night.
TEMPERATURES
Wed. a.m. Wed. p.m.
40 .........1:00 • *
41 ______2: 2.00 ............71
38 ...........3.00..........72
38 ............4:00 ............68
39 ............5:00 ...:.......«
67.. 12:00 ......—
High and low for 24-hours ending • p.m
72 and 34.--
High and low same date last year:
57 and 33.
Sunset last night: *5:33 p.m.: Sunrise
today: 7:25 a.m.: Sunset tonight: 5:33.
Barometer reading at 9 p.m.: 28.02
Humidity at 9 p.m.: 38 per cent.
Cold Winds.
Due Today
A dry cold front is scheduled
A sister in Seymour has been
notified of the death. The body*
is at Curtis-Starks Funeral Home
here. - .
—--------------—----— to move through- West Central
Texas. Thursday afternoon, drop-
station firemen are repairing
wheel toys; No. 2 Station is paint-
ing small toys; No. 5 Station is
working on spring toy repairs;
No. 6 Station is taking care of
doll repairs, and No. 3 Station is
painting bicycles. r - the ter
Cash should be mailed to Good- food as the biggest need for
fellows, co The -■
way. I would like toys, food and
clothing if possible but anything
will be greatly appreciated.” .
This Abilenian listed clothes and BU
ING
LEFT
Latest Contributors are -
Mr. and Mrs. James B
Jordan Jr.
Anonymous .
Anonymous
Reporter-News Christmas:
"I need help for Christmas. My
husband is not working right now.
$10.00 but I need clothes for my child-
2.00 ren and a basket of food for
2.50 Christmas dinner.”
1958;
ping temperatures to 30 degrees
by Thursday night.
The U.S. Weather Bureau in
Abilene said the front was located
over northwestern Oklahoma late
Wednesday night and was mov-
ing south.
Weathermen said wind ac-
companying the cold front should
register between 25 and 30 miles
an hour in gusts, kicking up 'some
dust.
) A high' of 55 degrees is expect-
“ied Thursday, and the high Fri-
day was predicted a. 50
BY H-BOMB DEVELOPER .
Drought-Free West Texas Seen
“We must now go to work to see
HOUSTON W—A drought-free
. West Texas has been visualized
by a prominent nuclear scientist dream,” the University of Cali-
Dr Edward Teller, developer of
the hydrogen bomb, believes un-
derground nuclear explosions
might dissolve the impervious fea-
ture of West Texas soil and permit
„ Mississippi Valley waters M seep
through the soil blockage.
if this is a practicality or a pipe
fornia scientist told the second an-
nual chemical research conference
of the Robert A. Welch Founda-
tion.
could excavate an Alaskan harbor
and. turning basin and that under-
ground explosions could melt de-
posits of oil tars and turn them
into recoverable liquids.
He also said extra cheap heat
for domestic use could be develop-
explosives have a very great po-
tential in the matter of water sup-
ply. 7.
•d through use of boot generated
by an underground explosion.
Speaking on peaceful uses of nu-
clear explosives. Teller also
visualised that an underwater shot Teller said underground nuclear
He said impervious soils are the
greatest handicap to adequate wa-
ter supplies.
“The explosion would break up
the impervious nature,” he said about 0 p.m. Wednesday
"If rightly applied in th* proper
places, deserts will bloom." -
LONG NIGHT AHEAD — Lowell Taggart of 1125
Danville Dr. gets a little shut-eye after bedding down
__________________j in front of the Abilene Eagle
ticket office at the high school gym. He was the only
one there at that time, although two others had stopped
by and then decided not to wait it out. Tickets to the
Abilene-Wichita Falls game go on sale at 8 a.m.
Thursday, with a limit of four per person. Most of the
crowd was expected to arrive in the early hours
Thursday. (Staff Photo by BUT Nelson)
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