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COLDER;
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The Abilene Repot
TEESUNDAY
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78TH YEAR, NO. 240
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
Associated Press (AP) ABILENE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1959
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_ , Foreign Aid ‘Farce,’ Cries
Hagerty Accused Cut By Demo Radio Moscow
Of Influencing Solons Seen
ON TV CASE
WASHINGTON (AP — The "The whole world knows per-
State Department said Saturday fectly well the humane basis of
night it is shocked that the Soviet American society and is conse-
Union would denounce a tape re- quently able to appreciate as well
(AP) - Con- cording the United States says as do the American people that
gressional democratic strategists shows Soviet fighters shot (down the United States government re-
possible bil- an unarmed American transport, trained from publishing this evi-
By LEWIS GULICK charge, Hagerty said, “I never WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON (AP)— Presiden- heard from Mr. Schwartz."
tial press secretary James C. The press secretary gave out
Hagerty was accused by former through his office here what he are talking about - r-~-~ -■ -, - ----------------" """ --
congressional investigator Ber- said was the full correspondence lion - dollar cut in foreign aid The department accused the So-dence, after having given it to the
nard Schwartz Saturday of having involved. This included; two pro- spending to counter President Ei- viets of compounding previous de- Soviet government solely in the
intervened in a TV case for politi- testing letters to him from William
cal reasons.
J. Embler, as research consult-
Hagerty shot back that. “Mr. ant to the speaker of the N Y.
Schwartz was either misinformed State Assembly; Hagerty's letter
or was deliberately lying,” to McConnaughey, and a McCon-
Schwartz, who got bounced a naughey letter to Hagerty explain-
year ago from his job as chief ing the FCC action
hope of obtaining information on
the 11 missing crewmen The
United States government hopes
that this Moscow radio statement
, . ... . nials with a "new and transpar-
senhower s description of- them as ent" one
spenders. In breadcasts beamed around
The Democratic objective, as it the world, the Soviet radio Satur- ,
started developing this week is day night accused the United does not reflect the considered
to move in the directionof keeping States of a "sensational farce” in attitude of the Soviet government.
Eisenhower s 77 - billion • dollar producing the recordings. : —
budget in balance. The President
forecast a precarious surplus of
70 million dollars in the year
starting July 1.
attitude of the Soviet government.
Snyder Boy
Fatally Shot
In Accident
AP Wirephoto counsel of the House subcommit- The correspondence did not in-
tee checking regulatory agencies, elude anything from Hagerty to
made his charges in a new book. Embler after McConnaughey sent
parts of which became public in his letter to the press secretary
advance. '" Albany Embler said: 1 thin the past Eisenhower has had cording.
Schwartz saw behind-the-scenes wrote to Jim (Hagerty) because Lyndon B The State Department said in a
wirepulling reaching up to the he was somebody in Washington efforts to restore in the senate statement:
white ousehon important cases I happened to know. He acknowl- foreign aid cuts made by the "It is shocking that the Soviet
latorv agencies The edset receiving the letter and House. But Johnson is showing government has now compounded
Oversight* subcommittee went on said he would pass it along to signs he may be less cooperative its previous false denials that it
under Rep Oren Harris D Ark' the FCC.We have never discussed this year because of Republican possesses vital information in this
—without Schwartz-to air cases " again. accusations that the Democrats case by this new and transparent SNYDER (RNS) - A 10-year-
involving such high officials as FCC reversed itself several are "spenders and socialists," as denial of the authenticity of a tape old boy going with a friend to re-
President Eisenhower's No. 1 times in the TV situation involved, he put it, to which its ambassador and air turn a borrowed shotgun was fa-
aide, Sherman Adams, and Feder. But the end it did not make Eisenhower has forecast $3,498,-attache in the United States ner- tally wounded Saturday afternoon
al Communications Commissioner the change against which Embler 000,000 in foreign aid spending for vously refused to listen nearly when the gun was fired acciden-
Richard A. Mack. Both Adams was protesting,___________________the next fiscal year,_______three months ago itally.
NEW YORK (AP)-Little Bob- the water. They found Bobby in She died not long after the res and Mack resigned in the hubbub
by Sullivan was given the sad time, but his mother had been cue, that followed.
news Saturday and it was a heart- too seriously injured ’to survive. Bobby first seemed to feel at In Schwartz’s book, “The Pro-
breaking ordeal for everyone at' - -.......
Flushing Hospital I 19 F.
Three uncles from Chicago I 5
told the 8-year-old lad that his EUN UE
mother, father and two sisters
1 had been killed by Tuesday T.LLA
night’s airplane crash here. FOFIORI
Bobby, stunned into disbelief at "1* 9"
first, finally broke down and wept .
pitifully. Tears also streamed
down the faces of the uncles. TVTIT 2.3
"But I saw mommy down- ' ******
ROBERT SULLIVAN, MRS. NORA SULLIVAN
... grandmother comforts him
IN NEW YORK TRAGEDY
Plane Crash Survivor,
8, Told Family Killed
Oversight subcommittee went on
Moscow radio commentators
employed such words as "clum-
sy. "transparent," "staged,” and
"forgeries” in describing the re-
Progress Claimed
In German Talks
of get-welt cards which had come One case, he said, was in “Al- octrees
from strangers all over the coun- bany . Schenectady (where the X HIGHTOWER ------------------ —
try. " * President's press secretary inter- WASHINGTON MAPA wran- inevitably require some initial un- NATO council in Europe this
"I don’t know them, granny,” vened against an applicant on po- involving the British Embassy derstanding
T . Rsthe told Mrs. Nora Sullivan of New litical grounds)." Schwartz did not and the State .Department,
Two cold fronts, ones bearing York," his grandmother. “Youu give further details rated Saturday that Britain ink-
— the hospital that all his family fessor and the Commissions" (Al-
had been lost. As he emerged fred A. Knopf Inc., N.Y.), the
from shock, however, he remem- New York University law profes-
tiered being taken there with his sor listed several cases which he
mother. ’ said the subcommittee had failed
Just before the uncles told to develop further after he left
Bobby, the boy was chatting in materials on them in subcommit-
amazement about a great stack tee files:
One case, he said, was in “Al-
with free elections would almost officials here and is going to the
Fred Lewis Maloney Jr., who
was 10 years old on Jan. 27, was
fatally wounded by the charge
from a .410 gauge shotgun held by
Morty Upton. 14
| The accident occurred about 1:45
p m on the Santa Fe railroad
'tracks on the east edge of Snyder,
land just outside the city limits.
Fred Lewis died at 3:30 p.m. in
Cogdell Memorial Hospital, where
he had been taken by a Bolger
Funeral Home ambulance.
between the two Ger- weekend eThe two boys were only a few
— ---------—- .— feet apart when gun was ac-
cated Saturday that Britain thinks man governments. The Western powers want the eidentally discharged, it was re-
have to take them unites, tel Hagerte with cc the United States is lagging in A proposal for a foreign minis- meeting to be held in Geneva or ported. Morty told investigating of-
mommy She'll know them. Thomasville, ch. did making plans to counter a possi- ters meeting on German and Ku- Vienna at a date still to he deter-ficers that the gun had been bor
Hospital doctors told the three was pass on to the then FCC - blockade of West Berlin, ropean security problems proba- mined—probably late April or ear- rowed from Chaney: and the
uncles, who plan to take Bobby Chairman George C. MeConnaugh- On another front of the prepara- bly will be made by the Western ly May munition t£y"had fretallI the am
to Chicago with them, that it was ey a March 1957 letter from a New tions for meeting the latest Soviet powers to the Soviet government The flareup between the British been used the gun had
t an challenge in Germany, however, next week. A brief note to that ef- Embassy
, , - anappeared that Secretary of
nel assignments in the Albany State John
stairs,” the boy cried out over
and over again. She’s not dead.” down on Abilene from the north
Bobby begged his uncles to say and the other from the west, are
that it wasn’t really so expected to bring rain, drizzle and
It is true, mommy has gone freezing rain to West Central Tex-
heaven to be with God," said as Sundav and Monday.
one of the uncles. Edward Mur- reathor renacional V EU WIL Wax, tau IL wan “ “ --«. ** "*% „«... .
phy Cold weather with occasional a delicate psychological matter in York Republican protesting _____
"She was downstairs but she drisz suisi pectedinte reach Abi-infor ming the boy about his fam- FCC decision to change TV chan- it
died a Lera"amueam, her," said an' * rain and progressive, Cider Theoabetors said he appeared area." liheery % the caste"a state John Foster Dulles is mak.
The third John O'Ned temperatures are forecast for Sun- unusually brave for his age and ready had been closed in June of ing headway. Dulles is seeking to
.a urd ’ John O Neil day afternoon and night. The un- had held up manfully while in the the previous year unfreeze Western policy on Ger.
edged j . pleasant weather is scheduled to
Your daddy was a brave man continue through Monday morning.
He would want you to he brave" A low of 25 degrees is forecast
The uncles had flown here up- for the area Sunday night, and
on learning of the crash of an the mercury Monday is not ex
American Airlines plane, killing pected to climb above the low 30s.
55 of the 73 aboard. Bobby and One front was located Saturday
his family were returning aboard night over the Kansas Oklahoma
the plane after a trip to Chicago border and the other was develop-
Bobby was sitting in the seat ing in Eastern Nevada and South-
next to his mother, who was ex- ern California
peeling another child in three The U. S. Weather Bureau at
months. Nearby were his father. Dallas Saturday night issued a
Joseph, and sisters, Patricia, 13, special advisory saying there is a- .
and Joan, 5. threat of snow developing from the LL D
The boy told rescuers who Texas Panhandle northeastward toOLTTOUSE DDOAGS
plucked him out of the icy wa- the Central Plains and cautioned AAA Vest BE SE to
ters of the East River that his stockmen and highway travelers
mother tried to support him in to be alert for further advisories BENJAMIN (RNS) — Knox water leakage (the roof was one
the water after the plane hit and on the development of the storm. County voters Saturday decisively of the items to be repaired',
burst apart. But, he said, "we Temperatures were expected to rejected a $55,000 bond issue for freezing and the "ravages of
couldn’t stay up. I tried to hold plunge to the 20s and 30s in the remodeling and repairing the time" The architects had said
my breath. I was cold. My arms Panhandle Sunday morning, county courthouse $55,000 was needed to correct de-
felt frozen." The low temperature recorded at The vote was 176 for the bonds fects in the structure and put it
Just then the crew of a tug- Abilene Saturday was 40. followed and 277 against, with one small in first class condition again. To.
boat began pulling people out of by a high of 59 degrees box, Gilliland, still unreported erect • new building comparable
---------------------Only the two Monday boxes, with the present would require
AA ■ . m ' * Benjamin, Rhineland and Brock $350,000 at present - day costs
i e D A e A M favored the bond issue, while Tru- commissioners said.
TILnOOY IESETVOIT scott, Vera. Sunset and the two All bonds on the courthouse
.. T Knox City precincts decisively op- have been paid, but the Knox
. _ _ . posed it. Goree voted slightly County hospital bonds still have
• (. . ■ P • _ F__Jl against it seven years to run and jail bonds endurance fliers landed Saturday
OUPT • 1CIE T H/ic , The bond issue was called fol- 15. Commissioners set a 25 cent after 65 days aloft in a small '
“CAE & ■ BSE EU Bans WO 'Towing a “recent examination of rat e on permanent improve- plane—a new world record by 15 .
• “ the courthouse by a firm of Fort ments to pay for hospital, jail and days.
HASKELL (RNS) — Court ac- meeting of the water authority's Worth architects hired by the courthouse bonds ( if the court- Bobb Timm a Las Vegas busi- 1
tion Saturday cleared the wav for board of directors at the “earliest C Commissioners Court The archi- house issue had been passed.) nessman, and John Cook, a Los 1
a $3,800,000 water development possible date" to work out plans tects said the building was a first The court had indicated in ad Angeles airline pilot, climbed from
project to serve Haskell, Rule for carrying out the water de- class structure when erected in vance of the election, however, their single-engine Cessna 172, stiff |
Munday and Goree velopment program 1934 at a cost of $93,300, but that that the rate would not be chang and weary.
Judge Ben Charlie Chapman of One of the first steps, he said it has deteriorated from weather, ed regardless of the outcome of Thee took off from McCarran 1
39th District Court of Haskell Sat- will be setting up tax rolls and------------------------------the election. The tax money which a 8 E n " , 1
urday dismissed a suit brought by equalization of evaluations of fax- TBIF WICA TUED would have gone to pay off the sel There in nd n an 33 1
23 Rule residents who challenge able propertv in the four towns THE WEATHER new courthouse bond issue will he they broke the previous endurance 1
ed the outcome of the North Cen- comprising the water district ------------------------------used for repairs and upkeep each record of s days and 18 minutes,
tral Texas Municipal Water ' Au- The bond election — held in the f s DEPARTMENT or COMMERC E year to prevent further deteriora- S as ept 21 . T 1
thority bond election held in Rule four towns on the same date - EATEN .....tion, the court said. Bill Burkhart Dallas, Tex
Oct 11 in which voters had ap- was for funds to develop a mu- meilasionar Cruet sun.mrrmnc.eode,"" Whether a new bond issue will Timm and ' ook landed at 2 in 1
prov ed the wat er dev elopment nicipa I water supply. pumping ins rain or drizzle late Sunday afternoon be called later has not been de-p.m.
project. plant, filtration plant and pipe line aw"' Possible" enundersnowers sunday cided. Timm marked his 33rd birthday |
The suit alleged irregularities in distribution system to supply wa-temperaturr sundan m (2 OTO Now Sime,
voting procedures, but was dis- ter to the four towns 27 night 25 - histh Monday i the low
missed op request of attorneys for The bond issue carried in all NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS Clondy mild
both the Rule residents and the four towns, but the two legal ac- or Monday occasional rain Sunday
water authority, tions challenging validity had de- • Mo 15
Late Friday Dist. Judge Lewis laved further work on the proj- #
Williams of Benjamin dismissed a ect.
similar suit brought by three The water district plans to build %
Goree residents challenging the a 25,000 acre-foot reservoir about #
validity of the election there This 12 miles east of Munday, with the, €
suit also was dismissed at the plans being such the reservoir can 3
had held up manfully while”in the the previous year, unfreeze Western policy on Ger-
hospital for treatment oi minor In denying putting on political man unification and thereby gain
injuries. They felt there might be pressure, Hagerty said he gets a the opportunity for new Western
a lasting psychological effect un- lot of such correspondence and initiative. Obiuaries
less he could achieve the release shunts it on to the agencies in. Diplomats here attach much oil news
found in tears, volved. As for whether Schwartz- . , ,
Bobby cried, for the first time had tried to check out the facts importance to a decision reported
since the crash with him before making the in Bonn to a* effect that the West
6German government does not con
sider holding of free elections an
essential first step in a reunifica-
tion scheme
That opens the possibility, dip-
lomats said, that the West Ger-
man government might be willing
to have some contact with the
East German regime in prospec-
tive East-West talks. Any reunifi-
cation formula which did not start
BENJAMIN (RNS) — Knox water leakage (the roof was one------------
Knox Voters Nix
eusu u savages of
the time" The architects had said
After 65
Days, Fliers
Touch Down
LAS VEGAS, Nev (AP)—Two
1934 at a cost of $93,300, but that that the rate would not be chang - and weary
it has deteriorated from weather, erf regardless of the outcome of
in north por
1:00
00
00
100
i 00
cided.
The vote by boxes aloft last Wednesday He and
For Against Cook, also 33, took turns at the
38 23 controls in four-hour shifts Be-
to 40 tween times each slept on a mat-
Unreported tress farther back in the plane
6 43 They flew between Las Vegas
1. Benjamin
and the State Depart- The charge struck the Maloney
fect has been worked out by U.S., ment demonstrated once more, boy in the right side of the ab-
British, French and West German however, that the Western Allies domen
---have some tidying up to do among Fred Lewis Jr. was the son of
themselves before they confront Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Maloney,
the Soviets. That undoubtedly is Upton s parents are Mr. and Mrs.
the purpose of Dulles’ trip to Eu- Eddie Upton. Both families live in
rope, where he has talked with WeberTrailer Court in the east
11 12 British and French leaders and is edge of Snyder.
′ now conferring with German au- Morty was reported to be in a
thorities in Bonn state of shock Saturday night.
... 2 British Ambassador Sir Harold The dead boy was a student in
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
SECTION ■
civ Hall Bear ....
Editorials ....
Form news
Dyess Picture Page
Amusements
SECTION C
Women’s news
Church news .....
Radio, TV logs
SECTION D
Sports ...
Caccia, a quiet and ordinarily East Elementary School The Up-
even tempered professional diplo- ton boy is a student in Snyder
mat, apparently set off the flare- Junior, High.
up between his embassy and the Fred Lewis Jr is survived by
State Department Friday. First his parents: two brothers, Patrick
the called on Dep. Undersecretary Dale and Gary Don, both of Sny-
110 of State Robert Murphy, and then der; the paternal grandparents.
told British correspondents about Mr and Mrs. Lewis Maloney of
′" 1 his conversation. Some reports Wichita Falls and the maternal
said he was angry, others that grandmother, Mrs. Lorene Stolper
1.4 he was annoyed or fed up, of Wichita Falls
night 2 Truscott
■ 3. Gilliland
“ 4 Vera
5 5. Goree
is * South Munday
2 6A. North Munday
• | 7. Rhineland
8. Sunset
6
21 and Blythe, Calif., with occasional
17 side trips to Los Angeles and
Ij Phoenix, Ariz.
19
25
17
12
1
12
>1
10 Each morning and evening they.- « . -=====
13 swooped low over the Blythe am CONGRATULATES ENDURANCE PILOTS - Mrs. Lorene Timm kisses her
53 port to refuel from a pickup frock bearded husband Bob Timm as he and John Cook land in Las Vegas, Nev. Sat-
26 driving 90 miles an hour They urday after breaking all previous endurance flight records. With them are the
4 lowered a hook to hoist the refuel Timm’s two sons, Steven, 5, center and Gregory. 6 Their course was between
4 ing hose and a basket containing Las Vegas and Blythe, Arii., with occasional side trips to nearby desert points.
11
for 2-hours
request of both plaintiffs and de-be increased to 40,000 acre-feet nil and low_______
fendants. at a later time. P.m.: % and 40. _ 9A. N. Knox City
W. R. Johnson, Haskell banker Freese and Nichols of Fort on. 7 Brock
who is president of the water au- Worth are consulting engineers for *nt"1 #" m.ssunder ooi 71" Absentees
TItim An Total
________at a later time.
W. R. Johnson, Haskell banker Freese
thority, said he would call a the project
M s •. C Knox City
IN 277 hot meals and mail Los Angeles and Phoenix. (AP Wirephoto).
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