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Negro Indicted
In Rape Case
By Grand Jury
Six indictments were returned
by the Nolan County grand jury
Thursday afternoon, with a rape
indictment returned against Albert
Phillmore, 44, negro farm hand
charged with criminally attack-
ing a Roscoe white woman taking
precedence over other cases.
Under the law the case can be
tried in any nearby district court
at the earliest possible date, court
officials said.
Phillmore is in jail in another
county in charge of Texas state
rangers. Bond has not been set
and he has not been arraigned
yet to indicate what his plea will
be. t
Indictments charging driving
while under the influence of in-
toxicating liquor in a motor ve-
hicle on a public road, second of-
fense, were returned against John-
ny Lee Foreman and Windall Joe
Rose.
Three other indictments were
returned against defendants that
have not been apprehended. One
is charged with theft and two are
charged with moving mortgaged
property out of the state.
R. E. Gracey is foreman of the
grand jury which recessed after
two days of investigation of pend-
ing criminal complaints.
Eisenhower Calls Bi-Partisan
Conference On Foreign Affairs
CAUTIOUS—On receiving a call from neighbors that a would-be
suicide had barricaded himself in his home in San Francisco, five
police cars responded and cautiously watched house as an inspec-
tor attempted to talk the man out of taking his life. After an hour,
police finally risked squirting tear gas through keyhole in bath-
room door and real estate salesman Herbert H. Eling gave himself
up. (NEA Telephoto)
Demo, GOP Leaders To Meet
With President On Nov. 17
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—UP—President Eisenhower
Friday invited Democratic and Republican congressional
leaders to meet him Nov. 17 to review developments in for-
eign affairs since Congress adjourned in August.
The White House said Mr. Eisenhower's invitation to the
bi-partisan conference is in line with his "established pol-
icy" of keeping leaders of both parties on foreign relations.
Secretary of State John Foster
OIL
ROUND-UP
■y ALLEN SAKER
Atoms For Peace Plan
Gets Full US Backing
A big new oil producer in section
31 on the B. C. Payne place was
completed Thursday with a daily
potential of 363 barrels from the
Caddo pay.
This brought the number of oil
producers in the White Flat multi-
pay field to nearly 80 wells.
The rig has been skidded over to
the west to drill No. 3 Margaret
Keyes in section 32, north of the
No! 2 Keyes well, it was reported.
Six miles straight south of Lake
Sweetwater, No. 1 C. E. Boyd test
of Hunt Oil Company is reported
to have been skidded over a short
distance in section 44-X-T&P to
start a new hole.
The drillers have experienced
serious trouble with this important
test and are reported making a
iresh start after having gotten
down about 3,800 feet.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Nov.
5—UP—The United States pledged
itself Friday to give atomic ma-
terials and American know-how to
put President Eisenhower's
"atoms-for-peace" plan into world-
wide operation.
U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr., using the words of
President Eisenhower, told the
United Nations political committee
program for peaceful uses of
atomic energy.
Dulles will participate in the meet-
ing.
Asked whether the President
would meet later with the Demo-
cratic leaders on questions involv-
ing other than foreign policy. Press
Secretary James C. Hagerty said
"that is all I have to announce at
this time."
Earlier, the President met with
Senate GOP leader William F.
Knowland. The Californian said the
President hopes to arrive at a
"working arrangement" of co-op-
eration with the new Democratic
congressional majority to avoid a
Four Airmen Killed
And Eleven Injured
In Trainer Crash
TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 5—UP—
The Air Force Friday identified
Simpson Jr. and Capt. Maurice G.
Dumont. Their ages and home-
towns were not available immedi-
ately.
Three seriously injured officers
were identified as Charles Mur-
Mercury Hits
New Minimum
For Season
Friday morning brought the
coldest weather of the fall sea-
son to Sweetwater, and sent
residents reaching for that
extra blanket as the thermom-
eter tumbled to 36 degrees,
two degrees lower than the
previous minimum of 38.
A light frost was also in evi-
dence in the early morning
hours, but had disappeared by
sunrise.
It will be real football
weather tonight for the Sweet-
water-Plainview game at Mus-
tang Bowl, with a forecast of
continued cool weather, with
temperatures expected to stay
in the low forties and high
thirties Friday night. Little
wind is predicted, however,
which will eliminate the dis-
comfort of fending off a chill
north wind.
"stalemate" in government
"There Is a great desire to see | ray 25. Eubank, Ky.. Donald Mar-
that relationships between the ex-! silanj 21, Fort Salong, Long Is-
ecutive and legislative branches land, N. Y., and John A. Hoch, 21,
_ are close, cordial and constructive i Wilson, Kan. All are second lieu-
The agency would be similar to I |n the common interested' work- j tenants.
the specialized agencies of the t ^>8 out a government," Knowl- j Less seriously injured were 2nd
United Nations already in exis- i and said. Knowland said he and i Lts. Donald G. Worden, Rafel Vil-
tence, Lodge said. other GOP congressional leaders lalobos, James T. Lattimer, John
"All states which originally rati-! hope to meet with the Democratic
fied the agreement should become •—- "ot "°"1" "
that the United States also would j said.
members of the agency, and there
should be a provision for accept-
ing additional members," Lodge
leaders "at an early period.
Confident of Approach
Knowland was confident that the
bi-partisanship approach to basic
foreign policy would continue and
energy.
"We are prepared to start dis-1 senhower's observation when he
cussion with other countries for the | first cput chis 'atoinsdfor-peace"
conclusion of bilatei •diwI.r 1 plan before the L\. Jeueval Assern-
which will make it possible for us, j bly last Dec. 8:
under our laws, to furnish techni-j "The United States would be
cal information, technical assis-! more than willing—it would be
tance, and necessary amounts of
fissionable materials for the con-
struction of research reactors to be
located abroad." Lodge said.
Lodge presented to the commit-
tee a resolution calling for the cre-
ation by treaty of an international
agency to control the Eisenhower j
Lodge then quoted President Eid he was hopeful of achieving a de-
M. Smart and George S. Stein, 1st
Lt. Paul Chester, and S. Sgts.
James H. Collins and Dale W.
Koester. Ages and hometowns
were not yet available.
The plane, a T-29 navigational
„ trainer from Ellington Air Force
cree of cooperation with the Dem-|Base, Houston, reported engine
Two miles west of this well, the
No. 1 Brownfield well in section 44-
5-T&P, two miles north of Nolan,
is reported down about 5,300 feet
with interest continuing high.
Seismograph crews are still ac-
tive north of Nolan on the Ussery
place.
Humble's No. 3 K. R. Petty is
going down in section 6 south of
Nolan. Still south of there more
than a mile, Seaboard Oil Co. has
two rigs running and British-Am-
erican has two drilling rigs in ac-
tion.
Mrs. J. A. Daniel,
Pioneer Resident
Of County Dies
proud to take up with some 'prin-
cipally involved' the development
of plans whereby peaceful use of
atomic energy could be expedited.
"Of those 'principally involved'
the Soviet Union must, of course
be one."
Lodge recalled "the sorry se-
quel" that Russia rejected the
President's plan, only to notify the
United States in September that it
wanted to talk further about it. The
President announced on Wednes-
day that a new note had been sent
to Russia regarding the plan.
oerats on domestic policy.
However, key Democrats have
begun to whoop it up for a new
look at government spending, tax-
ing, farm, and power programs.
More of that is to come. Any
! trouble Thursday night almost im-
-.Vi, Jiately after taking off from
Tucson municipal airport. The pi-
lot radioed that he would attempt
to land.
With one engine out, the plane
one in or out of the liite House j banked and tried to swing onto the
who expects during the next two! "usy airport runway but it struck
years other than a no-holds-barred po^e' lines at the edge of the field
wrestle for partisan votes in 1956 an" burst into flame.
is likely to be wounded with dis-
appointment.
The honeymoon, if any, between
the Eisenhower administration
and the 84th Congress will be one
of Strange bedfellows a«d it will
be brief
The airport and parts of the
city were immediately plunged in-
to darkness. Flames were visible
a mile or more from the base.
The three seriously injured air-
men were rushed to Pima county
hospital while the eight less in-
To meet such situations was the ! ■|L)re,fl N'®rs were taken to the Da-
purpose of the meeting between | vls onthan ^lr Base hospital.
Mr. Eisenhower and Knowland.
Mrs. J. A. (Fannie Jane) Daniel,
88, pioneer Nolan County resident,
and wife of the late J. A. Daniel,
prominent rancher, died at 1:40 a.
m. Friday at the home of her son
Rupert Daniel, 800 Murrah Street,
following an illness of several ! WASHING! ON, Nov. 5 UP
. j Sen. Clinton P. Anderson express-
. ' ed doubt Friday that the House-
Born Jan. 3, 1866 in Alabama, j Senate Atomic Energy committee
Mrs. Daniel moved wi'h her par- will approve an administration-re-
ents to Shelby County, lexas, when | quested speedup for the controver
she was two years old. There she | sja| Dixon-Yates contract.
married J. A. Daniel, and in 1907
Dixon-Yates Power Contract
Approval Doubted By Senator
An oil test west of Lake Tram-
rnell and just north of the Brooks
Ranch is rumored as are several
other tests in this section.
At Hylton, the latest Hutchins
oil test of Jack Wrather Jr. is re-
ported still have lost circulation
trouble.
A wildcat oil test just south of
the well plugged earlier this year
on the Mrs. Florence Davis place in
Section 145-1 A-H&TC, 660 feet from
the west and south lines of the sec-
tion is reported planned.
It is said to be in the southwest
<v>rner of the northwest quarter of
the section, near the Cochran 4000
field.
It is three miles west of E. A.
Cambrian field.
they moved to Nolan County, sett-
ling at the old Ada community,
near the present site of Lake
Trammell.
Daniel engaged in ranching un-
til his death in 1941.
In 1948 Mrs. Daniel moved to
Sweetwater to make her home
with her son. She had been in
failing health for the past three
years.
Funeral services will be held at
the Highland Heights Methodist
The New Mexico Democrat, who
is expected to become chairman
of the committee when the Demo-
crats assume control of Congress
in January, said he believes some
Republicans are shying away from
the contract after reading Tues-
day's election results. He said the
contract was a "great political is-
sue" in the campaign.
The administration has asked
the joint atomic committee, which
is conducting hearings on the pro-
posed power deal, to waive a pro-
Church at 3 p. m. Sunday, the pas- j vjsjon requiring the contract to lie
No. 1 Grady Long well now being
completed northeast of Roscoe in
the north Roscoe reef field (west
■extension of the Strawn reef be-
tween the airport and Roscoe) is
reported to have flowed 115 barrels
of oil in 8 hours with plenty of
pressure from the reef. '
General Crude Oil No. 1 Wolf
te.st in Fisher County is reported
at 5,290 feet in lime after having
topped the reef at 5,190 feet, minus
datum point of 3,364 feet.
tor, Rev. T. L. Darby officiating
Burial will be in Sweetwater Cem
etery, Cate-Spencer Funeral Home
directing arrangements.
Survivors include the son, Ru-
pert and one daughter, Mrs. Geo.
Vaughn, Oklahoma City; eight
grandchildren; and one sister,
Mrs. J. L. Shepherd of Sweetwater.
A son, Taylor, died in 1923 and a
brother. G. E. Ramsey, prominent
Sweetwater businessman, died in
1952.
British-American test in far west
Nolan County west of Lake Tram-
mell in section 85 is reported drill-
ing at 6,675 feet, in lime and shale.
Second producer in the Sanford
Fry sand pool just over the Run-
Sec OIL Page 8
Special Election
For State Senate
Called For Dec. 11
AUSTIN, Nov. 5—UP—Gov. Al-
lan Shivers Friday called a special
election for Dec. 11 to fill the state
Senate vacancy created by the re-
cent death of Sen. Harley Sadler of
Abilene.
Sadler represented the 24th dis-
trict, composed of Dickens, Garza,
Kent, Stonewall. Borden, Scurry,
Fisher, Jones, Shackelford, How-
ard, Mitchell, Nolan and Taylor
counties.
before Congress 30 days before it
is signed. Anderson is against the
waiver and contends it should not
go into effect before the new Con-
gress meets in January.
The contract was made public
for th" first time Thursday by K.
D. Nichols, ju nor. ' Manager of the
Atomic Energy Commission, who
Fire Destroys
Athens School
Grading Of Dairy
Plants Underway
A grading survey of dairy plants
in the Sweetwater milk shed, prin-
cipally Nolan and Fisher Counties,
is under way this week in the pro-
cess of maintaining the continuous
honor roll system in this area, ac-
cording to Ardis Gaither, senior
sanitarian of the Sweetwater-Nolan
County Health Unit.
Dairies and flocks are now being
checked to keep the milkshed
standards in order.
WEATHER
was recalled for further question-
ing Friday.
Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) was
also scheduled to speak against
the contract at Thursday's hear-
ing. Gore was a strategist in the
14-day Senate filibuster against the
administration's atomic energy bill
last summer. The delaying action
was aimed partly at the Dixon-
Yates contract. j SWEETWATER — Temperature,
Gore said in advance of his testi- high 58 degrees, low 36 degrees,
mony that the Atomic Energy, Barometric pressure, 30.50, steady.
Commission has not yet complet Relative humidity, 50 per cent,
ed an agreement with the Tennes-1 steady. Instrument reading, clear
see Valley Authority to deliver; to partly cloudy, continued cool,
power contemplated under the con-j
tract. Gore said the contract j WEST TEXAS — Fair Friday
makes AEC "not only a power j night and Saturday, with moderate
broker, but a power speculator." ' temperature.
Plans Are Mapped
To Handle Martin
County Indictments
District Attorney Eldon Mahon of
this district conferred this week
with District Attorney Gil Jones
of Big Spring and others on plans
| for handling of 27 indictments
[ against seven Martin County citi-
zens brought here on a change of
venue.
Jones was appointed district at-
torney after resignation of Elton
Gilliland. Gilliland has agreed to;
j cooperate in prosecution of the i
cases and he and Martin County I
citizens brought here on a change j
of venue.
! Jones was appointed district at- [
torney after resignation of Elton
j Gililand. Gilliland has agreed to
j cooperate in prosecution of the cas- j
| es and he and Martin County Attor-
] ney Ralph W. Caton attended the
J conference.
James McMorries, former coun-
ty judge at Stanton, Martin Coun-
ty, is one of the defendants and it J
j is reported that three cases involv-
ing him are likely to be brought to
trial first.
The indictments against the for-
mer county judge, some former
county commissioners and several
private citizens are expected to j
bring a long, hard-fought trial or
series of trials here.
Indictments principally charge
"theft" which under the law can
include charge of "theft by false
pretense."
Although not mentioned in the in-
dictments, two of the pending cases
are said to involve alleged purchase
of fence posts for use along the
right of way of Highway 80.
VISIT HOME—Dr. Samuel Sheppard, hatless, left, with jury and
police officers, go down walk from the Sheppard home to shore
of Lake Erie as the jury visited scene of Sheppard's wife's death.
Opening statements in Sheppard's trial got under way in Cleveland,
Thursday. Sheppard is accused of slaying his pregnant wife last
July 4.
ACCUSED KILLER WEEPS
Sheppard Attorney
Queries Coroner
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 5 —
UP— A celebrated criminal once
was dubbed "Willie the Actor," but
Friday, Cleveland's celebrated
criminal lawym-, William J. Corri-
gan took the J*fte away from him.
Corrigan is chief defence attor-
ney for Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard.
the 30-year-old osteopath who is
accused of beating his pregnant
wife to death after a quarrel over
his attentions to "other women."
The 67-year-old, white-haired at-
torney put on his act in starting to
cross-examine a learned state wit-
ness. The man in the witness chair
was Dr. Lester Adelson, deputy
coroner and pathologist.
Adelson Thursday shocked the
GRAND JURY STATEMENT
Peace Officer-Citizen
Cooperation Is Urged
ATHENS, Tex., Nov. 5—UP—
The Athens high school, a three-
story building erected in the 1920s,
was destroyed Thursday night by
fire. There was no immediate es
timate of the damage.
Fire Chief Homer Williams said
the fire was believed to have start-
ed on the third floor, probably in
the auditorium The fire broke out
while a football game was under
Citizens of Nolan County were
urged by the grand jury, in its
report Thursday afternoon, to co-
operate with peace officers in
every way possible.
The statement from the grand
jury said:
"We the grand jury impanelled
for the September term of the dis-
vate citizen to make himself a
committee of one to aid and as-
sist peace officers whenever pos-
sible. \
"If a citizen observes any viola-
tion of the law, we hereby sin-
cerely urge him to report the vio-
lation as soon as possible. This is
particularly true regarding the
trict court of Nolan County through
our investigation have found that drunk driving problem. In this
our law enforcement officers have way each citizen can make a ma-
done their best to render good ser- jor contribution toward making
vice to the people of this county, our county a safe place in which
However, we have found that in to live and raise our families."
many cases they are handicapped Members of the grand jury are:
because of the vast area they must R. E. Gracey, foreman, E. O.
way nearby and many spectators cover. Their best work can only be French. L. B. Johnson Jr., Owen
deserted the game for the fire. accomplished with the free and Kent. Leo Wagnon, Vernon Guth-
Thc Malakoff fire department as-j complete cooperation of the pub- rie, C. E. Wagoner, Austin Jordan,
sisted the Athens fire department lie. A. J. Robinson, Hugo Zetzman, R.
in fighting the fire. i "A necessity exists for each pri- P. Potter, Bruce Newton.
Jack Boyd Heads
County Activities
For Texas Beef Week
C. E. (Jack) Boyd cattleman
and pioneer citizen of Nolan Coun-
ty. was today named County Chair-
man of the Texas Beef Council, ac-
cording to Roy Parks, president.
In accepting the appointment
Boyd became county coordinator
of Beef Week activities during the
week of November 8 to 14. Gov-
ernor Allan Shivers has proclaim-
ed state-wide observance of Beef
Week during that period. John Ben
Shepperd, Attorney General of Tex-
as, will be the principal speaker at
the inaugural dinner in Fort Worth
on November 4.
Beef Week activities in Nolan
Nolan County, Boyd said, would in-
clude speeches and announcements
before service clubs and organiz-
ed groups, a radio program, and
special features by local restau-
rants and meat markets oi'fering
bargains in economy cuts of beef.
Boyd emphasized, however, that
| the Texas Beef Council's program
j is a year-round educational effort,
| and not confined just to the spe-
cial eve nt.
"The Council was formed by all
segments of the cattle industry to
further knowledge and understand-
! ing of beef's versatility and eeono-
; my," he said. "Texas is the na-
tion's top beef producer and should
j be its top beef eating state. It will
| he, too, when every Texan gets the
I habit of eating beef at least once
■ every day."
B. C. Payne Well
On Edge Of White
Flat Field Finaled
Roark & Hooker and the Chica- i
go Corporation have completed
No. 1 B. C. Payne, north offset to j
their No. 1. Mrs. J. Etta Casseaux,
discovery well in the Caddo on the
northeast edge of White Flat mul- i
tipay oil field.
It was finaled for calculated
daily flowing potential of 363 bar-
rels of 47.8 gravity oil, to water,
with gas-oil ratio of 621-1.
Potential was based on actual
eight-hour flow of 121 barrels of oil
through a quarter inch choke and
performations between 5,516-34
feet.
Top of the pay was picked at 5.-
506 feet with total depth, 5.579 feet.
The No. 1 Casseaux well was fi-
naled in October for a calculated
daily flowing potential of 258.24
barrels of 48 gravity oil, no water,
with gas-oil ratio of 944-1. The
17-hour potential was through a
quarter inch choke and perfora-
tions between 5,506-31 feet with top
of the Caddo picked at 5.499 feet. j
Derrick floor elevation is 1.955
feet.
courtroom by projecting on a
screen gruesome color slides of the
hacked head of pretty Marilyn
Sheppard. He had performed the
customary aufcupsy <j.i the body.
His state's testimony was precise,
clinical and highly-technical.
Dr. Adelson had taken color pic-
tures of the dead woman's brutal-
ly beaten head. While the five wo-
men members of the jury sat with
hands pressed to faces as if to
guard themselves from the horror
of the scene, the deputy coroner
projected the pictures from color
slides onto a big screen.
Weeps Convulsively
Dr. Sheppard, the 30-year-old
osteopath and surgeon, wept con-
vulsively during the last 20 min-
utes of the slide showing, although
he sat behind the screen so he
couldn't see it.
Corrigan, the white-haired mas-
ter strategist of the Sheppard de-
fense camp, wanted a cross-exam
ination to go into every move made
by the coroner's office.
After Dr. Adelson, the state had
several witnesses on tap to bolster
its contention that the "finger of
guilt" points to Dr. Sheppard.
The state charged in its opening
statement Thursday that Dr. Shep-
pard killed his pretty, 31-year-old
wife, because they had quarreled
over his "extra-marital affairs"—
particularly with a piquant, red-
haired laboratory technician nam-
ed Susan Hayes.
QlRCLINfi the SQUARE
Congratulations to the Jaycees
for having the largest delegation
at the Colorado City meeting Wed-
nesday night . . . however, on two
successive occasions those in
charge failed to recognize the
Sweetwater group. President Bob
Law won the prize . . . don't know
what.
One difference between men and
women is that you never hear a
redheaded man claim his hair is
auburn.
Cub Scout Leaders
Invited To Pow-Wow
Cub Scout leaders o( this area j
are invited to a "Pow Wow" in the j
South Junior High School in Abi-;
lene for the Cbisholm Trail Scout j
Council, H. D. Norris, scout execu- j
tive. said Friday.
"This is short notice but our j
scout leaders are invited to at- j
tend and we are hopeful that a j
number will attend," he said i
"Those planning to attend are ask-
ed to telephone 9288 '"
The four divisions on the pro-!
gram will deal with administra-
tion, games, ceremonies and handi-
craft.
The $2 fee will include a meal
that will be a "show how" for
Cub Scout leaders for the Blue and
Gold banquets.
Mrs. L. A. Ritter, who won the
Reporter "Mystery Woman" con-
test said today that she has had
over 100 telephone calls congratu-
lating her for having won the $100
prize. . . "tell everyone I am very
grateful," she said.
Tom Marsh and Harry Dean
ought to look into the situation
about Bill Morton taking their
wives out for coffee every day . . .
also Mrs. Morton might be inter-
ested.
An "Old Timer" is a person who
can remember w hen the family ate
breakfast together.
The Mustangs should win to-
night's game from the Plainview
outfit . . . last for the season.
Everybody can now stop worry-
ing . . the Democrats are back
in power in Washington. We hope
they can make It rain in Texas.
Mustangs Vs Plainview At Mustang Bowl 8 P. M. Tonight
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