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VOL LIV-NUMBER 225 Mtmbar Anackrtod Tru ORANGE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1957_32 P«Q» BX~=:» [^SMiKloyliw^dit^
Faubus Might Seek To Close
School Rather Than Integral
POST
SCRIPTS
to the
NEWS
Home Owners' Share Is About 10 Per Cent
v 1 , ’ •* BIN
Business, Industry Pay Most for County Services
By BOB AXELSON
Lusty—brawling an<jf a market
gobbler. In part these words can
gum no the petrochemical industry.
Dynamic and dominant, the tre-
ireedous growth of the industry, | j
leapfrog g i n g By J. CULLEN BROWNING ! there wjll be a 5-cent reduction in sor-collector, Fred Force, included
nve- production The home owners’ share of the the over-all county tax rate this *45,724,865 In valuations not sub-
problems, could total cost of operating the Orange year. ject to the *3,000 homestead ex
be demonstrated County government and Naviga- As the home owners’ share of emption and only *6.588.890 In val
locally by the an- Ron and Port District and for pay- the total county tax revenue drop#, uations carrying the exemption
nouncement of tog off the county'# bond and war- thatjjf business and industry goeai These figures represent an in- continue
owners of that type crease * -------
iU pay a little over'.
expansion. ’ ' cent. I til per' cent of the total
Although this And for a large group of .these by the county government for its 1956 figures,
butadiene plant, home owners, as well as for the own purposes. ' <■ A total county rate of *1.#5, in
first unit in a owner* of non-homestead proper- The *52,313,755 roll completed eluding the special 30-cent farm
county's west side, Friday by the county’s tax asses- ... ‘ ~
He May Ask
Court Order
Against Ike
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 26
Jets Chase
Red Plane
X
From Area
WITH U. S. ITH FLEET OFF
TURKEY. Sept. 2* Uh-Pursuit
planes of the U. S. 6th Fleet with
‘shoot’’ orders went into action
this, week against an aircraft
snooping oh fleet maneuvers.
The Intruding plane believed
to have been ■ Russian jet on a
photographic mission-escaped to
Communist Bulgaria before Amer-
carrier pTahes
ce Adm. Charles R. Brown,
6th fleet commander, ordered
miesile • carrying Navy Jets to
shoot down the plane Thursday
when it flew over American am-
phibious forces off Turkey for
the fourth straight day. Brown
~t*s#*r Photo b?
MAN, IT'S GOOD
Fie-Eating Contestant Noses to Bottom of flat#
nuuiucmcm ui u,v «
the proposed r»"t debts declined this year to an up. This year ow
Firestone plant ■H’-time low of juat above 10 per of property will
e figures reprea
of *1,287.447 in
ittle over stead valuations and *511,270 in
collected homestead valuations above the
ter, has been
planned multi- ties
million dollar pe- /
trochemical cen-
In operation only
five months, a 50 per cent produc-
tion hike is now in the engineering
Otage. That means an eventual
lump in butadiene output from 40,-
000 to 60,000 tons a year.
Jamas E. Trainer, the executive
vice president of Firestone who in-
cluded the statement in a speech
at an annual banquet of the Or-
ange Chamber of FC o m m e r c e,
wouldn’t be pinned down on a date.
However, there can be little doubt
tlgat he was talking about the im-
mediate future.
In this particular Instance the
market gobbler through the eyes
of Firestone eyes is synthetic rub-
ber. Prediction—seizure of 65 per
cont of the 2.050,000 long tons of
rubber to be consumed annually in
this country by 1965.
Man, that’s a lot of rubber no
matter how you stretch It. in
this case they’re talking about
Synthetic rubber — all 1,*00,000
tons worth as a giant share of
the U.S. market.
Award
Employes of the following firms
have contributed at least 70 per
cent of a day's pay to the United
? Fun-Filled Program of Activities
HighliglfAnnual Kidi)ay Here
An estimated 400 Orknge chil-
Nnvv wins sk».u. .i«.iu <*rCT filtered into Tiger Stadium
m the sir soueh. nl.w * V^rday for the annual National
One carrier pilot remarked list- H'dJ}
non-home-the point of federal bayonets.
The governor also said he
"considered” taking legaj steps to r|erg jn the
omanders of the three car-
SS-WSi SSTL-tSfUl
the aim of preventing use of fed
eral troops at Little Rock. ., one c.rrtcr pi,ot hv . ,
er: "I was prepared to fire *°red by ,he local
first shot in World War III.”
The piane. a twin jet awing-wing
craft, turned away before reach-
hit-j pie eating contest and drawings
urn for — - - -
Faubus said the closing of Cen-
tral High “would be a very pleas-
ant development.”
He made the remark after .con-
tumf, riuwevm, me governor saia
County rates cited Include a *ctment °J oew "*w* * *P'J|
apecial 15-cent levy for the inde- *eM!2n U,e State Legialat
t>«,» ru.- would be necessary before «
It should fee noted that the local Fund and the concerns they work
butadiene plant supplies a major for have given their fair share,
portion of the butadiene for the Who will be next?
JOHN KERRY KING
American Bridge UF Leader
company’s synthetic rubber plants
at both Lake Charles and Akron.
And based on Trainer’s remarks it
ia going to supply even more.
Emphasizing a company policy
of becoming self-sufficient In Sup-
plying its own raw materials,
Trainer hinted that Coal rubber
(See P.S., Page 7)
Griffin’s
Fowler’s
Harding k Lawler
Goldfine’s
Orange National Bank
Gulf States Utilities Co.
Sherwin-Williams Co.
Texas Creosoting Co.
Sabine Chemical k Supply Co.
New County Subdivision Cod(
Due Test at Public Hearing
x,
By PHILIP LILLY
Orange County’s second attempt
to enforce a subdivision code will
b# given the test of a public hear-
on Ofct. 14 at 10 a.m. after
spread publication of the pro-
d code.
The code provides for a mini-
mum width of 50 feet of right-of-
way for roads and streets within
any countside subdivision.
It prohibits roads,
ABD Employes
Take Over Drive
to-market road fund levy, plus 42
cents in state levies, or an over-all
total rate of *2.37, Is. paid on the
non-homestead valuations.
Property subject to the home-
fund levy or the state ad'valorem „ tlW ™l The planew*, first spotted Mon-
taxes ; However, the governor said en- day when H flew at high altitude
wcial i over the American amphibious
ature force massed off Turkey for
necessary before such j NATO exercises 30 miles south of
drastic step as closing Central; Bulgaria. Navy officials said the
could be taken. Earlier he plane came from the direction of
said he was considering call- Bessarabia, across the Black Sea
such a session although he has and along the Romanian and Bui-
yet done so jgarian coasts.
He made It plain to newamen R made similar mid-day appear-
that there was "nothing definite" *nc«* Tuesday and Wednesday,
on his plans to try for an injunc- f'y,nI « higher than 35,000 feet
tion and emphasized that he was »"* •« ■ »P«<* of W0 m.p.h. The
merely considering the move. 6th Fleet tracked it by radar and
After Faubus made his state- by *ts v#R°r tr,i * but t00*t no
this year are somewhat higher about possible closing of firat threedays.
than actually necessary, but were Central High the Arkansas ^m- ^ T^rsday Hljd icp
retained at the 1956 figures on roc- *22$ » Li»'* Rock newspaper. ,
ommendatinn of Rauschcr Pierce1 P°ll<d * number of state legiala-,'ud8- *«*'n around mid-day, and
ommendation of Rauacher, Pierce Wrj >nd found {hem |ukew#rm! Brown issued the order to bring
(Set LITTLE ROCK, Page I) “ dow" lf lm*“ced th* c,rrier
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Kiwants Qub
to watch a fun-packed program of
activities
pendent Navigation and Port Dis-
trict.
And out of this year's total coun-
ty rates, 10 cents will be impound-
ed for uae in 1959. That amount
of the 25-cem rate bring levied for
the Conservation and Reclamation
& District’s purposes waa ordered
< set aside for one year as a result
of taxpayers’ objections to the dis-
trict's level of spending.
The total rates for all property
higher
NEWPORT, R L, Sept. 28 <ev— refuses to utilize its
s: jura asst asasss=» gSg
The, United Fund campaign
American Bridge Division, U.
Steel, will be strict!
drive
vision
Heretofore, the drive within the
company’s ranks haa been conduct-
ed by management. American
Bridge fa the first such industry
in Orange County to make the
changeover to employe solicitation.
The decision to conduct the cam-
paign in the new manner waa
made by a l a b o r-management
committee consisting of six rep-
resentatives from unions and aix
Co., fiscal agent for the pro-
posed five-million-dollar road bond
issue.
By so doing, the fiscal agent's
study of county finances disclosed,
the road bond program can be car-
ried on with minimum effect on
tax rates in the future.
Prooerty located in the Msu-
riceville and Bancroft School dls-
triers will be assessed for an extra
*1.50 per $100 valuation because
the county government levier and
Ike Hints Faubas 'Encouraged'
Mobs To Flout U.S. Court Order
Flood Control
Study Is Out
West Orange
Sets Tax Rate
not more than 1W.000 population
to require compliance with not
less than 50 nor more than 1W
After receiving the highest total feet rights-of-way* on main artery
valuation* figure on city property streets and road* within aubdivi-
*£"**«? TsSsPSL he*.*-
alleya from •'deadening" against
an existing subdivision.
A minimum right-of-way width
of 80 feet is provided for any
arterial, main lateral road or
street. ___________
The new code will be explained from management.
j» • To h“d the driv* at Am(
today tn The Orange Leader. i Bridge will be John
It became possible for this t welder who has been xun urc <rf Orange
_ _ ’ Kanheth Heagy in a letter dated
Texas Legislature. 1>e|fei|*r Makers Local NoT 587, one SeP*- » pnased th- word to L. H.
new law, which became effective the union* which is giving the Harmon, CAR chieftain, in answer
in late August, allow* counties of drive 100 per cent backing. I to a letter mailed the Corps of
*“ “ King said he haa been Msured E,toineer* Aug.
that 100 per cent backing also will
(See U.F., Page 7)
it Decame possipie iur ui» | welder who has been with the
ion. county to enact a lubdivision code company intermittently for 10
streets and with the pasaage of House Bill 289 yMrs fo, is a lteward for the
by the 1957 Texas Legislature. The boiler Makers Local No. 587, one
Tha chief of the engineering di-
vision of the Galveston District,
Corps of U.S. Army Engineers,
has notified the chairman of the
Orange County Conservation and
Reclamation District there are no
■t Amortr.n tonda available tor performing
K#rrv Kim." flood control feasibility studies on
Rim in the vicini*y
.♦i., in of Orange.
police pow-
moba per-
exercis-
Conettm-
j.*. .... ™— ----- court or-
er*! court-order* 00 school infe- dera, (tie oath of office of'the
grimpn. President requires that he take
The. President at the same tlme *ctlon to give the protection.
d^ied| that hi* orddr sending “Failure to act in such a case
troops into Little Rock would be tantamount
bore any resemblance to Hitlerian
tactics.
Eisenhower expressed his views
to acquies-
disaolution
cence in anarchy and
of the Union."
Russell, in a telegram sent
highhanded
being empl
force* In
ployed by the
Little Rock.
The request for a flood control court, encourages mob* of ex
atudy, according to Heagy. wlll be tremist* to flout the orders of a
forwarded to the chief of
in Washington with a letter
of the existing conditions at 'Or-
fOr the 1957 tax roll.
This is the same rate that ap-
plied last year but in some in-
stances property owners will be
paying more taxes. The reason for
this is the new roll was based on
the roll of West Orange School
District in which valuation reports
By Pritchard & Abbott, valuation
engineers, were used.
The total valuation upon which
the rate will be charged is *1,-
590,324. This represents 15 per
cent of the 100 per cent values of
$10,602,160.
The levy is expected to produce
*15,963.24 to run the government t<|j0jnjng C0Unty and includes aev-
operation* for the current budget erJ, jte£s th'e enginecr.
%C«y.««..»mmm wn&£ZcSSvJSrJlK
union’s Local
not less than 40 ndr more than
50 feet wide. -
It is also provided in the legisla-
tion that the street cut on main . . -
arteries within the right-of-way be of Co*™?* practices,
not less than 30 nor more 45 feet. Croas told a capacity crowd of
The section herein referred to j more than 2,000 persona at Man-
gives Commissioners Courts thejhattan Center that he might have
authority to adopt subdivision!made "errors in judgment" but
codes after a notice duly published that he was not dishonest.
In a newspaper of general circula- ..............
tion in the county affected.
J. G. (Gus) Foyle, county engi-
neer, drafted the code for the
countv by and with the help of
desirable features in the previous
code and one that is used in an
Bakery Union Boss Defends
Himself Againsf Charges WHEM
NEW YORK, Sept. 28 l*v-James “nf«-•PP*°Pr*‘e recommen-
S the^ikerv' *nd° olnfa-tinna rvi Bfe the chief of engineer,
todajfr »t a *oiay meeting of the ^ March 2, 1945 and a resolution
3 against charset nt fh* rnmmiif** m pimj rnn»mi
against charges 0f the Committee on Flood Control
of the House of Representatives
adopted March 20, IMS, Heagy
wrote.
"At this time, however, no funds
are available for performing the
(See STUDY, Page 6)
and illegal methods had pushed others down ■ street
federal | With bayonets at their throats.
1 The senator said the soldiers
The telegram did not mention were "disregarding and over-rid-
Faubus by name, but in an ob- tog the elementary right* of
viotta reference to the Arkansas American citizens by applying
chief executive the President, tectica which must have been
said: copied from the manual issued the
“When a state, by seeking to officer* of Hitler's atorm troop-
frustrate the orders of a federal era. . .
"However, aince you have seen
fit to order the troopers Into ec-
federal court, and when a state tion, they ahould observe the ele-
mentary righto of American citi-
zens who are violating no federal
law.”
Russell said million* of patriotic
Americana "will strongly reaent
the armed totalitarian police s ate
methods being employed at Little
I Rock.”
S The President, in his reply, de-
clared
i "I must say that I comple’ely
■ fail to comprehend your com
jTparison of our troops to Hitler’s
_ „ __ ... ! atornj troopers, to one case mill-
foreizn eld.” ! tSec IKE, Page «)
★
Publisher Suggests
ArkansasSecede
SWEETWATER, Sept. 21 (AP)
—Elmer Wright, publisher ef
the Sweetwater Reporter, wrote
today:
MA'’•"«!** «*vwM seced* from
the Union, declare war on the
United States, gat the hell beat
out ef them, then apply far
foreign eld.”
They observed the crowning of
two'Kid’s Day queens from the,lant».
junior and senior high school! As she
the award of four bicycles.
Selected as the senior queen was
Mary Louise Kemble, 17, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil B. Kem-
ble 1034 .Clairmont Dr. The Stork
High aenior was selected from
among a field of seven contea-
evet, model airplane dog fights,
1111
TIP*
Hi
SHE'S TOPS
Miss Kemblt Reigns
put it yesterday. "I
really didn’t expect to win. ! just
came out because my brother
wanted to take a picture.’> Run-
ner-up* were Nora‘Paul, 16, of 111
W. Azalea, Stark junior tn second
piace, and Norma Rudeseal. 16, of
33 Byron Rd., also a Stark junior,
third place.
The winning contestant in tha
junior high school division select-
ed a* queen was Becky Sweeney,
14, an eighth grade Carr student
who lives at 346 E Park. The
».-cond place winner was Marel
Lyn Martin, 12. of 1412 N. Hart,
while third-place honors went to
Marl Waken, 15-year-old Carr
student of 2106 N. C.riott i.
There were 26 contestants In the
jun or division which made judging
difficult for the nanel to d-ter-
mine winners. Judges were Mrs.
W. B. Waltman, Jimmy Conn, Sid
CaiP'vet Sr„ Mn. Dortithy Mill*
end Mr*. Hoy Gkinstream.
Both queens were crowned by
*«»}• Price who reigned es Mias
Kid a Day Queen last yeer. The
ton queens received numerous
prizes contributed by local mer-
chants, bouquets and other items
to recognition ef their titles
(See
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[muon oi uteir titles, s'
emlng contest was big fa*
. »"* MV, N„ „ _
Fire Damage
Runs Heavy
«,?!£*** e,timated in excess of
512.000 was reported yesterday
following two fires which occurred
Friday In the crew quarters of a
partially-completed drilling bergs
end in a Weat Orange residence.
A fire aboard the C. B. Webater
No. 604 being constructed at the
Levingaton Shipbuilding Co. brok*
out Friday at 5:*7 p.m. end waa
tapped out at 6:02 with fire fight-
Ing equipment standing by.
Levingaton official* said yester-
day there waa no determination
of the cause and estimated the loss
would compere to that of a real-
dence. The fire broke out in the
crew quarters of the barge being
constructed for the Webater Drill.
ing Co.
Fire
burned out wooden stud-
ding. plywood sheeting and other
a the 30' .
men. The ext*-
the 30 by 4Afoot room de-
ft !
I
No Pidee Along Gulf, Atlantic
Coasts Safe From Hurricanes
By G. K. HODENFJELl> .
WASHm - •* ,m
me and enact the levy after ac-
cepting the report of the board of
equalization. That board had com-
pleted its work only one day
edrlier.
Mra. John Crawley, city secre-
f, submitted the figures to the
_ „ Alderman Jack Dardeau
missed the special session held at
hall. Mayor Ellis Carter pre-
d and Council members pres-
were El wood Pierce, Carroll
, Curtis Armstrong and
Chinn.
POLITICAL GROUP
,T, Morocco, Sept. 28 »-
political group des-
an "Islamic Socialist
movement” was formed here to-
day. The group proclaimed sup-
tor the Algerian rebel* and
faith in Morocco** king,
ned V.
pro-
posed code and offered only two
minor changes. He suggested re-
moval of “the” in one instance in
referrence to "the city" and the
change was "to any city-” The
other dealt with a change of the
same word
Nest Tuesday Foyle will meet
at 5 p.m. with the Orange City
Planning and Zoning Commission
and the city engineer, Joe Jenkins,
to see if there ia any overlapping
in the city zoning oidinance and
the proposed county code.
Hie county official will also dis-
cuss the proposed five-million-dol-
lar road bond issue.
"In trees where there wilt be
(Set CODE. Page •)
SHINGTON, Sept 2* <*-H,
you live within 300 mile* of the
Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of
Mexico, it’* juat a question of time
until you get smacked by a hurri-
cane. And when It comes, you
should hope tor the best but ex-
pect the worst.
That waa the word today from,wind
the Weather Bureau, taken from a1 inated with the Carib
wealth of statistics dating back name applies only
70 years. {leal storms in the Atlantic
In the last tour year* alone, hur-iGulf of Mexico and Caribbean
ricanes have token more than*and in the Pacific Ocean
1,000 lives and caused more thanlCentral America and Mexico,
one Wlllo® <Wlars i" P«>P?rty| i„ ,he China Sea and Western
damage. If hurricane-caused flood j Pacific the hurricane la called a
damage* are Inc luted, the coat typhoon In the Philippines
goes up another billion dollars, gaauio, and in the Ba
Th* worst may be over for this and the Indiaii Ocean a cyclone,
the bureau indicated, since Australians have their own name
signed to house _
tor waa built of steel. No workmen
were in that particular area which
had been closed off at the end of
the day shift. However, other yard
employe* were aboard working In
other areas of the drilling barge
which waa anchored on the Texaa
aide of the Sabine River.
The second fire in a wood frame
; residence on Helton street to Greer
Addition was tapped out Friday tt
1:30 a m, Damage here, covered
by insurance, was estlmn'ed at
*2,500 by Fire Marshal Tommy
Bwfiokt "
Sorrels said yesterday the blaze
at the Mathew M. Btzzano home
from 25 to 500 miles to width, and’ «»uld have started from a smoul-
may be anywhere from 100 to l,- dering cigarette Two bedrooms
000 miles long over land areas. furniture were completely ent-
Hufticane winds, betides knock- ted and there waa extensive smoke
ing down houses, toppling tree* end water damage to other sec-
and snarling power lines, have ttons of the house. A ctqget and
been known to blow railroad wall Intween the two rooms also
trains right Off their tracks. burned out completely.
Tha worst hurricane means "big There was no one home at the
to have orig- time and neighbors earlier had ob-
ib Indians. The served smoke seeping from under-
to.aeVere trop- neath the house and thought in-
•ect fogging operations were un-
der way.
When the West Orange Volun-
**‘“f Fire Department truck an
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