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VOL. 81.—NO. 211.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1959.
12 PAGES — 2 SECTIONS —5 CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Austin, July 21 (AP) —
The House of Representa-
tives in Austin has passed
by a voice vote the record
2 billion, 400 million dol-
lor general appropriations
bill.
They voted also to take
$350,000 from the cigarette tax
fund to pay the expenses of the
third special called session.
That brings to total cost of the
legislature since January to
$3,050,000.
Earlier, a city against coun-
try-area squabble has broken
out in the Texas legislature.
The fight is over an amend-
ment to remove the farjn mar-
ket road program fiom the gen-
eral revenue fund.
The Fort Worth representa-
tive, Scott McDonald, offered
the amendment to take the 30
million dollar farm market pro-
gram from the general revenue
fund and require the highway
department to continue its pro-
gram from the fuel tax reven*
Mueller Picked
For Secretary
Of Commerce
Washington, July 21 tP —
President Eisenhower has nom-
inated Frederick Henry Muel-
ler of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
for promotion to Secretary of
Commerce. Mueller has been
Undersecretary of Commerce
since Dec. 3rd, 1058 and before
that was assistant secretary
for domestic affairs for 2
years.
Mueller has be.en acting sec-
retary since Rear Admiral
Lewis Strauss stepped out of
the Commerce secretarship af-
ter the Senate rejected his
nomination. Strauss had been
serving under a recess appoint-
ment while congress was not,
in session. Mueller was horn
in Grand Rapids in 1893.
IOOF OFFICERS—New officers of Sulphur Springs’ l.O.O.F lodge were installed at a
■ public .ceremony Monday night. Dewitt Loyd (in suit) was installed as the Noble Grand,
i Other officers installed included, left to right, front row, R. C. Bradford, George Mills,
Johnnie Davis, Jr., Loyd, Joe Bohannon, Bill Davis and W. C. Martin, and rear, Ernest
Watson, Charles Davis, L. B. Jordon and Lawson Smith. (Staff Photo by Cody Greer).
_
Ike Reported Pessimistic
Over Big Four Conference
Stale Officials
Keeping Watch
On Crude Prices
Austin, July 21 J* — An-
xious state officials are keep-
ing a close watch on the de-
pressed oil industry’s latest bad
news—a 20 cent a barrel cut
in the price of East Texas
( rude oil by one major produc-
er.
If the price cut spreads to
other areas and companies, the
slowly decreasing price of oil
in Texas may plunge rapidly. A
major portion of the state’s
income comes from oil and gas
product ion.
The state comptroller's office
says the oil picture will be
studied for the next day or so
before a new deficit estimate
is given to the legislature.
British Reject
Stingy Charge
London, July 21 '.Ti —- The
House of Commons last night
rejected a Laborite charge that
Britain’s Conservative govern-
ment is stingy with aid to un-
derdeveloped countries.
The vote was 313-192.
Laborite spokesman Philip
Nod-Baker complained that,
Britain stands only 20th on the
list of contributors to United
Nations specialized agencies.
The annual British contribu-
tion, he said, represents only
one penny — or slightly more
than one cent, US —- per head
of the population, while a
small country like New Zealand
pays seven times more on such
a basis.
Frederick Knoll, financial
secretary of the treasury, re-
plied that British efforts stand
comparison with any . other
< ountry.M thou they cannot
match the massive aid of the
United States.
Washington, July 21 ‘if —-I
President Eisenhower is re- |
ported pessimistic on chances
of a summit conference. As-
sociated Press White . House |
correspondent Marvin Arrow-,
smith, reporting on excellent j
authority, says the President
believes chances for a top lev- j
el conference have become j
steadily dimmer in the past
10 days.
Arrowsntith says Eisenhow-
er’s pessimism is based on con-
fidential reports from the for-
eign ministers conference. He
believes that Russia’s attitude
on Berlin is now tougher than
ever.
The AP man says he alsoj
can report on excellent author-.
ity these presidential views:
The President is still willing |
to attend a summit meeting—|
providing progress is made at
]Geneva.
He is not convinced (he Rus-
sians really want a summit
meeting, believing the Kremlin
may actually be aiming at
splitting the Western allies. I
j He is also convinced the |
I Soviet leaders do not want a j
j major war. bid is fearful that!
Russian miscalculations or j
j some series of developments 1
■ could touch off a conflict.
! Or. domestic mattW’s, Ar-
j rowsmith reports that the Pres-,
ident sees no leal hope for a!
| tux cut during' the remainder |
: of this term in office. Quoting-
high authority, the AP man
Isays it is known however, that
the President at this time is
planning no cull for a tax in-
crease.
| The AP writer says the
I President has put both Vice
President Nixon and New
York’s Governor Nelson Rocke-
feller among a gioup of 10 Re-
publicans he considers well
qualified to be president. But
the President plans to say noth-
ing to influence the GOP
nomination unless he believes
the prize might go to a can-
didate holding political views
alien to his own.
The President is pictured as
being extremely reluctant at
the present time to invoke the
Taft-Hartley law in the steel
strike. But he does not rule
out such a possibility.
Desegregation
Problems Given
School Lawyer
Houston, July 21 W — The I
Houston school hoard has turn- j
etl its desegregation problems
over to its attorney.
The board has instructed i
Joe Reynolds to handle the J
matter. It gave the attorney i
no suggestions or recommen-1
dutions.
Federal Judge Ben Connal-I
ly has ordered the board to |
file by' August 17th its plan I
for desegregation, if such a
plan exists. Three plans have j
been placed before the board j
but none has been adopted.
Reynolds says he will place 1
all three plans before Connal-j
iy.
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Hay for Toast
La Rochette, France, July-
21 — Jumbo the elephant
lumbered into the village of
La Rochette in southeast-
ern France, on the first leg
of an attempt to retrace
Hannibal’s route through
the Alps on his effort to con,
quer Rome.
A band played for Jumbo
—and he was met by the
mayor of the town, who
drank a toast to his tuccesi.
The elephant got a bale of
hay.
Atomic-Powered Ship
Launched at Ceremony
NEARS HALF-WAY MARK
Woman’s Building
Fund Tops $15,000
Fire Ants Found
In North Dallas
Dallas, July 21 i.T) — Feder-
al. state and local authorities
plan action to halt an invasion
of fire ants reported in noith-
west Dallas.
Health officials say colonies
of the vicious insects have been
found in sparsely settled areas
near the city limits.
Texas A & M has confirmed
that the ants found in the
mound-like nests are fire ants.
The ants have an ununsually
painful bite which sometimes
is fatal to humans and is us-
ually lethal for small animals.
They destroy crops, lawns,
young trees and wildlife and
have been blamed for the
deaths of livestock in some
areas.
City crews plan to use hep-
tachlor poison against the ants.
Traffic Safety
Stressed in Talk
WEATHER
EAST TEXAS, SOUTH CENTRA!.
TEXAS AND NOH’t H CENTRAL
TEXAS CcnsMerable .*!<-inline*. with
m'fttteiecj *Tvuniit'r.hii wi:r* Ihrouxli Wed-
nesday. NO important temperature
changes.
NORTHWEST TEXAS ANIJ
ycrtlTHWEST TEXAS Partly cloudy
though Wednesday 'adth acatternd aft,
crni-nl rind night time thnnderdrn-ms.
No important temperature change*.
John V. Goolsby, secretary j
and agency supervisor of the j
Republic Insurance Company '
of Dallas, spoke on traffic |
safety at the weekly meeting j
of the Sulphui Springs Lions
Club at noon Tuesday.
Goolsby's speech was en-
titled “The American Tra-
gedy,” and he opened his talk
by saying that "people of the
United States sanction the
wholesale slaughter on the
highways and have an indif-
ferent attitude about tiaffic
deaths.” .
“Thii ty-nine^Ho 40 thou-
sand persons are killed yearly
on the highways of the United
States, and automobile acci-
dents have already taken the
lives' of 39 million Ameri-
can." he pointed out.
“The citizens of the United
States sanction this- -slaughter
because the privilege of driv-
ing is permitted by the, peo-
ple,” he said.
"The citizens vote the laws
that regulate traffic, enforce
the laws and punish the law-
violator.-, ” he stated.
In pointing out the public’s
indifference To the^ traffic
deaths. Goolsby stated that*
"death resulting from an au-
tomobile accident is practical-
lyv4tK>ked upon as death by
natural cause,"
‘‘In the past 11 years, SO
children have suffocated in
abandoned ice boxes. Twenty-
three of these children died
in ice boxes in 1953, and the
citizens became alaimed ami
ignited a nation - wide cam-
paign to do away w-Kh aban-
doned boxes," he added.
"In the same year, 5,(H)0
children died in" traffic acci-
dents attd yet not £t public tear
was shed,” he explained.
“Eleven persons were killed
when an aii plane crashed into
a rgsidefltiixl district in Eliz-
betb-, New Jersey. not too
many yeats ago. The citizens
' (Continued On l’age Six)
Heavy Clouds
Pose Threat
Oi More Rain
Storm conditions remained j
| a threat in East Texas Tues-
] day, although rains were less
| intense than those of the past
few days and weather observ-
ers cited a general drying
trend.
Clouds filled the skies in
the Sulphur Springs area, but
no rain had developed up to
mid-afternoon.
Temperatures were considers
bly warmer than those which
accompanied Monday's lainy
conditions.
The mercury reached only
78 degrees for a high read-
ing Monday. The overnight
low was 70 degrees.
Ralph Hill, local weather
observer, reported the tem-
perature Tuesday noon as 85
degrees, relative humidity us
62 per cent and barometric
pressure as 30.10 inches.
Century Lake was overflow-
ing its dam as runoff water
accumulated in White Oak
Creek. City Manager Jack
Henderson estimated the lake
picked up from 15 to 18 inch-
es of water.
Show ers w e r e peppering
Central and East Texas this
afternoon a n d thumlei heads
were pievalent in many sec-
tions. No heavy lain had been
leported, however.
Car Damaged
In Collision
\Ii-m4l*. damages to one car
resulted from a collision at 2:10
p. m. Monday at the intersec-
tion of the square and Connal-
!y Street. There were no in-
i juries.
1 Involved in the accident were
| a 195‘J Ford driven by Billy
j Wavne Williamson of Russel
| Drive and a 1955 Ford pick-up
I truck driven by Bertha Gray
i Rhodes of Route 2, Conic).-
According to investigating
J police officers, both cars were
driving around the square
I when Williamson applied his
j brakes to slow down for pre-
ceding traffic. Mrs. Rhodes
failed to slow her car suffi-
eently and ran into the hack
| end of the Williamson car.
Damage to the car was'T’s-
tivnated at $50. There was no
! damage to the pick-up.
I 1...
New subscriptions totaling
$1,145 were added to the
Woman’s Club Building Fund
Tuesday at a second meeting
of special gifts division work-
ers.
Solicitation in the division
is far from complete.
The additional subscriptions
bring the total amount raised
by the special gifts group to
$3,115 and the grand total for
the building fund to $15,657 -
74. The figures include both
cash and pledges.
Cost of the new building is
$33,000, exclu-3!''e of equip-
I00F, Rebekah
Lodges Install
New Officers
Dewitt Loyd was installed
as Noble Grand of Bright Star
Lodge 71, IOOF, and Mrs. Dan
Mourgos was installed as Noble
Grand of the Kebekahs at- of-
ficer installation ceremonies
of the organizations Monday
night.
Other officers of Blight
Star Lodge 71 installed were
Cleo Tollison, Vice Grand; Joe
Bohannon, Right Supporter for
Noble Grand; E. M. William-
son, Left Supporter for Noble
Grand; and Ruel Bradford,
Warden.
Others were George Mills,
Conductor; Bill Davis, Outside
Guardian; W. C. Martin, In-
side Guardian; L. B. Jordan,
Chaplain; and Charles Davis,
Left Scene Supporter for Vice j
Grand.
Also John Davis, Right Scene
Supporter for Vice Grand;
Ernest Watson, Right Support-
er for Vice Grand; and Adrian |
Whitehurst, Left Supporter
for Vice Grand.
Other officers installed in
the Rebekahs were Mrs. J. I).
Orr, Right Supporter for No-
ble Grand; Mrs. A. W. Mc-
Mullan, Left Supporter for
Noble Grand; Mrs. Haskel Al-
berts, Warden; and Mrs.
George Conner, Conductor.
Also Mrs. Willie Owens, col-
or bearer; Mrs. Gladys De-
Bord, musician; Mrs. Effie
Smith, Inside Guardian; Mrs.
L. B Jordan, Outside Guard-
ian; and Mrs. Dan McGrady,
Chaplain.
merit and other incidentals.
The site for the civic events
center on College Street is al-
ready owned by the nine spon-
soring women’s organizations.
Two Types of Plaques
Two types of plaques will be
placed in the new building,
the Memorial Committee -has
decided. One will’ honor living
persons. The other will be in
memory of persons who have
died.
Dr. S- M. Hill of Dallas be-
came the first sponsor of a
living memorial with the gift
of $250 to the fund in honor
of Mrs; Hill.
With the special gifts divi-
sion contacting prospects for
larger subscriptions, Sulphur
Springs \vqmen will conduct a
“sunrise drive” July 28 seek-
ing participation on a smaller
scale. A house-to-house can-
vass of the city i> planned. .
New subscriptions announc-
ed Tuesday in the special gifts
<ivivo included:
$250 — Red Star Fertilizer
Division, Dr. S. M. Hill.
$100 — Red Ball Motor
Freight.
$50 —Ardis & Leggett, Bill
Taylor, Brian Dairy Supply,
Westbrook Lumber Company,
Sulphur Springs Piggly-Wiggly.
$30 — Brice lnsu r a n c e
Agency, Gerald Prim, Myrick
Insurance, R. W. Curtin.
$25 — A. B. Ardis Motor
Company.
$20 — Dr. Ray Hanna.
$10 — Babcock Brothers,
L. L. Hall, Henry Mahaffey.
PRESIDENT — Cuba’s new
president, Dr. Oscaldo Dor-
ticos, is shown in Havana
after he was appointed by
the Council of Ministers to
replace Dr. Manuel Urru-
tia. (NEA).
Houston Child
Found Slain
Houston, July 21 (A*) — The
nude body of 12-year-old Wil-
liam Bodenheimer the third
has been found in an aban-
doned shack near the boy’s
home in Houston.
Detective A. E. Rackwell
says “it’s murder I think.”
The boy has been missing
since mid-afternoon yesterday.
Police are seeking a 25-year-
old man for questioning.
I Camden, N.J., July 21
I (AP) — The launching of
the first a t o m-poxvered
merchant ship, the Savan-
nah, was hailed today as
a bold and enterprising
i experiment.
I Acting Secretary of Com-
merce Frederick Mueller made
j that comment in an address
prepared for delivery at launch-
I ing ceremonies at Camden.
Mueller said of the 21,000-
I ton vessel:
i “This ship was born of the
inspiration of our distinguish-
ed President Dwight D. Eisen-
hower and became a reality
through his leadership and en-
thusiasm translated into legis-
lation by the congress of the
United States.”
The President’s wife was on
hand to christen the ship.
Board chairman Ix>uis Wolf-
son of the New York Ship-
building Corporation, which is
building the Savannah, an-
I nounced the establishment of
| the Mamie Eisenhower award.
| It will be presented annually
1 by the corporation to. the per-
son or oiganization who, in
the opinion of vthe maritime
board, makes ‘he most out-
standing contribution to the
advancement of nuclear pro-
pulsion.
Wolfson said of the launch-
ing:
‘‘It means the birth of an en-
tire new era for merchant
shipping, and new hopes the
world over for the furtherance
of nuclear power for peaceful
purposes.”
Another speaker was Repub-
lican Senator Clifford Case of
New Jer«ey. He said the Se-
van null is only the beginning
of development of nuclear ves-
sels of all kinds.
Commissioners Okay
Relocation Assistance
Mrs. T. R. Rurk
Dies Monday
Mrs. T. B. Burk, 79-year-
old resident of Sul p h u r.
Springs, died at Memorial Hos-
pital Monday afternoon.
Funeral services were held
at 3:00 p. m. Tuesday at the
chapel of Tapp Funeral Home
with the Rev. Alvin Lay, as-
sisted by the Rev. E. M. Bain,
officiating.
Interment vgus at Peerless
cemetery.
Born Dec. 24, 1879 ir. Ten-J
nessee, Mrs. Burk was the ;
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doc
Beaton.
She moved to Hopkins Coun-
ty with her parents when only |
four years old and hail been a j
resident in thi.- county foi the I
past 75 years.
Mis. Burk married T. B. i
Buurk, who preceded her in j
death. She was a member of
the Central Baptist Church. |
Mrs. Rurk is survived by one |
daughter, Mrs. Jessie Mae Ar-
(Continued on Page Six)
City Council
Plans Meeting
The city commissioners will
hold their semi-monthly meet-
ing Tuesday night at 7:30- in
the city building.
City Manager Jack Hender-
son said today only routine
type business has been schedul-
ed for the session.
Members of the Hopkins i
County Commissioners’ Court I
Monday afternoon voted to |
pay one-half the actual cost;
of re-locating and lowering a j
20 inch Magnolia Pipeline!
Company pipe crossed by farm- j
to-market road 852 near Coke, j
The amount paid by the !
county is not to c x c e e d j
$2,294.52, which is 50 perj
cent of the estimated cost of!
re-locating, re-lowering and
casing the pipe.
Members of the court reach-
ed a settlement with the pipe-
line company after meeting |
with K. L. Phillips, represents- j
tive of the 'company, Monday |
afternoon. 1
The state highway depart- j
merit notified officials of the ,
pipeline company earlier that ;
the line will have to be lowered j
from its present depth of ap-j
proximately three feet to nine
feet.
Company officials estimated
the cost of lowering the line
at $4,560 and last week ask-
ed the county to bear half of
the expense.
County Judge W. B. Kitts
explained Tuesday morning
that the road crosses only 157
feet of the line, however, the
line will have to be lowered,
cased and worked on for ap-
proximately 450 feet.
Members of the Hopkins
County coirt at first declined
to meet the company's figure,
but, after studying the expen-
sive operation Monday, agreed
to pay one-half the cost, not
to exceed $2,294.52.
Motion was made to bear
half the expense by Commis-
sioner Bill Miller and second-
ed by Commissioner Raymon
Stewart. The motion carried
on a unanimous vote.
Order Restored
In Iraqi Oil
Center Uprising
Cairo, July 21 W — Reports
reaching Cairo say Iraqi gov-
ernment forces have succeeded
in restoring order in the oil
center of Kirkuk after fight-
ing between Communists and
tribesmen. Informants just re-
turned from Baghdad say the
army still appears loyal to
Premier Kassem, despite re-
ports that some Iraqi troops
mutinied during the fighting.
Israel Fails
To Form New
Government
Tel Aviv, July 21 W" —
Prime Minister Ben-Gurion has
announced failure to form a
new government. But he has
offered to remain in a care-
taker basis until the next par-
liamentary elections, probably
i in November.
'••.A,’
REBEKAH OFFICERS were installed at the Bright Star lodge hall on Connally Street
. s' • » i ~ U4 VInttJh KAnruii- Ftkal
Mondav night. The new officers include, first row, left to right. Mattie Conner. Ethel
>(••[!< Bonnie McMullan, Maurine Hale, Gladys DeBord and Effie SmithT middle row, J
Iris Orr, Verna M-.Gt.idy and Lillie Mae Owens, and back iow, Roberta. Alberts, LueiH* |
Jordan, Mamie Alourgos, .Helen Blue and Beitha Massey. (Staff Photo by G\>dr *•**•**»,
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