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SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1959.
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Weather Foreeast
Clear
MEMBER ASSOCIATED TRESS
Budget Board Action
Rapped by Governor
Murmers of Spring
SULPHUR SPRINGS citizens ma> expect below normal tempoiii-
tuies and moderate precipitation during March, according to the
U. S. Weather Bureau’s long-range foiecast.
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AT SCENE—Arkan-as Gov. Orval Faubus talks to newsmen at
the scene of a rtisasterous fire that claimed 21 lives at the Ark-
ansas Negro Boys Industrial School at Wrightsville. Faubus,
visibly shaken, said that he had inspected the school about a year
ago and "everything was fine then.” (NEA Telephoto).
PASSAGE DOUBTED
Selective Sales Tax
Reported Near Form
I Austin, Mar. 6 (AP)
Governor Daniel Has accus-
: etl the Legislative Budget
i Board of practically surren-
dering Texas rights and
power for water develop-
ment to the federal government.
The governor said, "It is high
time we match our talk about
state's rights with the money to
do what a state government
should do in proper exercise of
those rights."
Daniel spoke at his 2nd state-
wide water committee session at
Austin. He warned again of the
threat if federal control over Tex-
as' water if the state failed to as-
sirtne leadership.
Daniel said the 100 committee
members should support the state
board of Water Engineers’ bud
get requests for about $1,700,-
000 annually for 1900 and 61.
The governor said he originally
clipped off a little, but now felt
the board should have all the
money it requested. The ''Legis-
lative budget board cut the board’s
request to about $900,000 a year.
Daniel said, "State leadership
in water planning will require
over $1,700,000 for each year,
yet," he* continued, "There are
those who would cut this figure
almost in half.”
The governor did not name the
Legislative Budget Board by
name.
MODERATE-
LIGHT
Leaders Agree on Firm
US Stand Against Reds
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The temperature outlook for March calls for near normal or
above the seasonal normals over the greater part of Ihe country.
A selective sales tax proposal
is reported taking form as a
Texas house committee’s major
answer to the state’s revenue
problems, State Representative
Joe N. Chapman said Friday.
Such a tax would apply only to
specified articles instead of all
purchases.
Chapman expressed doubt that
such a measure would be approv-
ed by the house in view of resent-
ment already being voiced against
the plan due to its discriminatory
nature.
The taxation committee is fac-
ing a tough problem whatever its
final decisions may be, the legis-
lator added.
Countv Bill Puaed
Given final approval by the
house this week was a bill author-
izing the Lake Fork Water Con-
trol and Improvement District to
levy a small tax agajgpt land that
will be directly benefitted by the
reservoir construction program
planned in the watershed.
★
Losing Business
Chattanooga, Tenn., Mar. 6 IH
- Peddling tamales was a los-
ing business for Lawrsnct War-
ren in Chattaaooga.
He told police two men order-
ed $2.70 worth, then ran off
without paying.
While he was chasing the
pair, somebody stole the whole
cart.
Six Candidates
Bid for Trustee
Positions Here
TEC Foresees
Record High
Employment
Ike-Macmillan
Plan Conference
Washington, Mar. fi 'JR — Talks
:are to start between President
Austin, Mar. 6 UP — Employ-' Eisenhower and British Prime
ment in Texas should reach a i Minister Macmillan in 2 weeks. A
record high in 1959, with the : joint announcement in London and
climb beginning this month. I Washington says the prims minist-
The Texas Employment Com-'er will arrive in the U. S. capital
mission makes this statement to-j Mar. 19th.
day in its monthly report. The re-1 The Eisenhower-Macmillan talks
port says a decline of about are to begin Mar. 20th. Their
73,000 since December in non-' duration is indefinite. The an-
farm employment is seasonal. | nouncement speaks only of in-
Non-farm jobs totaled nearly 3 formal discussions lasting a few
million on February 1st. This was days.
The chief topic is expected to
be the developing Berlin crisis and
Macmillan’s recent conference in
No additional^ candidates for
the April 4 school election joined
the competition as the deadline
passed Thursday aft-
Most of the area concerned lies
in the southwestern part of Hop- j f°r filing
kins County. Revenue raised by, ernoon.
the tax would be used to maintain | Expiration of the legal period
tfi“e reservoir structures after they|^or closing the lists left six aspir-
are built.
The legislation authorizes a tax
of 45 cents an acre annually
against overflow land that will be
directly benefitted by the big
ants for the three expiring terms
as trustees of the Sulphur Springs
Independent School District.
They include three incumbents,
Henry George Smith, Gilbert Mc-
20,800 more than had been esti
mated.
Unemployment was also higher
than anticipated, with 191,000 Moscow with Soviet Premier
people out of work. This was Khrushchev. Washington will he
10,500 above the commission’s the 3rd major allied capital visited
estimate. i by Macmillan after Moscow. He
Fewer employes were noted in will go to Paris and Bonn next
transportation and utilities. In- week.
creases were in construction, re-, Macmillan will be accompanied
tail trade, services and govern- to Washington by Foreign Secre-
ment. j taryw Selwyn Lloyd.
According to advance reports,
Macmillan is expected to urge
Eisenhower to reduce his condi-
tions for a summit meeting with
Khrushchev. The British leader
apparently is convinced that
Khrushchev is determined to push
his German demands to a very
dangerous extreme.
The Kremlin is demanding with-
drawal of the Western powers
from Berlin and also a German
★
Crazy About Kites
Lincoln, Neb., Mzr. 6 ——
Eleven year old Rodney Hilt Wai
out flying his kite in the midst
of a roaring snowstorm at Lin-
coln.
The boy’s mother explained
to neighbors that Rodney had
started to shovel snow but be-
gan to wear out. She added:
“Hi* kite was handy so he de-
cided to fly it . . . He’s just
crazy about kites."
Band Students
! Enter Contest
At Commerce
I Sulphur Springs High School
j has entered seven soloist and six
| ensembles hi Ihe region XV high
[ school contests in East Texas
State Music building at Com-
merce Satmday.
The soloists will include Gor-
don (ironshaw, trombone; Miller
Steinsick, alto suxaphone; Tom-
my Green, Trumpet; Kenneth
Wisdom, baritone; Bill Hendrix,
French horn; David Kuykendall,
trumpet; and Nan Irvin, bassoon.
Ensembles will include Bill
Hendrix, David Couch and David
Kuykendall, trumpet trio; Lewis
Mehaffey, (I o r <1 e n Crenshaw,
Tommy Green and David Couch,
brass quartet; and Animder Elli-
ott, (iioria Griffin, Linda Strick-
land and Sheny Vititou; clarinet
ensemble.
Other ensemble entries from
Sulphur Springs will be Cathrine
Sauter, Betty Davis, J. K. Crain
anil Rose Bearden, clarinet quar-
tet; Kay Bullard, Linda Rawson
and Barbara Bell, flute trio; and
John Bevis, Bob Lockhart, B. J.
Halhcox and Miller Steinsiek, sax-
aphone quarete.
Sulphur Springs will he one of
22 hands expected to participate
in the contest.
★
Lucky 13th
Friday, March 13, can be
viewed as a lucky day by stu-
dents in the Sulphur Springs
school system.
They will receive an un-
scheduled holiday while teachers
attend a district meeting of the
Texas State Teachers Associa-
tion at Lufkin.
The stroke of good fortune
has its qualifying aspects from
the student viewpoint, however.
Since the holiday is not a
recognised one, the lost time
must he made up by the end of
the school year.
Sheriff's Force
Removes Man
To Penitentiary
*
Sherman
project. It now must obtain sen- Gr*d<‘ aml Dr. Omer Kmkpatrick
n n / I n n /.r\ r. a , . ■ t i n n n 1 n t a -. —-I— r. .. » ,4
Lacefield, a Claren-
don man, was taken to Huntsville
to begin serving a three year eace treaty
prison sentence by members, of;
the sheriff’s office Friday.
Lacefield was sentenced by
Judge L. L. Bowman for parole
violation Feb. 28.
He was sentenced to a five year
probated sentence for concealing
mortgaged property in 1957. Sev-| Cherry Point, NT C
era! months ago he removed mort- — Eight Marines
gaged property from Hopkins, their cargo plane crashed in a
would create a Red River Valiev I „ . .. , County. He was arrested in ( lar- ; driving rainstorm while coming
Authority with sweeping powers I co"trover!,y existing over school endon by Sheriff Paul Jones last, down for a landing at Cherry
over the Red River and its Texas! r’oll< ie». iweek. Point. One crewman survived,
tributaries.
ate approval.
Chapman said he agree* with
the position taken by directors of
the Sulphur River Municipal Wat-
er District and other area agencies
and an opposition slate composed
of Allen Gammill, Sam Bonham
and Jeston Williams.
Preparations are being made to
handle a comparatively heavy
Eight Marines
Perish in Crash
Hopkins County
Man Returns
To Jail Cell
A Hopkins, f'ounty man, he iri#
hold in city jail for non-payment
of delinquent fines, was loose for
five and a half hours Thursday
after escaping when a patrolman
failed to lock the jail door.
He escaped at 12:30 p.m. and
walked hack into the jail and sur-
rendered at 0:00 p.m. of hi- own
will.
The patrolman was given « 1 -r>
day suspension without pay and
the prisoner was once again be-
hind bars Friday morning.
in opposition to legislation which J vote in the election due to the
Seaman Relates
M. C., Mar. 6 'JR XT -a-l
died, today when JlaiTOW hSCSDC
e crashed in a *
From Collision
Sulphur Springs
Students Compete
In Math Tests
Bright Sunshine Sends
Temperatures on Climb
Slayer Celebrates
End of Parole
With New Killing
Houston, Mar. 6 (JR — A 40-
ycar-old convicted murderer from
Cut and Shoot, Texas, Tom Ains-
worth, celebrated the end of his
parole in Houston last night by
buying a jug of gin and killing a
man.
A fiO-year-old Negro, Clarence
Whitehead, died early today in a
Houston hospital. He had been
stabbed 12 times during a fight on
a vacant lot.
Ainsworth, a white man, said,
“He tried to take my gin."
Ainsworth, a bronc rider, said
he stubbed Whitehead after the
Negro pulled a knife.
Ainsworth had served 17
months on a 4-year murder sen-
tence for shooting a man to
death at Jewett in 1955.
A new murder charge was filed
against him today.
WEATHER
LAST AND SO I’’! M 'ENTRAP TEXAS
f'|*nr It. i.wrtly «|f.'i«fy thrt.ujfh Siitur-
<1. y A lilil** wHirn' r Ih s i.ft4>rnoon and
t/ u ii'Lf
NORTH < E NT R A I. TEXAS G«t.*thIIv
fmi thrtiiyh EiU Urdu v A lift I #* warmer fhi*
aft«rri<»>n hi id Uriiyht «n flu*
w***i mdiI north portion* tonight.
WEST TEXAS <»•*>«. tally lair ihrmiyb
Si i u»da v A I it i !*• warrmr ♦ hi* a ft« r noon
and : ri mu*t arc t ion a tonight I,ow***t 2't
to To in th«- f'nnhaand 'ipp«*r South
f'jrf’i.n* umI to ,40 ♦•Ufwh«,r»i tonight.
Trustee Contest
Looms at Como;
6 Seek Posts
Competition has developed in
only one school district in Hopkins
County outside of Sulphur
Springs, according to reports Fri-
day.
Six candidates for three posi-
tions on the Como school board
formally filed with County Judge
W. B. Kitts before the deadline at
midnight Thursday.
Conley Coker, Chester McGreg-
or and James Johnson will oppose
incumbents Jack Matthews, Lloyd
Gillem and Paul Flora at Como.
The school trustee elections are
scheduled on Saturday, April 4.
Ait other* who ■ filed' for por-
tions before the Thursday dead-
line will be running unopposed for
re-election.
Harvey Ethridge and Frank
Garmon filed for trustee positions
in the Miller Grove Rural High
School District.
Alex Brice filed for re-election
as county school board member at
large.
J. L. Young filed for re-election
as trustee member of precinct
number four and Walter F John-
son filed for trustee member of
precinct number one.
Joe Bain and W. H. Browning
filed for trustee positions at Pick-
ton.
Russian Trawlers
Ordered Released
Washington, Mar. 6 (AP)
—President Eisenhower and
congressional leaders from
both parties have agreed on
a united stand of firmness
against. Soviet threats. Dem-
ocratic and Republicans joined on
a note of unity after a 90-minute
conference with the President to-
day. However, they emphasized
firmness does not mean unwilling-
ness to negotiate.
Senate Democratic chief Lyn-
don Johnson told newsmen after
the conference: “There is no
thought of yielding to pressure.”
He went on to say, however, that
the US and its ailies are deter-
mined to look into every avenue
which could keep peace with hon-
or.
The congressional leaders who
attended the conference said the
President had not proposed any
specific action for congress to
take reganding Berlin.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn—
among those who attended—said
later; "The upshot is that we are
united.” He added: "We have no
parties in this thing.” He went
on to say that all the leaders
agree with Eisenhower that “we
must be firm and remain firm.”
Rayburn was asked whether he
meant firmness with Russia or
with US allies and Rayburn shot
back: "Firm all around.”
One of the next major steps in
the discussions of the Berlin and
Germany questions will be a
Mar. 20th meeting in Washington
between the President and British
Prime Minister Macmillan.
Macmillan will take part in a
round of conferences in Paris and
Bonn next week prior to his
Washington visit. Iri Ireland to-
day on a political tour, Macmil-
lan said he believes some small
ptragrM* was made on disarma-
ment ideas in his talks with Soviet
Premier Khrushchev. But he em-
phasized Ruasia and the West still
appear far apart on the great is-
sues of European security.
Manila, Mas'. 6 'JR — The imme-j
diatc release of five Russian!
trawlers has been ordered by the!
Philippines government. The ships
had been detained for the past'
week after putting into a small
bay off the northern tip of Luzon
for repairs. Foreign Secretary
Seirano said investigation ap-
peared to bear out this reason for
the unannounced visit.
Crowds Flock
To Open House
Activities Here
Approximately 1,500 persons at-
tended open house at Sulphur
Springs Senjor and Junior High
schools as activities observing
Public School Week came to a
close Thursday night.
This number brought the total
of persons visiting the six Sul-
phur Springs schools during open
house to an estimated 4,550.
No program was scheduled for
Thursday’s open house in order
that the visitors might have time
to visit the classrooms.
- Highlighting the open house
were displays of student work
throughout the building.
Convict Releases
Four Hostages
Sub-Contractors
Show Interest
In School Job
Ten Sulphur Springs High
School students competed in a
national mathematics contest winter
sponsored by the National Asso-I Heavy
riation of Accountants and
tuaries Friday.
Those taking the test
Blight sunshine and rapidly I Dalhart had a frigid 12 degrees
rising temperatures returned to'early this morning, but tempera-
the Sulphur Springs area Friday tures had risen to 42 early this
following yesterday’s flareback of afternoon.
Water from the mid-week rain-
frost was experienced wa- piling up in the Sabine Riv-
Ac-] here early this morning as tem- er, and the stream was expected
peratures dropped to a low of 29 i to crest about bankfull at Mine-
w ere1 degrees. Ice formed on exposed ola over the week-end.
Pioneer Missile
Moves Outward
Washington, Mar. 6 .^—Ameli-
a's record-breaking sun missHe
I’ioncer the 4th has vanished into
space aftei -ending liar k w h a t
scientists say is highly valuable
information. I'ioneer's batteries
n6w have apparently gone dead or
are -o weak the satellite is lo-t
for all practical purposes.
Pioneer is destined now to
whirl around the -un — perhaps
forever. Trackers were in contact
The latest thrust of < ool air w as dieted for Ea«t Texa-' during the with it at a distance of mor e than
advance and encourage mathema- j described as weak, however, and next five day« by the U S. Wea- 400,000 miles anil for about *0
tics in high school and to give re-|littie change in temperatures was ther Bureau. Precipitation is ex- hours — longer than any other
-xpe. t-d by weather observers. 1 pecreU to be generally moderate. ! such -pace proper.
Ronny Jones, Gary Butler, Phil, water. j The Sulphur River also is ris-** ,
Hanson, Judy Thornton, Anthony The mercury started upward ing and is expected to reach the
McKay, Louis Hurt, Earl Black,; shortly after sunrise and had bankful stage.
Merle Black, David Kuykendall reached the uppe'r 50’s this aft- Ralph Hill, local weather oh
and Ray Watkins. j ernoon. Thursday’s high reading server, reported the temperature
The three top students from , was 42 degrees. here at noon as 52 degrees, rela-
Sulphur Springs will compete for! Winds shifted baejt to the north, tive humidity as a dry 24 pei cent
statewide mathematics honors and1 in the Texas Panhandle after a and barometric pressure as 30.18
the winners of the state contest j rapid warm-up and the new front; inches and rising,
will be submitted for national | was expected to move into North- Temperatures averaging 2 to 5
honors. |east Texas by Saturday morning, degrees below normal
Objective of the contest is to
cognition to the best student-.
pre-
New York, Mar. 6 T A 24
year-old seaman testified today
that he almost jumped overboard
when the liner Constitution and
tanker Jalanta .collided out-ide
New York harbor last. Sunday.
Sigvard Stotvig df Norway, a
lookout '>n the tanker, te-tified
before a 3-man Coast Guard board
of investigation in New York.
Stotvig was s'ationcrl on fhc
j bow of the tanker, w h i <■ h was
! nearly severed in the collision,
j De-Vrihing the colli-ion, .which
oecu*/ed in dense fog, H'otvrg
|said :
j "I heUi niv-elf fa-t ami w.i pie-
pared to j urrip overboard I ran to
the port -irlo of the bow, a Die
starboard, -ide dipped. A.'i 'arm
pipe- were broken, -on'
-ee me from r he hr i
to the rna -ter -wt
jump over fioard. But ti e ina-ter
could not rear me herau e 2 *1 e
hiss of the e r aping stoan, "
Stotvig -aid he then jumped a
gap about a yard to the mam part,
of tre nip. He added:
"I went, up and had a r up of
water to r elax a Kit. I wa- ret m
jurerj except that 1 pot. U'tle
nr i Vou. . ”
Ala. Mar. 6
rr ict freed a
rnni'hiVd roup
vi< * m a r t lie
Considerable interest continues
to he maintained by builders iri
plans for construction of the first
unit of the new Sulphur Springs
High School as the time for open-
ing of bids on the project ap-
iJR They drove iri the patrol car. to proaches.
-rate the home of Smothers’ sister-, Mrs.! The bids will be opened Tues-
• and Fulton Weems, at Birmingham, I day at 2 p.m. in the High School
north where smother- got a -nit ami j cafeteria.
II of Fiat Hoik in $lll.
:: o u r- after hold big ‘'Th'Ui '. e
more 'lian 12 ho rs, while.' Dee
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it i II Ill’ll hi- de-per "j a h"U-c. II
.lark F. Gibson, superintendent
i-t drove around a] of schools, said many inquiries
aid, “until Snioth-i arc being received on sub-con-
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Rlizzard Sweeps
Midwest Section;
Death Toll Climbs
Chicdtr". Mar. ^ .4* — Several
(•()'•: a.iti heavy snow storms are
reported in rr.anv parts of the
country's’midsection. The blizzard
is moving toward the ndrtheast
aftei lashing areas in Nebraska,
Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kan-
walked’to a farm house and tele-pas. Oklahoma and Michigan.
Heavy snow warnings have been
posted for northern Michigan and
phoned state patrol headquarters.
!f)ok mv At the time of his break, .
Smother - wa- en route from Kilby, for parts of Vermont, New Hamp-
■liers or pr i-.m at Montgomery, Ala., to. shire and Maine.
■la-lev a Birmingham to face 'rial on a In the midwest storm belt, many
>r, year-, charge of po-se-ing a grin after rorfd- have been made impassable
1 i mu ui ion on a felony. 1 (Continued on Page Six)
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