The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 128, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 30, 1962 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 84.—NO. 128.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1962
8 PAGES—5 CENTS
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Frtjtnklin, May 30 (AP)
—A Houston pathologist
today repeated FTis earlier
o pinion that Henry H.
Marshall, who investigat-
ed Billie Sol Estes’ cotton ,
allotments, was murdered.
But Dr. J. A. Jaehimczyk i
said he could not rule out sui-I
cidd.
The Houston medical exam-
iner arrived in Franklin to tes-
tify before a state grand jury
investigating the year-old slay-
ing of Marshall, an Argicul-
ture Department investigator.
The pathologist, who per-
formed an autopsy last week
on Marshall’s body, conferred1
with the state district prosecu-
tor and judge before talking
to the grand jury.
He brought with him a 12-
page, single-spaced autopsy re-
port which was not made im-
mediately available to news-
men.
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Husband Jailed
After Wife
Claims Beating
A Putman Street resident
was jailed for being drunk and
causing a disturbance Tuesday
night after his wife claimed
to police that he had hit her
in the face.
He was still in custody
Wednesday morning.
Otherwise, there was little
activity by officers Tuesday
and Wednesday morning. City
police issued a ticket for speed-
ing on Gilmer Street, two local
men were brought to the coun-
ty jail by the Cumby constable
for drunkenness and another
man was arrested by the sher-
iff’s department for passing a
worthless check.
Three Hopkins County youths
with arrest records were ob-
served lounging at a South
Broadway service station until
6 o’clock this morning.
BACK IN COLORADO — Astronaut Scott Carpenter, center, receives welcome from a
crowd assembled at the airport in Denver, Colorado, to greet him on his arrival from Cape
Canaveral. With Carpenter are his mother, Mrs. Florence Carpenter, left, and his wife,
Rene, right. (NEA Telephoto).
Roger Ward Captures
500-Mile Speed Race
Voting Boxes Consolidated
For Saturday’s Run-Off
Grand Saline
Girl Selected
As Duchess
Freda Jane Thompson of
Grand Saline was announced
Wednesday as the seventh vis-
iting duchess for the North-
east Texas Dairy Festival June
5-6.
At a meeting of festival di-
rectors Tuesday night. City
Manager Carl Riehn agreed to
reserve half of one section of
the downtown square June 7
to load visitors for a tour of
Auto Sinks Boat
Detroit, May 30 PP)—A col-
lison between an auto and a
boat tank them both last
night on the Detroit River.
Mr. and Mr*. W e t 1 e y
Kramer parked their auto
and vitited aboard a friend't
boat at a marina.
The auto rolled down a
tlope and crathed into a 22-
foot tea tkiff belonging to
Anthony Carnack. Both the
boat and the auto tank in
six feet of water.
87 to Receive
Diplomas Here
Commencement e x e r c i ses Fails, Larry D. Fite, Modena
for 87 Sulphur Springs High j Ruth Flippin, Fred William
School seniors are scheduled Frailey, Kathy Jones France,
Thursday night in the high'James P. Gibson, Jill Gibson,
school gymnasium at 8:15. | Robert S. Gilbert, Larry Gil-
The address will be given by 1 litem, Suzanne Gray, Gloria
the head of the department of j Ann Griffin, Jimmy E. Haney,
secondary education at East;and Marsha G. Hendrix.
Soviet Envoy
And Sec. Rusk
Hold Meeting
Washington, May 30 (J’l—So-
viet Ambassador Dobrynin con-
ferred with Secretary of State
Rusk today in Washington on
German and Berlin issues. Aft-
er the one hour and 50 minute
talk, the Soviet envoy said he
expected they would hold an-
other meeting in the near fu-li
ture. | \-
Asked how today’s talk went,
Dobrynin replied with a smile
and said: “As usual.”
Past discussions between \
Rusk and Dobrynin on the Ber-
lin issue have failed to offer
anx real hope of breaking the
East-West deadlock.
Texas State College, Dr. J. E.
Franklin.
He will be introduced by
Superintendent of schools
Jack F. Gibson.
Jeston Williams, president
of the school board, will pre-
sent diplomas and Principal
Truman E. Drake will read the
roster of candidates.
Larry W. Hicks, Buford Ray
Hinton, Joe Martin, Hollings-
worth, Gwynnieth L. Hollis,
Tommy R. Hurley, Gayle lsh-
mael, Bill Allen Jackson, Freda
lllene King, Patti Sue King,
Seba W. Kirkpatrick, II, Sarah
Lee Lilly, Billy Dan Lindley,
William Phillip Marts, Edwin
Earl Martin, Elizabeth Ann
The high school band will Martin, Roy G. McCasland,
play the processional, “Pomp! Joseph H. McCorkle, Mary Kay
and Circumstance” by
US Advisers
In Laos Found
Elgar,
m
J. E. FRANKLIN
and the recessional, “Ceremon-
ial March” by Morrissey.
The Rev. Richard Alderson,
minister of music and educa-
tion at the First Methodist
Havana Radio
Charges US
Violates Space
Key West, Fla., May 30
—Havana radio asserted today
that Cuban newspapers'' have
published pictures of a U. S.
military plane allegedly flying
over a Soviet ship and violat-
ing Cuban airspace in the pro-
cess.
The radio said the two pic-
tures were taken May 17th off
the* coast of Cuba’s Matanzas
province. The claim echoed a
charge last Sunday by the Mos-
cow newspaper Pravda which
said a Soviet shij> had been
stopped by a TJ. S. destroyer
on the same date and buzzed
by a U. S. plane.
The Havana broadcast was
monitored in Key West.
day.
A U. S. military spokesman
said the two men -— Sergeant
L. C. Virgil Murphy of Van
Buren, Ind., and Sergeant
Merle Loobey, whose home
town could not be learned im-
mediately—were in goed con-
dition.
The two sergeants were at-
tached to the royal Laotian
Vientiane, Laos, May 30 W
—Searching helicopters today
the HaskeH Spencer dafr^farm SmmiSng^n tee^Euri: .Church’ *iv° i"'™-
Sai area of Laos since Sun- tion ®nd Harvey F ads the bene-
diction. Senior class president
Mary Lou Owens is to deliver
the welcome.
Randol Wilkie, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. G. Wilkie, is the
valedictorian and Barbara
Beeson, daughter of Mi's. Inez
Beeson, is salutatorian.
The senior class roll is Wil-
liam Allen Alford, Mary Eliz-
abeth Ames, Nolan Cohen At-
taway, William Roland Bailey.
and the Carnation Company
and Northeast Texas Producers
Association milk plants. The
tour, an added attraction for
this year’s festival, will be
started at 9, 10 and 11 o’clock
on June 7 and will continue the
next day if sufficient interest is
shown.
., Directors also heard plans to
have about 40 girls that will
be here that week for a twirl-
ing school march in the parade
along with the high school
band.
The possibility of placing a
streamer across a corner of the
square advertising the festival
was discussed.
army at Houei Sai, 220 miles | Barbara Ann Beeson, Donaid
northwest of Vientiane on the R. Boozer, Joe Bob Burgin,
MeKong River border between
Thailand and Laos.
They disappeared when
Barry Lee Camp, John Chris
Carothers, Lou Katherine
Carpenter, Nancy Sue Carpen-
McKinney, Rosa Lee Meadows
and Gerod Melton.
Claude L. Milligan, II, Rob-
ert Don Mercer, Joe Dan Moss,
Michael Nabors, Thomas Ray
Nichols, Judy Orr, Mary Lou
Owens, Karen Peters, Betty
Gail Quary, Thomas C. Ran-
som, Stephen R. Rash, Floyd
Truitt Regan, Patricia Ann
Reece, W’anda Lee Ritchie,
Jackie Sue Richey, Wilma Sue
Roberts, Joe David Rorie,
Dorothy Swindle Sewell,
George Lynn Shelton and
Jackie Sue Sickles.
Henry George Smith, Jr.,
Peggy Lee Smith, Marvin W.
Starr, Miller Stinsiek, Mich-
ael Tatom, Carolyn R. Thomp-
son, Gariy B. Thompson, Judy
Consolidation of six Hopkins
County voting boxes and a lo-
cation change for a downtown
polling place were announced
Wednesday by J. R. Ramey,
Eichmann Asks
For Clemency
In New Appeal
Jerusalem, May 30 HP —
Adolf Eichmann appealed to
Israeli President lzhak Ben-
Zvi today to spare him from
the gallows.
Eichmann’s Wr c s t German
defense counsel, Dr. Robert
Servatius, submitted the con-
demned man’s appeal and one
of his own to Ben-Zvi. The at-
torney asked
chairman of the county Demo-
cratic Executive Committee.
The moves were made in pre-
paration for Saturday’s Demo-
cratic runoff primary.
Voting boxes at North Hop-
kins, Tira, Emblem, Nelta and
Greenview will be temporarily
eliminated for the runoff. The
two Cumby boxes will be con-
solidated into a single voting
place.
To Ground Floor
In downtown Sulphur
Springs, the location of the
Precinct 3 voting box was
changed from its traditional
place in the district courtroom
to the office of the Lone Star
Gas Company a short distance
north on Church Street.
The change has been widely
advocated recently to eliminate
the necessity for voters to
climb the courthouse stairs.
Thundershowers
Moving Over
East Texas
Thundershowers were mov-
ing over parts of East Texas
this afternoon, raising renewed
hopes for additional drouth-
easing rain.
Houston and Longview both
reported early afternoon pre-
cipitation.
Forecasts called for contin-
uing thundershower activity in
both Northeast and Southeast
Texas during the afternoon
and evening.
Hot weather was gradually
making itself felt over the
Voting places were left in-1 state. Laredo reported 98 de-
that the death j tact in Commissioner Precinct grees early this afteinoon
sentence not be carried out on | n0 •>, where Paul Martin and! RaIPh Hill, local weather ob-
the Ges-tapo officer convicted | m. W. Morgan are contesting; server, listed the mid-day tern
of being a major accomplice | for
in the Nazi massacre of the
Jews.
Executive clemency is the
only escape avenue open to
Eichmann after the Israeli su-
preme court yesterday reject-
ed his appeal against his con-
viction by a special three-
judge tribunal. Israel’s justice
minister now has three days
to submit his recommendations
to the president concerning ac-
tion on the clemency request
An authoritative source said
Ben-Zvi is expected to reach a
decision within two or three
days after receiving the jus-
tice minister’s recommenda-
tions.
Ben-Zvi Ijas received a num-
ber of appeals from abroad
that Eichmann be spared.
If he rejects the clemency
plea, it is expected that Eich-
mann will be executed soon
after in Ramleh Prison, near
Tel Aviv, where he has been
held in solitary confinement
since his trial. His stay in
prison was broken by his ap-
thc county commissioner
Sharon Tipping, Julia Ann I j^i hearing before'the su-
ur ey, Sherry Ann Vititow, | preme court and the reading
Rand°! Wayne 0f the court s judgment yes-
Wilkie and Earnest W. Young.
troops of the pro-Communist ^ell^Vhapman Fu^en
Clark, Harold Alonoz Craig,
Jimmy Earl Davis, Caroline
Elizabeth Dildy, Delola Beth
Dowdy and Johnny D. Duck-
worth.
Barbara Ann Edgette, Linda
Rae Edwards, Harvey Ray
Pathet Lao renewed their at-
tack on government forces in
the area.
Government defenses only
two miles outside ’Houei Sai
were reported cracking under
Pathet Lao probing attacks.
Rescue Workers
Probe for Child
Ghost Pine Creek, Alberta,
May 30 (J)—Rescue workers are
trying to reach a four-year-
old farm boy who fell down
the deep shaft of an abandon-
ed Canadian coal mine near
Ghost Pine Creek, Alberta yes-
terday. At last report he was
known to be alive. Little Kenny
Kowalachuk was heard crying
‘‘Daddy, Daddy” in a we a k
voice And late? a police offi-
cer lowered into the 85 foot
hole said he got answers from
Kenny but could not see him.
Air is being pumped into the
shaft and no gas was reported.
A rescue worker was lowered
30 feet into the shaft but could
not probe deeper becaues of
the crumbling of rotted timber.
Rescue workers were boarding
up the sides to prevent a cave-
in. *
Kenny, one of 12 children,
plunged down the shaft ap-
parently while playing with a
younger brother. The mine is
about 50 milea northeast of
Calgary.
Four Accused
In Fraudulent
Housing Deals
Fraudulent dealings in pre-
fabricated houses in the alleg-
ed style of Billie Sol Estes have
resulted in indictments against
four men by the Dallas County
grand jury.
One of the houses involved
is in Sulphur Springs.
The men — Bob Johnson,
Robert Russell, Robert Lewel-
lyn and Merle Furtick Lewellyn
—are listed as agents, officials
or owners of Johnson-Under*
wood Co., Inc.
They are accused of theft
by false pretext in alleged
fraudulent taking of $60,000
from the Pioneer Finance Co.
of Detroit, Mich.
The quartet allegedly sold
first-lien notes between Janu-
ary and August, 1961, on pre-
fab houses that did not exist
or were not completed. ~
The grand jury report re-
vealed that each of the houses
allegedly would be registered
in a person’s name so as to es-
tablish title. Then an affidavit
would he signed stating that
the house was completed and
the finance company would buy
the note.
This happened 14 times. In
at least one instance, the house
was to be built in Sulphur
Springs. Also listed was a house
in Pickton. Most of the houses
were in Dallas.
The grand jury charged that
there were no houses on prop-
erty in nine transactions and
uncompleted houses in the re-
maining instances.
Building Inspector Bob
terday. He was brought to
Jerusalem for both those stag-
es of his case.
WEATHER
NORTHEAST TEXAS — Partly
cliudy ind little change in temperature
through Thursday. A few thundershow-
er* Thursday afU moon, l-uw tonight
66-72. High Thursday 88.95.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS - Clear
to partly cloudy and no important tem-
perature changes through Thursday.
Chance of thundershowers east Thurs-
day afternoon.
NORTHWEST TEXAS Clear to
portly cloudy end no important tem-
perature rhangis though Thursday.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS Partly
cloudy and warm tonight snd Thurs-
day.
SOUTHEAST TEXAS Partly
position in the only local run-
off on the ticket.
Voters in other parts of the
county will cast ballots only on
four state races, governor, lieu-
tenant governor, congressman-
at-large and attorney general.
Ramey predicted a compara-
tively light vote Saturday. He
placed his traditional estimate
on the turnout at 3,000, with
two-thirds of the total coming
from Commissioner Precinct
No. 2.
4,581 Total May 5
The county cast 4,581 votes
for governor in the May 5
primary.
Voting hours will be from
8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Fred Moseley and Mrs. Ruth
Cross, .chairmen of the two
Cumby precincts, will arrange
for a consolidated voting box
and for election workers.
North Hopkins and Tira res-
idents will vote at the Episco-
pal Parish Hall, on Houston
Street in Sulphur Springs.
Emblem residents may vote
either at the parish hall or at
Ridgeway.
Nelta residents will vote at
the Precinct No. 3 box in the
Lone Star Gas Company office.
Greenview residents will vote
either at Travis or Austin
school.
Boundary Change?
perature in Sulphur Springs as
84 degrees, relative humidity
as 64 per cent and barometric
pressure as 30.04 inches.
Tuesday’s high reading here
was 83 degrees and the over-
night low 6fi.
The U. S. Weather Bureau
iorecast prospects for rain as
favorable over Northeast Texas
during the next five days. Pre-
cipitation for the period is ex-
pected to average from .50 to
1.50,
Temperatures averaging near
normal are predicted with only
minor day to day changes.
Jail Escapees
Believed Seen
In Oklahoma
Oklahoma officers joined in
the search for three Hunt
County jail escapees Wednes-
day after receiving a report
that three men of their de-
scription had been seen in a
boat drifting down Red River.
Earlier, officers found a
1953 Chevrolet pickup which
had been stolen in Commerce
Monday morning submerged jn
Red River.
Indianapolis, May 30
(AP) — An old pro skin-
ned the “young hot dogs”
today as steady Rodger
Ward won his second
500-mile motor derby.
Starting from the second
post position in the first row,
the 41-year-old veteran track-
ed the flying early leaders,
Parnelli Jones and A. J. Foyt.
He snarled past the front-run-
ners shortly after the 300-mile
marker and drove home in rec-
ord time. Unofficially, Ward
was clocked at an average
speed of 140.292 miles per
hour.
Ward, who also won the
race in 1959, was followed to
the finish by his teammate,
Len Sutton. Both men drove
Leader Card 500 Roadster Spe-
cials. Eddie Sachs was third,
Don Davis was fourth and
Bobby Marshman was fifth.
Jones, the record - breaker
of the qualifying runs, rushed
to the front at the start for
the first 300 miles of the race.
However, brake trouble slowed
him after that and he fell back
steadily.
There were few crackups,
although a number of drivers
— including Foyt — had to
leave the race because of
motor trouble. Foyt, in fact,
ost a wheel on the backstretch,
walked away from that one,
took over for another driver
and again was forced to the
sidelines by engine difficul-
ties.
Driver Injured
A four-car p i 1 e u p on the
northwest turn early in the race
sent four drivers to the side-
lines and one of them, Jack
Turner, to the track hospital.
He suffered multiple injuries,
including pelvis and big toe
fractures and a facial burn but
his condition was listed as
good.
There was one fatality at the
track. A spectator died of a
heart attack.
The or.e-two finish by the
Ward-Sutton team was reminis-
cent of the domination of the
race by Mauri Rose and Bill
Holland who drove Blue Crown
cars in the 1940’s and won sev-
eral times.
The race began under low
ind threatening skies but des-
pite high humidity the rain
tayed away, and the sun man-
aged to break through often.
All the finishes were listed
is unofficial, pending a review
of the official tape. Rookie Jim
McElreath was tabbed as sixth,
hen came Jones in seventh
lace, Lloyd Ruby in eighth,
Jim Rathmann in ninth, John-
Ramey said he will carry to,. . . , ..
the county commissioners court tno sto*e pickup and drove
Officers surmised that the "^ac^oT Em' it was Jim
in August a proposal by J. J.
Spencer, veteran chairman of
voting Precinct No. 3, that the
precinct’s south boundary be
extended from Jefferson Street
to College Street inside the
city limits.
This would eliminate some
of the crowding in the Precinct
2 box at the library by equaliz-
ing the load with Precinct 3,
ri«.iidy snd wirm tonight snd Thors- which has been showing a de-
it into Red River,
The river search centered
near the Woodstown, Okla.,
community.
The Greenville jail escapees
are identified as Jerry Leon
Patterson, 23, James- Ray
Both well, 28, and Joe Ed-
wards, 23.
Patterson is charged with
cattle theft, and Bothwell and
m «sth * frw l,cU,u''1 thundoreh,w>-! dining trend, Ramey explained. Edwards with burglary.
Murder Charges Filed
In Mineral Wells Death
Hurtubise, Edd Rose, Don Bran-
son, Shorty Templeman and
Bud Tinglestad. Templeman
spun into the wall early in the
race, got out of the car, walk-
ed around a bit, got back into
the car and continued in the
race.
Others involved in the four-
car-c r a c k u p, in addition to
Turner, were Chuck Rodee,
Allen Crowe and Bob Christie.
All escaped injury.
The veteran Troy Ruttman,
starting from far back in 30th
place, weaved his way through
the pack with a daring run to
reach second place after the
midway point. But motor trou-
ble forced him out at that
point.
Mineral Wells, May 30
Murder charges have been filed
against W. A. Ross, husband of
a 58-year-old woman found
shot to death in her home
Monday, police said here today.
Mrs. Ross was a sister of
Than Doss Seaman of Sulphur
Springs.
Police,, who said no murder
weapon was found, quoted Ross
as saying in a statement given
to authorities that the shooting
followed a family argument.
The murdered woman was
found shot to death on a bed
jn her house at 1:15 p.m. Mon-
day. A bullet from a .22 caliber
gun had passed through her
head and lodged in her hair.
Ross, who first told police
he found her after returning
from downtown Mineral Wells
to take her far an appointment
with her doctor, was sent to a
Vaughn, who did not hold this j hospital suffering from shock.
(Continued on Page Eight) He is a heart patient and was
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in fair condition Tuesday after-
noon.
The arrest of Ross followed
a day of busy investigation by
city police, sheriff’s officers,
District Attorney Sam Cleve-
land and Texas Ranger J. P.
Lynch. These were some of the
mystifying facets of the case
officers pondered:
1. There was apparently no
forced entry into the Ross
home.
2. Mrs. Ross was shot at
close range two times.
3. Neither household furnish-
ings nor the dead woman’s
clothing, a nightgown, was in
disarray.
4. There was no evidence of
robbery. Although her purse
was discovered on the floor as
if it had been knocked from
a nearby chair, coins still re-
mained inside the purse.
5. Neighbors reported hear-
ing prowlers in that vicinity
Sunday night.
Ross is a reired school prin-
cipal and superintendent in
Mineral Wells who now man-
ages the estate of the late L
E. Seaman, his father-in-law.
Mr. Seaman owned the SET
Ranch and was once president
of the City National Bank
here.
Funeral services were sched-
uled at the Buzbee Funeral
Home Wednesday afternoon.
Surviving Mrs. Ro^s, the
former Betty Lou Seamon, are
her husband; a son, William A.
Ross, Jr., of Mineral Wells,
who was in Fort Worth at the
time his mother's body was
found; three brothers, Henry
Seaman of Buena Vista, Cal.,
L. E. Seaman of Pheonix, Ariz.,
and Than Seaman of Sulphur
Springs; and four sisiters, Mrs.
J. Alton Murphy of Mineral
Wells, Mrs.«Ralph Wofford of
Dallas and Mrs. Arthur Herr-
ing and Mrs. Lanette L. Hiii
of Houston. •
Child Plunges
To Death Down
Mine Shall
Shamokin, Pa., May 30 OP —
Rescuers today found the body
of a 12-year-old boy who
plunged down a 525-foot shaft
while exploring an abandoned
coal mine with a friend last
night in Shamokin.
Shamokin police said the
body of Kenneth Shicklcy, Jr.,
was found 400 to 500 feet
down the shaft, wedged be-
tween two coal cars on an off-
set of the shaft.
Police said a coroner lower-
ed into the shaft pronounced
the boy dead.
Kenneth fell down the
when a step on a la
The other boy
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 128, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 30, 1962, newspaper, May 30, 1962; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth827815/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.