The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 284, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1956 Page: 1 of 10
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UNITED FUND
Goal ....... $27,300
To Date___$23,725
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To Go_____$ 3,575
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Weather Forecast
Fair and Wanner
THE EVENING NEWS AND THE MORNING TELEGRAM CONSOLIDATED IN 1915. ABSORBED THE DAILY GAZETTE IN 1924.
VOL. 58.—NO. 284.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1956.
10 PAGES — 2 SECTIONS — 6 CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Warmer
Weather
Returns
Warmer weather return
ed to the Sulphur Springs
area Friday following: the
coldest temperatures of the
season for Thanksgiving
Day.
The mercury dropped to 22 de-
crees Thursday morning and fail-
ed to get above 43 during the day
as a chilly north wind prevailed.
Temperatures climbed into the
middle 50's Friday afternoon aftJ
er an eariy morning minimum of
25 degrees.
Ralph . Hill, local weather ob-
server, reported the temperature
at noon as 54 degrees, the rela-
tive humidity as 20 per cent and
baroijietric pressure as .,30.08
inches and rising slowly.
Clear and warming weather
prevailed over Texas. Frost hit
the lower Rio Grande valley this
morning and is believed to have
caused considerable damage to
tender vegetables. Lowest over-
night minimum reported wa$ 23
degrees at Salt Flat*. ,
The long-range weather fore-
cast issued Friday calls for temp-
eratures near normul in East Tex-
as during the next five daj^i,
with a slighjjy colder trend in
the northern >pdge of the district.
Little or no precipitation is ex-
pected.
Discount to Drop
On Tax Payments
After Friday
Hopkins County taxpayers will
lose a small discount on their
state and county ad valorem tax
bills beginning Saturday.
Discount offered for early pay-
ment of taxes drops to 1 per cent
beginning Dec. 1, after being 3
per cent in October and 2 per
cent in November.
The tax bills arc payable on an
even basis during the month of
January and become delinquent
after Jan. 31. A penalty of 1 1-2
per cent per month is assessed for
late payments beginning Feb. 1.
No discount is offered for early
payment of city or school taxes.
O. C. Sewell, Jr., county asses-
sor-collector, said tax payments
to his office during November are
running about even with those of
last year. Collections during Oc-
tober showed a gnin in compari-
son with 1955 payments.
WHHOP IT UP—Members of B.itain's First Royal West Kent Regiment whoop it up as they pre-
pare to board troopship in Port Caid, Egypt, for Cyprus after elements of the United Nations
Emergency Force arrived in Egypt. On Nov. 28, 207 Danes moved from UN headquarters in Cairo
to Port Said to reinforce Norwegian soldiers already thee. (NEA Telephoto).
BACKSLIDING TREND REVERSED
Nameless Goat Inspires
Men to Practice Singing
Training School
For Firemen
Reaches Climax
A five weeks’ training School
for members of the Sulphur
Springs fire department was con-
cluded Wednesday night, with
more than 20 firemen receiving
cbrtificates for completing the
work.
The course was conducted by
College- It consisted of 15 hours
of instruction in five weekly ses-
sions. ,
The final class included a re-
view of material presented in
previous meetings and also a dis- I J 'VY”"", ' '7 " u u ‘,7 7',lur.l,‘ *
cussion of the investigation of ar- 4°rin ® Monday night
If the Men’s Brotherhood Choir
of the First Baptist Church gives
a bang-up performance in Fort
Worth Jan. 14, a plain, old, name-
less goat can claim credit for a
potent role in - the accomplish-
ment.
This unusual possibility stands
to be qualified on one point. The
distinction also swings on the
goat’s not being converte^into a
barbecue before the performance.
What happens to the animal
after Jan. 14 is another matter.
The gbat was brought into the
church by Music Director J. T.
Adams as a Y>ersl,ading lever in
helping the Brotherhood Choir
live up to its reputation.
Practice Needed
The choir’s motto is “God’s
Praise in 'Song, 100 Strong.”
Among a gobd many other things,
Adams i.. concerned with the
group’s backsliding on its adver-
tised numerical strength. He also
wants his singers to be familiar
with the numbers they will pre-
sent at the Texas Baptist Evan-
gelistic Conference in Fort
Worth.
As a means ,of achieving these
ends, he acquired the goat to
fortify attendance at the weekly
Monday night choir rehearsals.
For organizational purposes,
the choir is divided into 11 teams,
each with a captain who is re-
sponsible for getting his members
out to rehearsal.
The captain with the poorest
attendance record each Monday
night gets custody of the goat for
the next week.
Two Victims So Far
Jack Brock, general enlistment
chairman for the choir, was the
first fall guy on general princi-
ples when the contest was started.
Last Monday night the goat
was presented to Roger Beckham,
whose team had seven memhers
absent from rehearsal, including
the captain. S-
Beckham has been confiding to
his friends that he still isn’t sure
that the fact that he passed up the
rehearsal himself to attend the
Pickton Methodist Church’s
joining the church entourage and
was recaptured by Brock and
Adams alter a chase on College
Street.
Improvement Noted
Church loyalty and other influ-
ences may be involved, of course,
but attendance at the rehearsals
has jumped from 45 to 72 in the
two weeks the goat has been on
duty. 4 , .
Some talk has been heard in
Baptist circles to the effect that
the team that has the smallest
turnout for the Fort Worth con-
vention will be charged with re-
sponsibility for barbecuing the
goat and giving a full-blown din-
ner for the entire choir.
Other team captains who arc in
jeopardy in the program are Les-
ter Murdock, Brooks Emmons,
Willie Owens, Warren Brewer,
Don Deaton,1 Peanut Moore, Daw-
son Fuller, Maurice Kelty, Wen-
dell Sapaugh and Homer Hennen.
< Only subversive note sounded
in the program to date has come
from County Agent Emmons. He
is broadcasting warnings that if
the goat ever lands in his hands
the barbecue will be held immed-
iately and there will be no incen-
tive for the Fort Worth perform-
ance. - \ .■ 1
What the goat might tljink
about its new. role is still a well-
kept secret.
Tax Clinic Set
Next Friday For
For Farm Groups
The income tax clinic planned
next month for Hopkins County
farmers haS been postponed one
day to Dec. 14, County Agent
Brooks Emmons said Friday.
The change was made to ac-
commodate the schedule of A .A.
Alexander, Internal Revenue
.Service representative, who will
be one of the principal speakers.
A program for the clinic will he
announced next week.'
Emmons emphasized that wom-
en, who do much of the farm
bookkeeping, are invited to attend
the clinic as well as men.
Safely Workers
Set Campaign
To Reduce Deaths
United States Orders Oil
Shipped to Western Europe
$3,575 SHORT OF GOAL
United Fund Total
Climbs to $23,725
Collections accumulating over
the Thanksgiving holiday gave
the Hopkins County United Fund
a welcome boost Friday.
New contributions and pledges
reported since Wednesday noon
totaled $1,250 to advance the
United Fund’s running total to
*23,725. '
This leaves the campaign
575 short of its goal of $27,300.
County zone and rural com-
munity subscriptions contributed
substantially to the new reports.
The Curnby zone turned in
$327 and the Miller Grove zone
$139.50. The Sulphur Bluff zone
reported an additional *102.75 to
bring its total to *398.75- The
Como zone tfurned in an addition-
al $62.50 to increase Its total to
$192.34. .The Pickton zone added
$156.67 fo bring Its total to
$222.69. -x.
Rural communities reporting
included ^hirtin Springs $20.50
Reilly Springs $50, Shady Grove
$6 and Ridgeway an additional
$5.
Contributions by Negro grbups
included St. Marks' community
$6, North Caney $20, Evening
Chapel Methodist Church $8.71,
Church of God in Christ $10.25,
Church of Christ $5.
Charles Carothers turned in
$301.12 collected by his general
gifts division workers and one ad-
ditional $50 contribution was re-
ceived-fw>m the big gifts division.
Churchill Quietly
Celebrates 82nd
Birthday Event
Two Men Receive
Slight Injuries,
As Truck Flips
Young Hunters
Find Whiskey 1
Two Sulphur Springs teen-
ager!, who do not want their
namet revealed for obvious rea-
sons, were hunting near Sul-
Springs Friday morning when
they found a small illicit whis-
key still and several jugs of
moonshine.
They decided to destroy the
moonshine and fired with their
guns. y-------
Their blasts were answered
from a short distance away
with the reports from other
guns. The two hoys
Chicago, Nov. 30 (<P)
workers across the
start a year-long campaign to-
morrow to -reduce automobile ac-
cidents and deaths? 4
Two men, Lavoy Dunnavant
and James Edward Dunnavant,
Route 2, Gladewater, received fa-
cial cuts and abrasions when the'
van-type truck they were in over-
turned to avoid a head-on colli*
sidn seven miles south of Sulphur
_ Sa'fety Springs on Highway 154 at 11:55
nation will a; m. Fridriy.
State Highway Patrolmaui Ben
Thomas, who was on a routine
patrol, was almost the Victim of
The campaign directed by the the heai)'on crast; as LavoyJ’11?:
National Safety. Council and co- ?avant at,‘TP,*ed to pttss W;
operating organizations seeks to ,n£lam of 1)allas at thp crest~of
enlist the aid of the men in the a d* - ,,
street and behind the wheel to Dul'n^a,\t Pllllcd <)<ff “* *»c
cut injury and death tolls. lef» of thc I'Whway toavo.d the
In 1955 there were 38,426 traf- coll,s'0n !h<\ V’”6 .,'5tor”“’
fir deaths. The council in Chi-jtlonal truck loaded with milk
cago climates thc 1956 total mav overturned. All of the milk which
go as high as 41,000 which would [ *as. bo,n»r brpJu/ht t0 Sul,,hul
be a new high. The record total ; 8P,lle*' , . ,.
l liomas said damage to the
cussion
Fogaley complimented the local I pl ^,cnt
department on its radio communi-
cations set-up, describing it as
one of the most efficient he had
seen. Volunteer firemen have
short-wave radios in their home
to permit an Immediate response
to alarms called into the station.
hurriedly to their car and rac-
ed to obtain assistance from po-
wasn’t a-determining factor in his j lice officers.
British Troops
To Leave Egypt
By Christmas
London, Nov. 30 l*—Diplomat-
ic officials said today in London
that Britain has informed the US
that most British troops will be
withdrawn from Egypt by Christ-
mas. "
France was understood to be
planning a similar statement.
The goat itself boasts a good
pair of horns hut is described (by
Adams) as having a fine disposi-j
tion. It has escaped once since1
When the officers returned
to the scene, they found the re-
mains of the destroyed jugs of
whiskey, but the still and at
least one other container were
missing.
qf 39,969 was set in 1941.
Thc campaign has been en-
dorsed by President Eisenhower.
Cooperating- organizations are
departed the Automotive Safety Founda-
tion, the American Automobile
Association, thc Association of
Casualty and Surety Company,
t h e Northwestern University
Traffic Institute, the Interna-
tional Association of Chiefs of
truck,was extensive.
London, Nov. 30 IB—Sir Win-
ston Churchill celebrated his 82nd
birthday today, more feeble phy-
sically than: 12 months ago but
still possessed of a bright and
magnificent mind.
The wartime prime minister
spent his birthday as any other
man of his years and health.
He stayed late in bed*" leading
telegrams and letters of greetings
from all over the world. He
thumbed through his newspapers,
had a light breakfast and got up
shortly before noon.
A friend emphasized that Sir
Winston was physical 1 y very
feeble and that he.walked slowly
and only with ^difficulty.
“He hates to talk about his
health, or his advancing years,’’
said the friend, “and when he pos-
ed with Lady Churchill for jiis of-
ficial birthday photograph yester-
day he was n e r v oils, and
jumpy.” n
“Sir Winston,” called out a
photographer as he clicked his
shutter, “I hope to take your pic-
ture on your 100th birthday"*
Turning ^slcrwly, Churchill star-
ed at the photographer fflr fully
30.seconds and then replied in thc
tone that has withered many an
adversary:
“1 see no reason why you
shouldn’t "young man — you look
hale and hearty enough."
A friend close to Sir Winston
(Continued from Page One)
US 6th Fleet
To Beef Strength
In Mediterranean
IpMI
..jw’i..’ skua
CASHING IN — This bride in.-
Messina, Sicily, gets a quick
ncstegg through'the custom of
pinning money out her bridal m ‘K’V|1
grown as a “fee” for .dancing
with her. Chap in photo gave
the most, so he got first dance.
(NEA).
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 30
(AP)-—President Eisenhow-
er took action today design-
ed to ease the oil shortage in
Western Europe resulting
from closing of the Suez
Canal.
From his vacation headquarters
,at Augusta, Eisenhower called
for establishment of machinery
which .n effect would pool re-
sources of the U. Si oil industry
to deal with the situation. The
move td supply oil to such nations
as Britain and France will include
production as well as tanker fa-
cilities.
It was not learned, at once,
how the Western European na-
tions would finance the oil from
-he Western hemisphere. Most
European nations have limited
dollar reserves; * /
, Under direction of the Presi-
dent, Mobilization Director Ar-
thur Flemming ordered into ef-
fect the government’s emergency
program to supply Western Eu-
rope with up to 1,100,000 barrels
of oil daily. Most European na-
tions already have gone on vol-
untary or compulsory gasoline ra-
tioning vvhile this country with-
held action — thereby bringing
pressure to bear on Britain and
France to remove their troops.
Senator Daniel
Hopes to Gain
Full Confidence
Houston, Nov. 30 )B— Govern-
or-elect Price Daniel says he will
not have what he calls “complete
public confidence” when he takes
takes office in January, but he
says he hopes to capture that fcon-
fidcnce in office.
In a broadcast interview with a
Houston radio station Daniel said
Midland Woman
Slightly Injured
As Cars Collide
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar H. Green-
weed of Midland suffered minor
injuries ..Wednesday night when
their car collided with another ve-
hicle at the intersection of U. S.
67 qnd State Highway 19 south-'
west of. the city. '*
State Highway Patrolman Jesse
Reed, who investigated the acci-
dent, said the Greenwood car, a
1956 Chevrolet, collided with the
the rear of a 1956 Ford driven by
Billy T. Clark of Dallas.
Clark said he had slowed down
Naples, Italy, Nov. 30 (J*
Plan* for beefing up the power-
ful 6th Fleet in the Mediterran-
his controversy with Governor j at the intersection to observe the
Shivers over hia resignation from : highway markers. Greenwood said
has p,e didn’t see the other car in
the United States Senate
probably cost him some support
ers.
Both cars were . traveling
time.
, east-
But he adds': ‘1 probably gained | Mrs. Greenwood suffered cuts
just as many. - j about the face when her head
Said Daniel: “No one has the j 8trUck the windshield. Mr. Green-
complete confidence of the public | wood had a cut lip and an injur-
when he takes office. The import- j ed arm. Both were treated at Me-
ant thing is t° earn it, I hope to
do"just that." >
Daniel again said, if -Jioone is
can have been disclosed bv the j appointed senatorbefore he\akes
Vice' Admiral [ office January 15th, he,_,will ’
elp
morial hospital.
fleet......cszuunander, .............— ,
Charles Brown [organize the senate when it eon
He told a news conference | venes. -January 3rd. Shivers has j
aboard His flagship that these! hcld that no sP<*<’,al election can
plans include the addition of the ^ calIpti until afte'' Da'-',eI takt';'j
missile cruiser, Boston, and: «fj*ve ianuarj 15th.
America’s most modern aircraft • . fta1
carriers, tlie Korrcstal and the THAF1f*f)Tl II] I
Solon Suggests
Johnson Resign
Moves to Europe
r.
Son' Medley,
Former Citizen,
Claimed by Death
Police, thc Council of State Gov- j former Isulphur Springs citizen,
Medley. 60,
ernnients and others.
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Uprising in Cuba Quickly
Put Down by Loyal Police
Santiago, Cuba, Nov. 30 tB—! continued in various parts of the I-tr—----—-
Several hundred rebels revolted j city. j—. • ___ .
against the Cuban government of; The rebels Wore armbands with IjQrlF WnriFprC
President Batista today • in San- the insigna “ July 26,” which
tiago and attacked the police sta- corresponds to the date in 1953
Costly T-Bones
tion. Police said the attack was
repulsed and three of the rebels
Were killed.
A number of the rebels were
then said to have occupied an
empty building next to
when rebels made an unsuccessful
assault on thc army barracks in I
Santiago in which many were kill- j
ed.
Stage Slowdown
died at Albuquerque, New Mexico
I on Wednesday and/was/buried in
the National Cemetery at Santa
j Fe on Thursday. /
I Mr. Medley, a Veteran of nvili-
I tary service in World War I, liv-
jed in Sulphur Springs for many
years, leaving here about a dec-
lade ago to reside in New Mexico
He was born Nov. 12, 1896 in
[Sulphur Springs, thc son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Medley.
Sudvivors include his step-
! mother, Mrs. R. E. Medley and a
half-sister. Mrs. R. G. Wilkie,
both of Sulphur Springs, a broth-'
] cr, Roy „ Medley, a sister, Mrs.
John, G. Flowers, and a half
Washington, Nov, 30 IB—Rep-
j resentative Chari e.s Diggs of
! Michigan has suggested that, Sen-
| itor Lyndon Johnson of Texas re-
ign as Democratic leader, if he
■ cannot support a rules change to
j prevent filibusters. '
Diggs, a . Democrat, is one • of,
the three Negro members t>f the
Franklin D. Roosevelt. They arc
to join tire fleet in January.
There are plans to equip the
reinforced Marine battalion with
the fleet with “Honest John"; Paris, Nov. 30 B—The Aineri-
rockets which can carry' an atomic-jean Embassy in Paris has issued a; house.
warhead. The flet^kcady has [ statement saying that, contrarfto, , thp Domocratic canK
Regains guided misstles winch can popular hehef. M-ester'H hem.- , „aj)fn ,atform promis*d rPpeal of
■an y an atomic warhead The phe.e oil shipments through com-, ,hv presont SCBate rules of nnljm:
Boston-will he armed with Terner mer. K, channels r.r'c proceeding . ite(j tjLej).ite_wilich make filibust-
nu.--.silM which can give atomic; normally to Europe. . ers possible J
aircraft protection against enemy IrsabDeh-ven tankers carrying | ’ _'
planes as far distant as 30 iuiles. 165,000 tons are diie in French j ,
Admiral Brqxyn. told the hews- ports from thc Cavtilx-an between
Uic-n: “I am sitting on top of a November 28th and December
volcano • Tomorrow could be 28th while 33 ship- witly 495,000
my Pearl Harbor . . 1/have to tons are scheduled' to ai-j ivt- from
watch it ail the time.'' / U. P. Gulf ports. jj
Trouble Makers
New York, Nov. 30 oB — The ’ L (i' al1
Chicago. Nov. 30 (Bt — The
champion steer at the 1956 in-
ternational livestock exposition
in Chicago went for' a record
prieg of $20,397. If yon like
that figure broken down, it
wssld range from $8Q a pound
for T-bone steak to a more $2$
for m ponnd of hamburger.
WEATHER
T ' • I waterfront slowdown in New, c«r,8bad- New Mexico,
e July 2fith movement has - York has begun again. Dock
, , pol've been directed since 1,9,53 by Fidel .vorkp, „ showej .... .... thn „.v
headquarters. Other withdrew to Castro, an enemy of the^Batista .t showed up on the pit is
various parts ?f the city. regime who now U Uving in exile " thc a * T'
Police and army units were re- >h Mexico. Castro earlier this >ut ,hfc>- we do*n»f thl" north ckntkai. TEXAS r»ir.
ported besieging the building week issued a statement warning Job* in slow motion—a. they
next to police headquarters. It Batista to cet out of the presi-, d*d.yesterday. J WKSt TRXAs FVir. warmer Mcwt
formerly was a high school and dency by the end of this month or Those who' will content
city hall. ! ■ [face a, revolution. S , .
^Government forces were re- Batista seized power'in 1952 in U '° ")<f
ported to have t!ie situation in a bloodless military, coup. His po- contract. I hey arc on thc job
hand less than 3 hours after the litical opponents have been try- because of a Taft-Hai they injunc-,
rebpilion started. But shooting ing-to dislodge him ever since. ! tion. ' .
f, ■ -4'f- J ,
4 - 4 ' t ■
Sulphur Springs
Enjoys Quiet Day
Quiet was the.\ord-for Thanks-day night at the intersection of
New Delhi. India, Nov. 30 (F
—Chinese Communist Premier
Choi* En-Lai. who is eisiting In
dia. got a frank introduction to
a couple of Communist mem-
ber* of the Indian parliament.
A government official intro-
duced them as “2 parliament
members who ar« always giv-
ing us so much trouble."
Chou laughed and shook
hands.
giving* In Sulphur-Springs- as lt>«, j U. S. 6/ and Stsiti* Highway 10. •
ctjl T-esi(leirt«,J-:etUetL dtuvrr- to the Postoffice employes, who qb-
seiious busift-sts of a peaceful ■ served their / Thanksgiving last j
day at home and festive family ; week, reported one of the lowest j
dinners. « »
SMITH'S HELPERS SRV:
i tins
of business ever experienced j
the windows, althotigh a nor-
The comparatively few who had at , , „ . ., ,
to work during the holiday found J"/*1 volume of incoming mail was,
little to do. Police and sheriff’s Itkpdied. ,
officers agreed that activity, was A • «y>aVity eongrcgat.on attem^
at an extremeiv low ebb. Traf- <’,i lhb annual f°™!",un't>' Thanks-!
fic was repo.ted unusually light.S!.™
both in the city ami on ,tbe by
say
without a
nimI SrN>t,h PUiiw th»j» Hftrr-
norm ami fonlvht, MtM Saturdsy.
pass highway aftei
tcniifhi j
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 284, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1956, newspaper, November 30, 1956; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth828037/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.