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SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS, WED., JUNE 24. 1959.
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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRE88
Payroll Secrecy
Of Senate Hit
By Committee
Washington, June 24 (AP)—The Senate Rules
Committee has approved a measure to make public
the names and salaries of all Senate employes. If the
resolution is adopted by the Senate, it will strip away
the secrecy that now surrounds the office payrolls of
individual senators. Some senators in recent months
have disclosed the names and
salaries of their employes, but
there is no rule requiring them
to do so and most of them have
,not.
Chairman Thomas Hennings
—who heads the Senate Rules
Committee—said the 9-member
group unanimously approved
the resolution.
The Missouri Democrat de-
clined to predict whether the
Senate would adopt it. It would
require the secretary of the
Senate to make public four
times a year the names and sal-
aries of all Senate employes.
The American Society of
Newspaper Editors had peti-
tioned the Senate to open to
the public the record of salaries
paid by senators to their em-
ployes, the petition contending
that taxpayers are entitled to i
know how public funds are
spent.
The question of payroll sec-
recy in the Senate became a
lively issue after disclosure by
newsmen that numerous rela-
tivs of congress members are
on congressional payrolls.
Ray Hackney
Retains High
Post in Union
Ray Hackney, one-time catch-
er for the old Sulphur Springs
Ramblers, Tuesday was reelect-
ed a vice president of the Com-
munications Workers of Amer-
ica.
His unanimous election came
at the union’s 21st annual con-
vention in Cleveland, Ohio.
Hackney maintains offices in
Washington, D. C., and resides
with his family at nearby Ar-
Stales Rights
Bill Approved
By Lawmakers
Washington, June 24 IJI —
The House has passed a states
rights bill strongly opposed by
the Eisenhower administration.
The vote was 226 to 192. Re-
publicans voted heavily for the
bill. So did southern Demo-
crats.
The bill would in effect re-
verse a series of Supreme
Court decisions by providing
that federal laws do not auto-
matically take over from state
enactments in the same field.
The bill now goes to an uncer-
tain fate in the Senate, which
let a similar House-passed bill
die last year.
Goldfine Loses
Court Effort
Washington, June 24 l<P —
Industrialist Bernard Goldfine
has 1 o s t a court attempt to
avoid trial on charges of
contempt of congress. Fed-
eral Judge James Morris
in Washington refused to
dismiss the indictment, re-
turned after Goldfine refused
to answer questions about cer-
tain financial matters before a
House subcommittee. The judge
rejected Goldfine’s contention
that the questions were based
on information illegally obtain-
ed by the subcommittee's chief
investigator.
The Pickton horn and roar-
ed Hackney formerly worked
lor Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone Company in Dallas, Par-
is and Mount Pleasant.
He left the phone company
to enter full time union work,
and has been a leader since the
1940’s. Until 1949, he was Tex-
as director of the union and
located in Dallas. After a stint
as southern regional director,
Hackney won promotion to vice
president in 1956.
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LEFT STRANDED — A heavy downpour of rain that measured up to more than three inches
in parts of Lubbock, Texas left many scenes such as this. Dozens of motorists were strand-
ed by flash flooding in low sections of the city. The violent thunderstorms, accompanied
by several tornado reports, also which brought hail which severely damaged young cotton
crops in some areas of the South Plains. (NEA Telephoto)
’Hoppers
Appear
Small, green grasshoppers
are beginning to cause trouble
in several areas of Hopkins
County.
County Agent Brooks Em-
mons, for whom grasshoppers
rank as a prime aversion, nam-
ed the section immediately
northwest of the city on State
Highway 11 and the Blinker
neighborhood as two places
where the hoppers have appear-
ed in numbers.
Emmons said any concerted
anti-grasshopper campaign by
his office would depend on
whether the insects tend to
spread.
“We’re watching them," he
declared. "We have them every
year. They are bothering gar-
dens more than anything else
now."
Ammunition used against lit-
tle green grasshoppers is the
same as that prescribed for big
grasshoppers, the county agent
pointed out. He recommended
use of Malathion in gardens
and Malathion or Aldrin in
grass or crops.
Cattle should be kept off
grass sprayed with Malathion
for 72 hours and should not
be allowed on pastures spray-
ed with Aldrm for 16 days, he
added.
Mrs. Earl Long
Departs State
In New Move
Baton Rouge, La., June 21
(Jl—Lawyer Joe Arthur Sims
has reported in Baton Rouge,
that Mrs. Earl Long has left
Loifisiano.
Sims says this move by the
governor’s wife opens the way
to freedom for Long from a
Louisiana state mental hospi-
tal Friday.
Mrs. Long was to have been
a principal witness at a court
hearing Friday at which Sims
is to seek Long's freedom.
Mrs. Long had signed com-
mital papers to have Long held
in the Southeast. Louisiana
State Hospital at Mandeville.
On Monday S i m s—who is
Long’s attorney—filed an ap-
plication for a writ of habeas
corpus demanding that Long
be released from the mental
hospital.
A state court set Friday as
the day for a hearing on the
aplication.
A subpoena had been issued
for Mrs. Long’s presence in
court But Sims says now he
has learned from very reliable
sources Mrs. Long left Louisi-
ana Tuesday for an extensive
rest. Sims says he does not
know Mrs. Long’s destination.
Mrs. Long left the governor’s
mansion in Baton Rouge when
Long was arrested and taken
forcibly to Mande v i 1 1 e last.
Thursday.
She moved into a new
$60,000 home. But Sims says
Mrs. Long decided Sunday to
leave the state for the time
being. Her departure deprives
the state of one of its principal
witnesses against the governor.
UN Prisoners
Still Missing
After 9 Years
Seoul, Korea, June 24 IJi —
Nine years ago tomorrow, the
Communists crossed the 38th
parallel in Korea and started
the Korean War. As the anni-
versary approaches, it’s still not
known what happened to more
than 2,000 UN prisoners of
war-—452 of them Americans.
Chances appear slim that any
of the missing men will return
alive to freedom. There is the
possibility, however, that even-
tually the fate of some may
be known. For instance, 2
years ago, the bodies of two
American soldiers were turned
over by the Communists. And
more than 300 South Koreans
kidnaped during the war were
once discovered still alive in
North Korea by the North Ko-
rean Red Cross.
The Communists claim to
have made this denial at re-
peated meeting sof the mili-
tary armistice commission.
Workshop Concert Set
Here Early in August
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Austin, June20 (AP)—j
Hopes that the Texas'
House might get to debate
an over-all compromise
tax plan tomorrow faded
following a meeting in
Speaker Waggoner Carr’s of-
fice today.
One member of the group,
hand-picked to try to settle
House tax differences, said
after the session ended, “A
number of things are still un-
decided.”
Reports filtering out of the
super-secret sessions indicate
that at least a token severance
beneficiary taxc on natural gas
will be included in the bill—a
along with inc reases in present
cigarette and liquor taxes. One
of the undecided items is the
amount of sales taxes to be in-
cluded.
The Senate Vias recessed un-
til 10:30 a.m. tomorrow and
the House until 11 a.m.
SPECIAL MEETING TONIGHT
School Tax Raise
Due for Discussion
Plans were underway Wed-
nesday for an August 6 Sul-
phur Springs presentation of
the final concert of a Hot
Springs, Ark., summer opera
workshop conducted by former
Metropolitan Opera star, Mar-
jorie Lawrence.
The program will be spon-
sored by the Women’s Build-
ing Fund and will he free of
charge. Miss Marilyn Bagwell,
a voice student under Miss
I,awrence, will participate in
the program.
The board of directors of the
Women’s Building Fund agreed
at their meeting Wednesday to
Student Killed
In Accident
Near Commerce
Commerce, June 24 (JI — A
young college student was kill-
ed in a car accident during a
rain shower between Greenville
and Commerce Tuesday.
The victim of the one - car
accident was 22-year-old Doug-
las Maxwell, son of E. D. Max-
well of Tyler. Young Maxwell,
a student at East Texas State
College in Commerce, was driv-
ing alone.
The accident occurred on a
bridge across Highway 24 in
the Sulphur River bottom.
Ex-Greemille
Banker Convicted
Dallas, June 24 (J) — A
former bookkeeper for a
Greenville bank was sentenced
to 2 years in prison yesterday
after he entered a plea of guil-
ty to making false entries in
the bank’s records.
The former bookkeeper,
Homer Boyd Wacasey, Jr., also
admitted taking sums totaling
up to $20,000 from the bank.
Wacasey, who is 35, had been
employed by the Greenville
National Exchange Bank since
1941. He told the judge he was
paid $326 a month by the bank.
He was tried in Dallas and
was sentenced to the Federal
Correctional Institute at Tex-
arkana.
sponsor the program as an ex-
ample for the people in Sul-
phur Springs and surrounding
cities of the type of programs
which could be had in the pro-
posed Women’s Building.
Miss Lawrence offeredto
come to Sulphur Springs with
her eight workshop students
following their closing per-
formance in Hot Springs free
of charge. The group will stay
in private homes while in Sul-
phur Springs.
Mrs. B. F. Ashcroft, chair-
man of the board, announced
that Weber Fouts has accept-
ed the chairmanship of the gen-
eral fund drive for the new
building. The drive will begin
in the near future.
A special memorial fund has
been set up in which any per-
son or organization donating
$250 or over to the fund will
receive a plaque to be dedicat-
ed as a memorial to the per-
son or persons of their choice
and to be placed in the new
Women’s Building.
Mrs. Charles Ashcroft is
chairman of this fund. Other
members are Mrs. Waire Cur-
rin, Mrs. W. A. Carothers, Mrs.
R. E. Pratt, Mrs. Jack Byrd,
Mrs. Bill Tyler, and Mrs. Gray-
don Johnson.
B. F. Ashcroft and Bob Forte
will be in charge of the special
gift fund.
A sunrise h o u s e-to-house
drive is being planned for
July. Special pamphlets ex-
plaining the purpose and plans
of the Women’s Building will
be sent out to local citizens
before the drive.
Mrs. Tom Frank Worsham,
chairman of the building com-
mittee, announced that bids
have been sent out to local
contractors and are to be in
the Chamber of Commerce of-
fice at 10:00 Friday morning.
Mrs. Worsham asked that all
members of the building com-
mittee be present at this time
to pass on the bids.
WEATHER
EAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS — Partly cloudy through
Thursday with scattered thundershow-
ers. No important temperature change*.
NORTH CENTRAL. NORTHWEST
AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS Partly
cicudy through Thursday with widely
sccttend afternoon and night time
thunderstorms. No important tempera-
ture changes.
FRENCH SOLDIERS RESIST
Strong Rebel Unit
Hits Algerian City
Algiers, June 24 (P — A
strong rebel unit smashed in-
to the outskirts of the east
Algerian port city of Bone to-
day in a pitched battle with
thousands of French soldiers.
It was the first rebel military
assault on a major Algerian
city.
The rebel attack began be-
fore dawn. The rebels took
position in orchards and homes
between the Bone airport and
the Mediterranean. Shortly af-
ter the blast of grenades and
machine gun fire wakened the
city of 80,000.
French headquarters in Al-
giers said the battle Was con-
The French deployed thous-
ands of steel-helmeted troops
and hundreds of armored cars
to cordon off the city.
Planes from a nearby air
Force base strafed rebel posi-
tions.
Army authorities said they
were unable to determine the
size of the rebel group. But
they said the area is occupied
and the resistance it put Up
indicated a large band armed
with modern automatic wea-
pons.
It could not be immediately
determined whether the rebels
had crossed the electrified
tinuing. All communicationsj barrier separating Algeria
with Bone were under tight) ftom Tunisia. The barrier ends
military control. near Bone.
Thunderstorms
Continue Over
Eastern Areas
Showers and thunderstorms
were popping in large numbers
ovef the eatern two-thirds of
Texas this atfernoon and were
expected to continue into the
night.
Despite the new eruptions,
meteorologists expressed belief
the wild weather that has
struck ao many sections of the
st&te this week is tapering off.
A cool front which had in-
vaded the Panhandle yesterday
has retreated back north, leav-
ing Texas without any pro-
nounced a i r pressure varia-
tions.
Streams were flooding in
portions of North, Central and
East Texas, but overflows were
expected to be confined to
rural lowlands.
Sulphur River Up
The Sulphur River reached
the overflow stage above
Naples, but the Weather Bur-
eau said any flooding will be
small.
Rains up to 5 inches at Hub-
bard and Eureka in the Corsi-
cana area sent creeks out of
their banks, flooding several
hundred acres of cotton and
maize.
More rain was falling this
afternoon in the Colorado
River watershed, where down-
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Underground
Defense Center
Set for Denton
Washington, June 24 (JI —
President Eisenhower has ask-
ed congress for $2,700,000 for
construction n«ar Denton, in
North Texas, of the first un-
derground Civil Defense Re-
gional center.
The Texas center would be
teh first of eigrht proposed by
the Office of Civil Defense.
A spokesman said the Na-
tional Responsibility for Civil
Defense operations would shift
to Denton if the national ope-
rational headquarters in Battle
Creek, Mich., could not func-
tion in an emergency. Head-
quarters of Ci-vil Defense, Re-
gion 5, are at Denton.
The center would take care
of 400 persons, including emer-
g e n c y sleeping accommoda-
tions. It would be a structure
about 140 feet wide and 160
feet long, and would have two
underground levels. No decis-
ion has been made as to the
location of the other seven pro-
posed underground Civil De-
fense centers.
Youth Slabbed
In Argument
Over Cigarette
Schoolman's Son
Shot to Death
Near Houston
Houston, June
Houston, shortly
night, two cars,
with teen-agers,
24 Ul—Near
before mid-
each loaded
passed each
• a
other in the San Jacinto Battle
ground.
There was some shouting
back and forth between them.
Then some shots were fired
—and a 17-year-o)d La Porte
boy was shot.
He was Chadwick Allen
Burch, whose father, Marvin
C. Burch, is principal of La
Porte High School. He died at
12:59 this morning in the San
Jacinto Memorial Hospital in
baytown. He had been shot in
the head.
A 15-year-old Pasadena
youth, John Richard Mc^insh,
told officers he had fired twice,
once up in the air. He added
—“The other time I thought 1
fired over the car ... I didn’t
know anyone had been hit.”
Both cars were moving, and
apparently both continued ’ on.
One of “6 or 7” companions
of Burch, 17-year-o!d Allen
Cartnell of La Porte, is quoted
as saying a pink and white
Pontiac had stopped in front
of them, blocking their pas-
sage; they had pulled up be-
side the other car and there
was an argument; then one of
those in the Pontiac had level-
led a pistol and started shoot-
ing.
McAinsh and two compan-
ions, both 16 and of Pasadena,
have been arrested.
J.....
Houston, June 24 Ul — A
13-year-old boy was stabbed
to death last nis’ht in an argu-
ment over a cigarette.
The lad, Louis Lujon, died
from a stab wound in the neck.
Another 13-year-old boy is be-
ing held for probation authori-
ties.
Witnesses say a fight be-
tween the two boys developed
after Lujon asked for a cigar-
ette during un intermission at
a neighborhood movie in the
rear of a grocery store. The
boys moved outside the build-
ing for the fight—
After being stabbed, the
Houston teen-ager said “tell
my mother ... ”
He died before
the sentence.
Masked Men
Severely Beal
Dallas Worker
Denton, June 24 (JI — Four
masked men inflicted a severe
beating today on a Denton
county man en route to his job
at a strike - bound engineering
firm in Dallas.
Victim of the beating was
Manuel Arnold, who was hos-
pitalized at Denton with a head
injury and bruises.
Arnold lives between Lewis-
ville and Bartonville. He said
he had just left his home to go
to work at the Security En-
gineering Division of Dresser
Industries, where a strike is
in progress. He said the four
men attacked him around 7
a.m., about one mile from his
home.
Related Arnold, “Their ear
was parked across the road
so I couldn't get by. I stopped.
Then two masked men got out
of the car. Two more came out
of the weeds behind my car.
They pulled me out of the ear
and started hitting me with
their fists and blackjacks."
Arnold said he Had returned
to work at the plant.
He added, “I just went back
to work the other day. The rest
of the machinists went out on
strike but I couldn’t stay away
any longer. I have a wife and
two children to feed.”
The question of a 1959 tax
rate for the Sulphur Springs
Independent School District
will be discussed by district
trustees Wednesday night at
a special meeting beginning at
7:30.
Board members have dis-
cussed the possibility of in-
creasing the school tax rate if
no other way can be found to
complete financing of the new
high school classroom building
now under construction.
The original financing pro-
gram for the school has been
stalled by a legal action which
has tied up $400,000 in bonds
authorized in May, 1968.
T. B. Blackburne, board
president, said the trustees
also will consider bids for new
equipment for the high school
science department and will
discuss vacancies existing in
the teaching staff.
Johnson Says
Housing Bill
Best Available
Washington, June 24 (Ul —
Senate Democratic Leader Lyn-
don Johnson of Texas says the
compromise bill congress has
sent to the President is “a bill
everybody can live with.” There
is no word yet on whether the
President intends to veto it
Johnson said today: “We
have performed our responsi-
bility by passing the best bill
we thought we could.” He add-
ed ; “Let the President reform
his responsibility.”
Johnson — in talking with
newsmen — dismissed as to
iffy a question as to whether
he would ask the Senate to
override a veto if one mater-
ializes.
The President has 10 days
to decide what to do about the
one and three -quarter billion
dollar catch - all housing bill.
Budget Director Maurice Stans
and Housing administrator
Norman Mason both have in-
completing dicate<j they'll recommend that
the President veto it
NEW ACTION PLANNED
ConstructionWork
On Airport Resumed
Construction -work on the
expansion of the Sulphur
Springs municipal airport was
resumed Wednesday after a
delay of a week due to a land
acquisition problem.
The action wans taken on
recommendation of Robert
Hayter of Paris, new consult-
ing engineer for the project
City Manager Jack Hender-
son explained the shutdown
was necessary because of the
possibility of a chmngt in con-
struction plans for the new
3,7Q0-foot runway if »n alter-
nate location propowl had
proved more desirable to the
landowners concerned than the
original "acreage now under
controversy.
City Attorney J- R. Ramey
was instructed W ednesday to
prepare condemnation proceed-
ings on property owned by
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rhodes.
The action will cover 3.84 acres
for one end of the runway and
an aerial easement on addition-
al land naeded for an approach
clear tone.
Henderson said no definite
reply had been received from
Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes in re-
sponse to a written offer for
purchase of the land and dam-
ages mailad last week. The
letter set last Monday as the
deadline for a reply.
Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes have
contended that the loss of the
land will be a handicap to their
dairy farming operation.
Work now in progress st the
airport is confined to installa-
tion of drainage structures.
City to Start
Tax Reviews
Here Next Week
A five - member board of
equalization will law*" I next
week the annual revi^Af the
city tax rolla in pJhpYation
for the customary sanrrner ad-
justment of valuations.
Members of the board are
Dermont Morgan, Bill Taylor,
John Payne, Carl Brice and
Ford Massey.
They will be assisted in the
review by City Manager Jack
Henderson, Mrs. R E. James,
city secretary, and T. C. Bra-
shear.
The group is expected to
check the assessed valuation of
every piece of property on the
tax rolls.
Property owners whose ren-
ditions are changed will be in-
vited to appear before the
board to discuss the revisions
if they desire to do so. The
hearings probably will be held
in July.
July Fourth
Holiday Set
For Observance
The majority of Sulphur
Springs business establishments
will observe Saturday, July 4,
as one of the five official hol-
days of the year.
County, city, state and gov-
ernment offices will also be
closed on July 4. The police
station and sheriff’s office will
remain open, however.
There will be no mail deliv-
ery, but the post office lobby
will remain open so that citi-
zens can continue to mail let-
ters and pick up mail from
boxes.
The Daily News-Telegram of-
fice will be open Saturday, July
4, for the publication of Sun-
day's paper, but will not pub-
lish a paper on Monday, July
6.
Rickenbacker
Asks Revision
Of Air TOlls' j
Washington, June 24 OP —
The top American flying ace
of the first World War, Eddie
Rickenbacker, wants some rec-
ords changed. He claims he shot
down 27 German planes in-
stead of the 26 racked up to
his credit in World War I.
The 68-year-old Rickenback-
er now heads Eastern Air
Lines. He was a leader of the
famous Hat-in-the- Ring Fight-
er Squadron which scored
heavily against the Germans.
The Air Force gave no de-
tails of Rickenbacker’s request
that his aerial kills be upped
from 26 to 27. But a reliable
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