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VOL. 59.—NO. 19.
SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY. JAN. 23. 1987.
« PAGES — 6 CENTS. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Predicts Record Prosperity
To Continue; Warns Against Inflation
TO FURNISH PAVEMENT
UP IN SMOKE—Walls of a 10-rtory grain elevator crumble as spectacular blaze destroys the
structure on the Calumet River in Chicago. Half the city’s fire department fought blaze, which
for time threatened other nearby elevators and a grain boat. The multi-mililon dollar fire de-
stroyed 6 1-2 million bushels of grain. (NEA Telephoto).
Water Rolls Over Spillway
At Century Lake Wednesday
Water was rolling over the downstream and boosted into
spillway of Century Lake Wed
nesday as the 666-acre city reser-
voir overflowed for the first
time since last May.
Runoff into the lake appeared
to have ended, but a two-inch
curtatrrof ~water was still boiling
over the spillway Wednesday
noon.
White Oak Creek was well with
in its banks again at the High-
way 11 crossing above the lake
and the stream's flow appeared to
have halted.
•• Overflow from the lake is being
caught at the pumping station
Monaco Celebrates
Birth of Child
To Royal Fair
Monte Carlo, Monaco, Jan. 23
(A—Monaco is celebrating the
birth of the royal baby:—a girl
born today to Prince Rainier and
his Princess, the former Grace
Kelly. The infant weighed 8
pounds 2 ounces and has been de-
scribed by the p r o u d father as
“very beautiful, just lovely." The
palace' says everything went just
fine and that mother and child
are doing very well.
The baby will be christened
Caroline Louise Marguerite. She
will succeed Rainier to the throne
of the tiny principality unless the
Prince and his former actress wife
should have a son. She will be en-
titled to U.S. citizenship if she
wants it when she becomes of age.
MOD Fund
Hits $1386
Hopkins County's March of
Dimes fund grew to $1,386 Wed-
nesday with the receipt of
$141.90 from the Mothers Cul-
ture Club as the proceeds of a
series of benefit coffees.
Ar similar project is being car-
ried out by Kiwanis Club mem-
bers, but no returns have yet
been received. ’ —-
March of Dimes contribution
envelopes have been distributed
to Sulphur Springs schools and
are being passed out among stu-
dens in other parts of the county.
Returns also are being received
from the general distribution of
contribution envelopes to all fam-
iliesHn the county earlier this
month.
The March of Dimes campaign
raised approximately $3,300 in
the county last year, and the chap-
ter wound up the year more than
$900 in debt for treatment given
local polio victims.
WEATHER
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS — Montly
cloudy through Thur»d«y. occasional rain
and a little.warmer tonight and Thursday.
Lowest tonight 28*36.
WE8T TKX AS Considerable cloudiness,
some light rtiin Thursday and in Did Rio.
- Jia*l*.J*a»s areas sod 'east of Peccia Val-
ley this afternoon and tonight. A litUe
warmer Thuraday and, in Panhandle,
South Plains ami from upper Pecos Val-
ley eastward tonight.
EA8T TEXAS- Mostly cloudy and cool
ihls afternoon and. tonight With loweat
28-SA Interior tonight., occasional rate and
—a little warmer Ttmrgdfcy. I *" '
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAB.- Cloudy,
occasional rain imiuht. and Thursday.
Lowest 86-46 north portion tonight. A
little waftuor Thursday.
nearby White Oak storage reser-
voir, which was in the process of
being refilled when Monday
night’s rain hit. Water from the
reservoir is being moved on into
Lake Coleman in the city.
Little Lose Seen
City Manager Jack Henderson
said the conduit under the Cen-
tury Lake dam would be reopened
to provide water for completing
the refilling of White Oak reser-
voir after the natural overflow
supply ended.
He said the additional with-
drawal of water from Century
will not be enough to cause any
appreciable drop in the level of
the lake. v
“We won’t notice the loss,” he
declared. “Everything in in
mighty good shape on the water
system.”
-The city manager said at least
three more, feet of water will be
pumped into Lake Coleman to as-
sure a capacity supply at the
point of use when the heavy con-
sumption season begins this year.
Valuable Anet
Henderson expressed belief
that Century Lake is providing
Sulphur Springs with the best
“catch basin” it possibly ccKild
have for the money spent on the
project.
The particular value of the
lake lies in the large drainage
area tapped on White Oak Greek
and the consequent bountiful sup-
ply of water available when heavy
rains fall.
City Manager
Favors Return
Of Gasoline Tax
City Manager Jack Henderson
today give his strong endorse-
ment to a bill newly introduced in
the state legislature which would
exempt city-owned vehicles from
state gasoline tax payments.
“We’re strictly for it,” Hender-
son said.
He estimated the City of Sul-
phur Springs would save at least
$200 a year on the proposed re-
fund of gasoline tax payments.
The state gasoline tax amounts
to 6 cents a gallon.
Mrs. S. H. Harris
Of Nelta Passes;
Rites Thursday
Mrs. S. H. Harris, 67, of the
Nelta community died at 11:45
p.m. following a short illness at
Memorial Hospital in Sulphur
Springs.
She was born. Carrie ElmirA
Stubblefield in Hopkins Count?
on July 28, 1889. She was mar-
ried to Sam H. Harris in Septem-
ber 1907.
Immediate survivors include
her husband, a son, Clyde Harris,
two daughters, Mrs. R. D. Beard-
en and Mrs. Bert Bartlett; five
grandchildren, two brothers,
Monroe and Bill . Stubblefield,
both of Cooper, and a sister, Mrs.
Myrtle Schultz of Dallas.
ducted at the Nelta Church of
Christ, where she had been a
member for many years, at 2:30
Thursday afternoon. A. W.
Adams will officiate at the rites.
Pall-bearers Will be nephews.
Slate Approves
404 Miles New
Federal Roads
Austin, Jan. 23 (A—The State
Highway Commission gave ap-
proval this morning to the third
phase of the interstate highway
system in Texas, 404 miles of new
roads expected to cost 181 mil-
lion. dollars.
Today’s approval covers the
advance planning on the projects
and* clears the way toward ob-
taining right of way valued at 37
million dollars.
The three programs approved
by Texas since the interstate
highway system law was sighed
by President Eisenhower last July
cover about 1,513 miles. They
involve construction totaling 674
million dollars.
Texas Senate
Levels Blast
At Uncle Sam
—Austin, Jan. 23 (At — The Tex-
as Senate adopted a resolution
today accusing the U. S. Depart-
ment of Labor with what it call-
ed “dictatorial exercise of bu-
reaucratic authority.”
The resolution said that “ar-
bitrarily, abruptly and without
any prior warning,” the U. S.
Labor Department had imposed
new and harsh minimum accept-
able standards for housing of
Mexican alien workers last Jan-
uary 7 th.
The Resolution. said the Labor
Department did not confer "with
the Farm Labor Advisory Com-
mittee' and did not advise it of
such plans. It added that bracero
Employes are now faced with ex-
tra expenses or loss of such lab-
orers, and the added cost may
mean . the difference between a
“reasonable profit or a disas*
troiis loss.” ,
State Senator Frank Owen of
El Paso is author .of the resolu-
tion, which was sent to the Texas
House with copies to President
Eisenhower and the U. ,S. Labor
Department.
Two Local Projects
Approved by State
For Important
Tax Payments
Two important tax deadline;),
loom next f week for Ho aJtJLju s
County residents.
One concerns payment of 1956
ad valorum property taxes and
the other payment of 1966 poll
taxes.
A penalty of 1 % per cent .goes
into effect on property taxes on
Feb. 1. Failure to pay poll taxes
results in ineligibility to vote or
serve on a grand jury.
Steady progress* in the collec-
tion of property taxes js reported
by local governmental agencies as
the deadline approaches.
O C. Sewell, Jr., county asses-
sor-collector, said poll tax pay-
ments had picked up during the
last week or so. He attributes the
increased interest to the schedul-
ing of the special election for U.
S. senator on April 2.
British Accused
Of Majking False
Attack Reports
London, Jan. 23 (A—A British
parliament member Just back
from a trip to Egypt has accus-
ed the Conservative government
of making deceptive reports on
the Anglo-French attack on Port
Said last November. Labor Par-
ty member Edith Summerskill—
a physician by training—visited
hospitals in Pert Said. She says
the House of Commons was giv-
en to believe only military tar-
gets were attacked._But she says:
“I know there was a direct
hit on an operating theater of
one hospital, on two other hospi-
tals and a large number of
schools and a Moslem cemetery.”
Dr. Summerskill estimates near-
ly 3,000 civilians in Port Said
were killed or wounded.
Patman Heads
Economic Probers
WasTMngton^ Jan. 23 (A£=» The
Senate-House Economic Commit-
tee has named Representative
Wright Patman of Texas as its
chairman.
Patman announced that the
group would begin public hear-
ings next Monday on President
Eisenhower’s economic report.
The Texas congressman has
been pushing for an investigation
of the administration’s tight
money policies. He said that this
probably would not be handled by
the economic committee.
BOOSTER STICKERS BOUGHT
Membership Campaign
Planned by Chamber
A campaign to enlist (new mem-
bers in the Chamber of Commerce
will be launched about Feb. 1, it
was decided Tuesday by the or-
ganization's membership and fin-
ance committee.
The group also voted to buy
300 automobile bumper stickers
advertising Sulphur Springs and
to arrange for some organization
fo distribute them- They will be
yrue K»u.« « priced at cents ^
Funeral services wftLim eon- - Window or door decals will be
provided for chamber members
this year, it was tfecided,.
Attending the meeting were
Cecil D. Ward, chairman, Jack
Gibson, Ben Dickerson, Milburn
Fuller and Jim Anderson.
Mrs. Sam Adair
Dies in Dallas;
Rites at Yaniis
Mrs. Sam Adair, 70,. 1906
Morrell, Dallas, died at I 8:30
Tuesday night at St. Paul’s Hos-
pital, Dallas. She had lived . in
Dallas for the last 12 years.
She was a member of the Bap-
tist Church.
Funeral services, under the
(Continued on Page Six)
Completion of two i^wjrrT street
widening projects, in Sulphur
Springs was assured today with
the approval "by the state "trigt
way commission of paving for the
areas. , . 7
Streets included are Gilmer,
from the Whitworth intersection
to Radio Road, and Church, from
Pipeline Road south,
j- Botfi streets carry State High-
way 154 through the city, and
Gilmer Street plan is the route of
State Highway 11.
The city has acquired and
cleared an eight-foot strip on the
east side of Gilmer Street, and
has started work on a similar strip
on the west side.
New Curbing on Church
The Church Street improve-
ment will be confined to the north
end of the street, which already is
of adequate. width. The city is
completing curb and guter install-
ations in this area. . .
New paving will be installed by
the highway department, probably
this spring.
Bids are to be received by the
highway department this week on
the widening and improvement of
11.6 miles of State Highway 11
from Como to Winnsboro.
Completion of right-of-way,
buying for the Highway 11 im-
provement was announced Wed-
nesday by County Judge Newt
Owens. The last of the 26 deeds to
property neded for widening the
highway and improving road in-
tersections was received Wednes-
day morning from a Mt., Vernon
man.
President Denies
'Inspired Leak'
Of Policy Plans
Washington, Jan. 23 (A—Pres-
ident Eisenhower was reminded
at his news conference today that
he gave what a reporter called
‘the dickens” to Secretary of
Defense Wilson regarding leak-
age of Defense Department
spending plans. That happened
when Wilson visited Eisenhower
at the President’s vacation head-
quarters in Augusta, Ga., in De-
cember. ,
The newsman contended that
the administration nevertheless
deliberately leaked advance in-
formation regarding its ant i-
Communi^t Middle East program
to some newsmen. He wanted to
know whether that episode meant
the Eisenhower administration
plans to have less formal con-
tacts with reporters.
Eisenhower replied that he had
never heard of what he called an
inspired leak, regarding the Mid-
dle East program. He added he
does not believe in such leaks
and he does not put any trust
in such a practice. The President
also said he believes all report-
ers should get information at the
(Continued on f*age Six)
Winter Weather Ahead
HOPKINS COUNTY may expect below normal temperatures and
moderate precipitation from now until mid-February, according to
the U. S. Weather Bureau’s long-range outlook -It is not a spe-
cific foreoast in the meteorological sense, but an estimate of aver-
age temperatures und precipitation for the period.
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B-r-r-r! The below-normal temperatures which plagued most
of the nation during early January will continue with the North-
est taking the worst beating. Only ureas where it may get warm-
er than normal are in the far Southwest.
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All the way along the Gulf and East coasts/from the Rio Grande
to Boston, precipitation will be above normal. Frequent snows
can be expected from the Carolina* northward. Heavy precipita-
tion is also expected in the Rock Mountain states, with only the
Midwest dryer than normal.
Washington, Jan. 23 (AP)
—President Eisenhower re-
ported to congress today
dhat a record 195(5 prosperi-
ty should continue into this
year. Hut he cautioned that
more inflation may ride along
with it.
hi the last of his three major
annual messages — the economic
report—Eisenhower stressed for
the third lime in as many Weeks
his strong opposition to tax cuts
and a sober appeal for restraint
in \yatre boosts. ...... - - 7 .
WINTER CONTINUES
Freezing Rain Looms
As Threat to Texas
Texan Aboard
Missing Plane
Rome, N. Y., Jan. 23 IA — The
Air Force has released the names
of the seven men aboard a re-
fueling tanker plane missing on
a flight from Westover Air Force
Base in Massachusetts to Griffiss
Air Force Base near Rome, York.
The pames are:
Aircraft Commander Major
Charles Mellinger, of the 4050th
Air Refueling Wing, Tacoma,
Wash.; co-pilot First Lieutenant
Fred De French of the 384th. Air
Refueling Squadron, Bedford,
Ohio; 3rd1 pilot Major Roland
Wrqwhart, Jr., Headqua rtdra
99th Bomb Wing, West Warwick,
R. I.; Aircraft observer, First
Lieutenant Alsia Stewart, Pales-
tine, Texas; flight engineer Mas-
ter Sergeant L, Bergstrom, West
Caldwell, N. J.; boom operator
Staff - Sergeant Raymond Noah,
384th, Paducha, Ky.; boom op-
erator Staff Sergeant Joel
Blackwell, Clairton, Pa.
Sleet and ice conditions^may
deVelop over -NWih-TvxrmThurs-
day as the second installmPITCmf
winter’s latest onslaught into this
area.
Occasional sleet and rain and
possibly freezing rain were pre-
dicted for the upper half of the
state tonight Motorists were Warn-
er! to watch highway and street
conditions carefully.
Sleet, snow and freezing rain
dotted sections of W e s t Texas
Wednesday. Light sleet und snow
fell in the El Paso and San An-
tonio areas. Light rain fell at San
Angelo, J unction and in the
Odessa-Midland region.
New Front Seen
Chilly weather is expected to
remain in the. state, with a new
cold front arriving about Friday.
The U.S. Weather Bureau’s five I
day forecast issued Wednesday
calls for temperatures averaging
3 to 6 degrees below normal in
Northeast Texas, with slowly ris-
ing temperatures through Friday
and colder weather Saturday und
Sunday.
Moderate precipitation is indi-
cated for the eastern half of the
area and little or none elsewhere.
Down to 25 Here
The mercury dropped to 26.de-
grees in Sulphur Springs Wivlnes-
day morning-—a plunge of 45 de-
grees in approximately 24 hours.
Tuesday’s high temperature was
70 degrees.
Ralph Hill, .local weather ob-
server, reported the temperature
here Wednesday noon as 30 de-
grees, relative humidity as 70 per
cent and barometric pressure as
30.47 inches and falling.
IF POSSIBLE
Ike Says Congress
Should Cut Spending
Washington, Jan. 23 (A—Presi-
dent Eisenhower told his news
conference todgy that he agrees
with Treasury Secretary Humph-
rey that federal spending should
be cut if possible. And Eisenhow-
er said it's the duty of congress
to cut his budget if it can.
Humphrey has expressed hope
that congresswill be able to do so.
Elsenhower was reminded that
Humphrey has said the: govern-
ment must cut its spending, and
take less: put of thle nation's econ-
omy, or face the danger Of a se-
vere depression. Eisenhower re-
marked, however, that Humphrey
w»s talking from a long-term,
and not an immediate, point/ of
view. Eisenhower said he did not
feel that Humphrey’s statement
.had any application to the im-
mediate situation-.
On another subject, the Presi-
dent came* out against any separa-
tion of hi.- Middle East program
into two separate HMelUtlWi*, one
on economic aid and the other)
on military assistance.
He said this, would defeat the
program's purpose of preventing
Communist aggression in the Mid-
dle East. Eisenhower wants,
among other things, standby au-
thority to use American troops in
the Middle.....Ea-st, under certain
circumstances.
Eisenhower . refused to com-
ment on the/ matter of whether
the' National Security Council
once voted unanimously to halt
hydrogen bomb tests, and then
reversed itself during the political
campaign. Newsmen told Eisen-
hower that Adtai Stevenso n
brakes such a remark in a maga-
zine article. Stevenson advocated
a halt in H-bomb tests when he
was:, campaigning - for president
lasf year. Eisenhower said he,
makes it a point never to discuss
actions of the National .Security
Council in public. •
Eisenhower also:
WwiNJ not ,j ray - specifically,
w-hctfierTSlri'tish Prime Minister
Macmillan «md Yugoslav Presi-
(('untinued from Pago Six).
’ He listed 38 luws he wants
from the 85t.h congress. They in-
cluded prompt federal aid for
school construction, more teeth
m the antimonppoly and anti-
merger laws and more help for
•mull firms caught in the credit
squeeze.
The nation’s total output of
goods and services reached a rec-
ord 412 billion dollars last year,
and for the final quarter hit a
peak annual rate of 424 billions.
Eisenhower’s basic theme was
an appeal to industry and labor
unions to Join the government in
blocking the leapfrog advance of
business costs arid consumer pric-
es.
The figures Eisenhower cited
showed that the, country achieved
a spectacular 21 1-2 billion dollar
advance last year in the annual
rate of production. But he said
that half the gain merely reflect-
ed price increases.
The climb in prices, the Presi-
dent said, “may not have run its
course.” He said it represents one
of the ’’uncertainties and prob-
lems” which cloud the .economic
future. ?
Eisenhower suggested strongly
that he thinks the government is
doing all it can do to curb price
pressures, short of heavy-handed
restraints that would regiment
the economy arid invite a reces-
sion. Therefore, he said:
“Business and labor leadership
have the responsibility to reach
agreemerits on wages and other
labor benefits that are fair to the
rest of the community as well as
to-those persons immediately in-
volved.”
Eisenhower did not renew his
direct request of n year ago that
congress consider restoring stand-
by authority to regulate down
payments and repayment terms
on consumer installment credit.
Administration advisers are. split
On the issue.
In a brief reference, Eisenhow-
er said the federal reserve board
shortly will complete a study that
will serve as a useful guide in de-
termining whether legislature ac-
tion is desirable. A", ■
The report showed that Amer-
icans entered 1957 carrying a
record installment debt of 31, 6(H)
million dollars. Bqt_.the rate of
business was only about it third
as rapid as’that which auto and
appliance miles brought on in
1955.
The President took note of
complaints in congress and else-
where about the government’s
“tight money” policy. He renewed
his proposal—firs) made in the
State of the Union message—that
congress set up a commission of
“distinguished citizens” to study
the nation's money and credit sys-
tem. ' j'
The credit shortage has had
“especially severe effects” On
homebuilding, Eisenhower report-
ed, hnd has caused a “distinct in-
crease” in the number of small
businesses coming to, the govern-
ment for loans because they could
not get them elsewere.
Various measures to protect
the competitive position of small
companies and to stimulate hous-
ing were included in the message;
all had been proposed before. In
total, the 38 recommendations to
congress boiled down to a request
for action on the unfinished por-
tions of Eisenhower’s 1956 legis-
lative program.
(Continued on Page Six)'
I
French Patrol
Fires on Casbah
Algiers, Jan. 23 (A—A French
patrol opened fire in the Casbah
of Algiers today $n three sus-
pected Arab nationalists. The
giinfti e whuiideJ the ' three sus-
pects and two pastsersby and kill-
ed a child.
Rebel activity included the toss-
ing of a grenade at a company of
Flench Legionnuirfes near a head-,
qmuters it Sidi Bel Abbes in
northwestern Algeria. Seven
Legion trades were wounded.
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