The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 247, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 16, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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j Minneapolis, Oct. 16 IP—Presi-1 night renewing his demand for an
dent Eisenhower has started his j end to H-bomb testing. But Eiscn-
most ambitious campaign swing hower said his administration is
dedicated to the use oif the atom
for constructive service, not de-
struction. ' .
Eisenhower also discussed- farm,
problems — saying the future of
agriculture looks more promising
than at any time in this gener-
ation.
From Minneapolis, the Pmi-
dent and his party will fly to the
Pacific Northwest, then down to
Caiffomia. There will be a ma-
jor speech in Los Angeles — a
new item on the schedule. The
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said about the first order of busl-'”^, « nneapolw —where the
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SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 16, 1956.
8 PAGES — 6 CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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_ Dallas, Oct. 16 IAP) —
Rams up to almost 5 1-2
inches have fallen on thou-
sands of square miles of
Texas drouth-land the past!
24 hours, and the end isn’t1
in sight.
Only in far west Texas is fair
■ weather expected to prevail.
m A 3 1-2-inch downpour at Odea-
jig ea flooded a 45-block area last
If rii^ht.
if At McCoy; in Atascosa County
below Sail Antonio. 6.42 inches of
i;S precipitation were recorded.
B A snuail line "which originated
near Victoria swept the coastal
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Cool Here
In Sulphur Springs, it wns n
cool 73 degrnoa nt midday
a few drop* of rein Were no-
ticed. Ralph Hill, official ob-
server, said Monday's high was
89 degrees and the low Tuee-
day was 64. Humidity was list-
ed at 53 per cent mad the ba-
rometer was 3G.10 and steady.
bend region with winds near Cor-
pus Christ! reaching 74 miles an
hour. Funnel clouds were sighted
between Mathis and George West,
ami at Alice and Ben Bolt.
The cloudbursts around McCoy
are sending the Atascosa River
on a sharp rise—especially be-
tween Cambcliton and Whitsctt.
McWhorter ranch in the water-
shed had 3.20 inches and Calallen
2.26.
At McAllen, in the lower Rio
Grande Valley an electrical storm
knocked a radio station off the
air for a time.
Rio Grande City had 2.59 inch-
es; Cleburne State Park, below
Fort Worth, 2.6b inches—for a 2-
dav total of 4.50; ■ Godley, ten
miles northwest of Cleburne, 2.40
inches; Denison, 1.89 in 2 days;
Killeen 2.28; Tilden 1.18; Corpus
Christi 1.20; Burleson ’1.40;
Sitfithville 1.12; Cresson 1.80;
Freer 1.06; George West 1.41;
Boyd 1.84; Mathis and Dallas
each about one inch; and smaller
amounts at scores of other points.
A cool front served to trigger
off the rains Sunday — first in
Oklahoma, then across North
Texas. Since then light to heavy
precipitation has continued to dot
the state—with the heaviest 7
inches Sunday, night and early|
Monday near Estelline in the
southeast Texas Panhandle. Lit-
tle rain has fallen so far in ex-
treme East Texas—such as Mar-
shall—dr in far West Texas.
1 Rescued After Airplane
Forced to Ditch in Pacific
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Display of Flags Urged
For Bypass Celebration
A full display of flags in Sul- cleared areas adjoining the hijrh-
phur Springs Thursday for the j way all can be used for parking,
celebration marking the opening he added.
of the new U. S. Highway 67 ! No parking will be allowed on
Freeway around the city was urg-tthe new highway, itself. J
ed Tuesday by officials of t n e National, Guardsmen will assist
®ymt. state highway patrolmen in eon-'j
Flag should be displayed in 'the j trolljng traffic during the.parade,
business district and all along the
Twelve guaulsnien under the tom
jnun of Warrant O f fi'c e. r Don
Young will be stationed at princi-
General Alarm
Sends Firemen
To Local Gin
parade route on Main and 'College
streets, R. S. Plummet^ arrange-
ments committee chairman, declar-
United States, Texas and Con-
federate flags are all desired for
the occasion, he added.
Starting at 3:30 p.m. at the
highway department.headquarters
on Main Street, the parade will
go across the city to the College
Street intersection of the new
freeway and then south and west
the dedication site at the old '
Como Road intersection.
Plenty of parking space w ill he j
available adjoining the riobon- '
cutting location, Plummer said.
Access roads paralleling the free--j lamrenicnts during the parade’s
way, edges of the State Highway - organization.
154 route across the overpass and] Appointment of Ewell I-ox as an
additional parade marshal was an-
nounced today. Other marshals
San Francisco, Oct. 16
(AP)—-A big American air-
liner crashlanded in the Pa-
cific today half way from
Hawaii to San Francisco—;-
and all of the 31 persona
aboard were saved.
The pilot — Captain Richard
Ogg~ditched the plane next to
the Coast Guard weather ship
Foriehartrain. Although the air-
liner broke in half when it hit the
water, those inside were able to
launch rubber’ boats. In a matter
of minutes the crew of the Ponch-
artrSin bad them aboard. -The big
airliner, a Stratocruiser, sank* in
21 minutes. Captain Ogg had de-
cided to ditch the plane when 2 of
his 4 engines developed trouble.
Five persons suffered minor in- ,
one was seriously
A general alarm at 12:20 Tues-
pal intersections along, the route;' day afternoon sent city firemen juries but no
Sgt. Ed Pringle of Dallas, state the D. A. Fiance Gin on OldJ hurt..........
higKwiiy patrol area director, will i Jefferson street. ! mu . , . , ,, , „
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I i^ady extinguished.
Thomas, local patrolmen.
To avoid traffic congestion, the I Fire Chief Harold Miller said
heavy transport section of the pa- j the fire was in a seed barn. Some
inoe will proceed West on L. S. cotton was apparently put in the
67 uftcr the ceremony to thy ham and it caught firtu
S t a X e Highway 1 h intersection, !
This will prevent the big trucks
turning into city traffic, Plum-'
nier explained.
T. A. Johnson, maintenance!
foreman fm the highway depart-!
ment here, will be in charge of ar-i
Only damage reported by fire- j
men was a small amount of cot-!
ton burned. i
Marines' Family
Ban io Stand
JUNIOR HIGH SWEETHEART—Pretty Lucy CarotHprv, sweetheart of tire Sulphur Springs Junior
Htgrh foctboH team, is shown after bping presented to fans at a recent game here. Her 'escorts
are Merle Black (left), Earl Black and Gerald Smith. Lucy is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Carothers. The Black twins are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Penny Black. Smith is the son of Mr
and Mrs. W. A- (Dub) Smith. fStaff Photo by T. A. Wright).
Purchase Orders
On Grain Being
Revised to $1.50
J. Dalton Mitchell, office man-
ager of the Hopkins County Agri-
cultural Stabilization and Conser-
vation com m i 11 e e, announced
Tuesday that the government had
advanced assistance from $1 to
Attorney General Shepperd
Appears as NAACP Witness
ormer French
Vernier Attacks
Policies on Suez
Paris, Oct. 16 (ji—The wartime
French premier, Paul Reynaud,
has, demanded that the French
j. Other marshals' Seoul, Korea, Octi 16 OP—Gen-
are R. S. Ted and. Bob McCor- j eral Randolph Pate .said today the
,11><'k. : Marine Corps’ ban against Mar-
Definite arrangements for tele- mes having their families with
vision coverage of the celebration them overseas will stand,
were confirmed Tuesday. ! Some 250 Marine wives in Jap-
Larry Raseo, news editor of, an have complained that their
KRLD-TV at Dallas, sabi his sta- j husbands have been threatened
tion would film both the parade | with continuous transfer unless
and ribbon cutting ceremony. The ; their families return to the U. S.
pictures me scheduled to be i within 30 days. These Marines
shown on the channel 4 "The brought their families to Japan at
that time, several other aircraft
and ships were sent out to help.
The St atoeruisei was a regu-
lar Pan-Americ.au .World Airways
flight from Jhe Orient.
Rescue Recalled
Nine years ago, almost to the
day, a British airline ditched in
the Atlantic. AH 69 personk
aboard were rescued by the Coast
Guard.
The British flying boat. Ber-
muda Sky Queen—-en route from
Shannon, Ireland, to Gander,
Newfoundland, encountered
strong headwind* and ran short
on fuel. She landed in heavy seas
near the Coast Guard weather
ship Bibb, 820 miies off New-
foundland on October 14th, 1947.
The Bibb, with boats and rafts,
succeeded in saving all despite
hiilrh winds and waves. Among the
rescued were 15 women and 13
children.
should return them to
office so that we can correct them
for the full assistance,” Mitchell
said.
In ailditoon, Mitchell said that
farmers who had turned in their
purchase orders pn or since Oct.
11 should contact their feed deal-
„*rs.„They can then have the old
purchase orders cancelled and rcl
issued for the higher assistance.
Mitchell said that a|l dealers
had been notified and are co-
operating.
Adlai Stevenson
Says H-Bomb
Deadlock Exists
Tyler, Oct. 16 W!—The state at-,
torncy general, John Ben Shep-
perd, was a surprise witness at
the NAACP trial in Tyler this
morning.
He took the stand as a witness
for the National Association for
Advancement of Colored People,
which' is fighting for its life in
this state.
Shepperd told the court:
‘‘I don’t think the U. S. Su-
preme Court endowed the i statements of this nature from
NAACP or any other orgaiiiza-! persons it Mansfield,
tion to enforce its order” opening! And Shepperd continued:
white schools to Negroes. f ..Wp had illformatjon B,,out
Specifically asked by an: Mansfield that made us very sus-
hi AACP attorney about a federal! picious about the attorney in the
integration suit soon to be heard i case, Clifford Davis, who also was
in Dallas, Shepperd said: .involved in a Tarrant County vot-
My interpretation of the U.S.: ing investigation, I believe Box
Supreme Court luling is that 120.
there is no time limit involved. I
City Councilmen
ASC
ere
think either side has a right tp
try to do what it thinks it should.^
Shepperd was op the stand 45
minutes, and there was no cross-
examination by the state. '
Shepperd said the expressed re-
luctance of a Negro boy to at*-
onighi
mw® ■ mi
The city commissioners will
Skmu 'Bmu>Ti«neeI~li*f'
month caused the state to begin
its investigation of the NAACP.
Under questioning by an
NAACP attorney, W. J. Durham
Sulphur Springs
AA's to Note
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meet tonight at 7:15 at the cityjof Dallas, Shepperd said:
hall.
* City Manager Jack Henderson
said that “routine business”
would be discussed j»t the weekly
meeting. f t
Hend;*r*on pointed out that
everyone was invited to attend
these meetings.
‘‘The reason for our intensified
interest at this time was a state-
ment made by one of the boys in
the Mansfield incident that he
didn’t want to go to school there
unless the NAACP made him
press it.”
He said he had numerous other
government explain why it failed | W^Mr-Today”' p,.0(jrram al their own expense,
to. use force against Egypt to in-
ternationalize the Suez Canal.
The man who led France in the
unsuccessful defense against the
Nazi onslaught sharply criticized
the policy Socialist Premier Guy
Mollet’s cabinet followed in th<$
Suez crisis.
Reynaud was one of the first
speakers in a week-long debate on
major French problems in the
National Assembly. He declaredt
“The government must tell
why it did not impose the results
of the London conference upon
Egypt. Why did it not use force
as it said it would!’’
Reynaud Conceded that once the
use of force was eliminated, the
only thing to t)o w-as to appeal to
the U.N. Security Council. He de-
nounced Egypt's nationalization
of the canal as a violation of poli-
tical morality a n d
law, and added:
“The more time goes by the
(Continued on Page Eight)
6:15 p. in. Friday. j General Pate, the Marine com-
Othcr television stations in this j mandant, made his comment In
area have been invited to have J Soul. While saying the bah would
representatives at the celebra- [ not be lifted, he salti 'Iie had no
tion. Contacts were made for a objection to Mnrine dependents
place OB the “Texas in Review” j who went to Japan as “private
program, but coverage could not visitors."
be obtained hecause ^of a heavy I Pate is going to Japan totnor-
backlog of prior commitments on J row as part of a tour of Marine
the program. ' posts around the world.'
Political Rally
Set Wednesday
Congressman. Wright Patman
ofTexarkana will head a delega-
tion-, to Sulphur Springs Wedncs-
iiVternational ^'"‘ornmg '«>/ « I>S!itical >’»%
boosting the ca/ididacfes of Adlai
Stevenson for presi dent and E»-
tes-Kefft.uver for vice president.
Directing the caravan, which
ill move Into Sulphur Springs editor
from Cooper, will be Mis. Ray- James.
Siar-Telegram
Editor Passes
Bank Shortage:
At Fort Worth
Still Growing
Fort Worth, Oct. 16 JV—Offi-
cials of the River Oaks State
Bank in Fdrt Worth have revealed
that the president of the bank,
Jack Hubbard, resigned Sunday
night.
The bank officials reported a
shortage "“when the bank failed to
open for business early yesterday.
In Washington, a spokesman
for the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation says the shortage is
more than twice the $300,000 cap-
ital of the bank. The spokesman
says it is in excess of $600,000
and “still growing.”
Plane Flies Mail
Font. Worth, Oct. 16 t/fi — The j *|» \ * .■
of the Star-Telegram,) 1 0 AniSrCllC
M. North, died at 11:10;
A birthday cake with a single
candle will mark the one-year an-
niversary meeting of the Sulphur
S p r i n gr Alcoholics Anonymous
group.
Non-members and members of
Alcoholics Anonym ous from
throughout East Texas will gather
at the National Guard armory at
8:00 p.m. Wednesday to. celebrate
the occasion.
This meeting will also pay trib-
ute to the man, Al Z— of Dallas,
who helped oiganize the local
group just, one year ago; he will
be the principal speiiker on the
program.
Brother Al is a member of the
Governor’s Commission on- Alco-
hol for the state of Texas. A
promlpentt business man and an
alcoholic who has hot taken a
drink for more than ten years, he.
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North cknTkai. Texas PartlyP A ^gntly decorated tvi.fh pifal whore he had been a patient 0i,t jjp r_A ,, s « Sk
cUmly and mild loniahl and WHnwday red, while and blue colors w ill be. since Saturday h ‘ , r \ •
with acattorerj ahr.weric 'and tkandmfow- l, . .... . ' ortuiiidl. (master hits left Christchurch Oil a
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BOUTII CENI-RAP and east TEXAS SIU<i Congressman Patman is ' a> •« mitt*<J -to the; hospital joa(| of _{h(. fjr<t th
tonw!{r .tr,yw^mC wlth 'SSSTwi ^ the public ' he had consulted a physic^ .vbVWic^s manning the bases
r ho wen and thundershower*. * 1 sqtiai e at 11 a. m. iw. ” -have received since Inst March.—
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THREE WALLS U.fr—-Constriudion wot;k <th' flulphur Sprin.jpt’ new
disposal plant southeast of town; is pilogre*Miig . teadjlj
I pietuie diaeldaes.
Throe walls of the lit,buff tanlUtavtr'Iieen com- r
pletetl, and other sections of the construction. project are moving
as this4, _ svrtftly toWfrd completion. (Staff Photo b,Y T. A. W'fight). ;
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 247, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 16, 1956, newspaper, October 16, 1956; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth829402/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.