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VOL. 82.—NO. 130.
SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1960
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Thunderstorms
Loom in West
Texas Sections
Another round of thunderstorms was building
up over parts of Texas Wednesday afternoon follow-
ing a sequence of widely scattered weather violence
Tuesday. A severe thunderstorm forecast was issued
tor an area along and 60 miles either side of a line
from 60 miles northwest of Marfa to 60 miles south-
east of Lubbock.
Large hail and damaging sur-
face winds were predicted from
3 p.m. to 9 a.m.
Cities in the alerted cone in
elude Lubbock, Odessa, Mid-
land, Big Spring, Snyder, La
mesa, Pecos, Monahans, Colo-
rado City, Seminole, Brown-
field and Fort Stockton.
Twiator* in Waat
Tornadoes prowled across
wide areas of West Texas last
night. Flood waters poured into
Bonham, and Greenville was
soaked by almost 4 inches of
rain.
Hail battered several West
Texas cities.
At least nine tornado fun-
nels were reported by residents
of the Monahans area, but
Safety Group
Pledges Aid
In Campaign
Members of the Sheriff’s
Safety Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce went
on record Tuesday night,
pledging co-opcration and sup-
port in a campaign to further
safety on Sulphur Springs
streets.
The committee, which met
at the sheriff’s office in the
county courthouse, plans to
encourage the current safety
campaign by working with
young people, showing films
and demonstration* featuring
street and highway safety, and
by taking a county-wide sur-
vey to locate and eliminate
any hazards the committee
may find.
Hazards the committee will
be especially watchful for are
blind corners, where approach-
ing motorists have restricted
vision, and reckless drivers.
The committee agreed ev-
ery citizen should not hesitate
to file complaints on traffic
(continued on page six)
none appeared to touch the
ground. Hail as large as base
balls smashed at Monahans.
Winds hit 96 miles an hour and
1.73 inches of rain fell.
Widespread damage was re
ported in Wink, which also was
battered by giant hailstones.
Hundreds of windows in build-
ings and automobiles were
smashed, telephone service was
interrupted and streets were
filled with rubble. A tornado
was sighted south of the city.
Another twister struck at
Frankel City, 13 miles weit of
Andrews. The storm overturn-
ed a trailer house, but an oc-
cupant, Mrs. Beverly Blansett,
escaped injury.
Hit Near Big Spring
W. D. Berry, civil defense
coordinator at Big Spring, said
two funnels hit the ground
about 20 miles west of that
city. Another hovered on the
east edge of Rig Spring but
didn’t touch the ground. Traf-
fic between B i g Spring and
Midland was halted for an in-
terval.
Creeks flooded homes and the
high school gymasium at Bon-
ham after 3.25 inches of rain
fell within 90 minutes. The
downpour apparently came
from the same storm that had
drenched Greenville earlier.
Sulphur Springs had only .08
inch of rain to bring the May
total to 3.07 inches and that
for the year to 14.02 inches,
slightly below normal for this
season.
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QUESTIONED—Melvin Hayes, seated left at the county jail
in Amarillo, Tex., is questioned by Armstrong County Sher-
iff Roy Brunson, left, and Potter County Sheriff Paul
Gaither in the fatal shooting of Hayes’ wife, Ruby, near
Tucumcari, N. M. (NEA Telephoto).
CONSERVATIVE PACE
New Construction
Activities Climb
Court Affirms
Local Case
Austin, June 1 (Ji — The
state Supreme Court affirmed
damages awarded J. C. Hare of
Hopkins County for injuries re-
ceived while he was working on
the O.P. Leonard farm. The
record shows Hare was injured
when a tractor barked over
him while he was trying to un-
couple a farm implement.
Officers Find
Stolen Truck
Deputy Sheriff Joe Kellum
reported he located a 1968
Chevrolet panel truck, which
he said was stolen in Dallas
Tuesday night, just east of Sal-
tillo Wednesday morning.
Kellum did not disclose the
owner of the stolen vehicle.
He said he found the vehicle
while attending to other busi-
ness near Saltillo. It was aban-
doned east of Saltillo on Inter-
state 30.
According to local police au-
thorities, a Texas Ranger has
been called in from Dallas to
make an investigation of t b e
stolen vehicle.
Temperatures reached 89 de-
gree* here Tuesday afternoon
and registered an overnight
low of 66 degrees.
More Stotma Seen
Ralph Hill, local weather ob-
server, reported the mid-day
temperature as 85 degrees, rel-
ative humidity as 50 per cent
and barometric pressure as
29.90 inches and falling.
The U. S. Weather Bureau
forecast temperatures averag-
ing a little below normal in
East Texas during the next five
days. Locally heavy precipita-
tation was predicted in scatter
ed afternoon and evening thun-
dershowers.
Ike Addresses
Young Leaders
Washington, June 1 Ml ■
President Eisenhower envisions
a day when there will be so
much understanding among na-
tions that Western countries
will no longer form an exclu
sive club. He told some 140
young political leaders from
North Atlantic pact nations
that even iron curtain coun-
tries could be included In such
understanding.
At one point, Eisenhower
got slightly annoyed because
three White House policemen
kept the visitors at some dis-
tance from him on the White
House lawn. He told the police:
I"! am not scared of anybody.”
Speedy Giani
Planes Seen
Miami Reach, Fla., June 1
tffl—Captain Eddie Rickenback-
er predicts that 60 years from
now, giant planes will cruise
high above the earth's weath-
er at 2,500 to 3,000 miles per
hour. In an address prepared
for delivery before the Rotary
International Convention in
Miami Beach, Rickenbacker
said these planes will “Fly
with silent, vibrationless com-
fort and will cross the Amer-
ican continent in little more
than an hour, the Atlantic in
less than two hours, and the
Pacific in scarcely 4 hours.”
New construction activities I
in Sulphur Springs coasted I
along at a restricted pace dur- j
ing May but still managed to
show a respectable dollar vol-
ume for the month.
Six new residences paced an
otherwise routine building
month. No commerical or pub-
lic buildings were started, and
only 12 building permits were
issued by the city.
Estimated cost of the May
starts totaled $60,285, as com-
pared to $58,060 for April and
$77,235 for May, 1959.
The list of permits for the
month follows:
O. E. Martin, addition of
room to residence on Radio
Road, estimated cost, $1,000.
First Baptist Church, new
parsonage on Doris Drive;
seven rooms and two baths,
two-car garage, brick veneer
construction, $22,000.
Max O. Gibson, addition of
room to residence at 510 Wood-
lawn, $450.
Billy G. Tolson, new three-
bedroom brick veneer residence
on Harred Drive, $10,000.
Robert P. Bailey, new two-
bedroom brick veneer residence
on Alabama Street, $7,500.
Robert P. Bailey, new four-
room frame residence on Weav-
er Drive, $2,000.
J. H. Huffstetler, conversion
of garage to bedroom and con-
struction of carport at 532 Tex-
as Street, $1,000.
Hack Gill, new two-bedroom
brick veneer residence with
carport on Harred Drive,
$8,000.
Bob Thomas Lilly, rebuild
and enlarge front entry of res-
idence at 811 Connally Street
and construction of brick ve-
neer front and side walls,
$2,000.
James Starrett, 444 Hous-
ton Street, boat shed fronting
on Jerry Avenue, $200.
C. 0. Moody, new three-bed-
room frame residence at Whit-
worth and WA streets, $6,000.
W. A. Davidson, South
Broadway, shed type canopy
over service station driveway,
$135.
Car Slightly
Damaged After
Turning Over
1,
Highway patrolman John
Odom reported no injury and
very slight damage resulting
from a one-car accident which
occurred at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
about a mile and a half north
of the local airport.
Odom said a 1965 Mercury
driven by Thomas Wayne Coker
of Como apparently slid off
tho road while negotiating a
curve and overturned, causing
only slight damage to the auto.
Coker, who was alone at the
time of the mishap, was report-
ed uninjured.
The accident occurred on a
dirt roatf north of the airport,
according to Odom. He said
Coker called a local wrecker
to come and right the vehicle
and then drove it off.
Decatur, 111., June 1 If —
Elovon-yaar-old Dennis Waka
and eight-year-old WiUiam
McCoy were playing catch
ini Decatur and Dennis threw
a wild ball that was lucky
for a Decatur weaaaa.
The bell went iato a sewer
catch baaim. The boys lifted
the lid and retrived the ball
along with a woman's parse
containing mors than $1,000
in US savings bonds. Thsy be-
longed to Mrs. Jessie Free-
man. The purse had been
snatched from her last Da-
camber.
Painting Raids
Staged by Girls
Dallas, June 1 If* — As many
as 15 high school students in
Dallas most of them girls, are
accused of being involved in a
series of painting raids on
schools and public places in
the Oak Cliff section. Damage
is placed at $1,225.
Juvenile Officer H. E. Petti-
grew said he had talked to five
girls, seniors at Adamson High
School, who admitted taking
part in one painting at South
Oak Cliff high school. Five
more girls were questioned
this morning at the Dallas
police station.
High schools painted are
South Oak Cliff, Gimhall, Sun-
set, Adamson and Mills. The
Methodist Hospital, a shopping
center, and school swimming
pool and a grocery store also
were hit by the paint vandel-
ism
Premier Kishi
Faces Drastic
Action ai Home
Seoul, Korea, June 1 (ft —
The Japanese Socialists are
contemplating a drastic step
in their efforts to arouse opin-
ion against Premier Kishi so
that he will resign or call new
elections. Socialist members
of the lower house of parlia-
ment are preparing their res-
ignations, which may be hand-
ed in shortly if a party con-
vention approves.
The Socialists make up
pearly one-third of the house
emberahip. And Premier
ishi's Liberal - Democrats
ive more than enough
ngCh to maintain a quorum
and keep the house in session.
But the thinking of the Social-
ist Party leaders is that they
might arouse so much anti-
Kishi sentiment that the gov-
ernment would resign or dis-
solve the house and call new
elections. Any dissolution of
the house before June 19th
would nullify approval of the
new U. S.-Japanese security
treaty, due to take effect on
that date. The treaty is a
major Socialist target.
A leftist student federation,
meanwhile, is planning to pick-
et President Eisenhower’s ar-
rival in Tokyo — also sche-
duled for June 19th — as a
protest against the treaty. A
federation spokesman says a
Communist - backed faction
within the group has orders
from the Kremlin to stage a
violent demonstration.
REMOVED FOR TREATMENT—Chilean sailors from the
transport Presidente Pinte carry victims of the earthquake
in Encud, Chile, to the ship for treatment. Chilean and U.
S. authorities are rushing emergency supplies to southern
Chile’s disaster areas to meet the desperate needs of the
survivors of last week’s earthquakes. (NEA Telephoto).
Water District
Directors Confer
Directors of the Sulphur Ashcroft said board
rtVE.POINT PROGRAM
Stevenson Outlines
Strategy for Peace
Chicago, June 1 IB—Adlai
Stevenson has outlined what he
calls a 5-point grand atartegy
for peace. He says the United
States should adopt such a pro-
gram in order to recover the
initiative in the cold war and
restore confidence in American
leadership.
Stevenson outline* hia pro-
gram in a speech prepared for
the convention of the Textile
Workers Union in Chicago.
The union already ha* endors-
ed Senator John Kennedy of
Massachusetts for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination.
Stevenson’a points are these;
Build up deterrent power and
limited war capability with
our NATO allies that does not
depend on what he calls the
budget bureaucrat*, \
Strengthen the Western al-
liance by building a stronger
political and economic commu-
nity in the free world and set-
ting up an Atlantic council. Premier Khrushchev. Steven-
Join allies in a long-range
aid program for poor coun-
tries.
Make it plain that general
and complete disarmament un-
der international control is an
imperative for all.
Show the world that free-
dom works in the United States
in meeting needa for school-
ing, research, health, housing
and all forma of public service.
Stevenson again criticiaes
the Eisenhower administration
in the wake of the collapse of
the summit conference. He
sayat ----- ---------
"The effectiveness for lead-
ership of the present admini-
stration in Washi n g t o n has
been impaired If not destroy-
ed.”
Stevenson calls the summit
failure a defeat for the p
of both Eisenhower and SoS
son says:
The Stalinist faction in Rus-
sia haa been strengthened. Red
China and Russia have been
thrust closer together. World
tension have been increased.”
Stevenson replies to Vice-
President Nixon’s contention
that aome Democrats are try-
ing to make • partisan inssue
of the summit conference fail-
ure.
In 1952 and 1956 Demo-
cratic presidential candidate
says Nixon would like to hush
foreign policy debate. Steven-
son says of Nixon:
“I don’t believe any member
of the opposition party today
will debase the national debate
as he did at a crucial point dur-
ing the Korean war when he
charged President Truman with
having lost 600-million people
to the Communists.”
86 Absentee
Votes Cast
Absentee voting for June 4
Democratic runoff election
closed Tuesday at the county
clerk’s office with 86 votes re-
corded. County employes said
this total may be raised slight-
ly by ballots in the mail which
have not yet been delivered.
All ballots with postmarks prior
to midnight May 31 will be ac-
cepted.
Voting was light compared
to the May 7 primary, but still
exceeded expectations by about
ten per cent. Employes at the
county clerk’s office had fore
cast a total of 70 votes earlier.
The total absentee vote record-
ed in tha May 7 primary was
189.
Athniral Sides
Given New Post
Washington, June 1 (fft —
The White House has announc-
ed that Vice-A d m i r a 1 John
Sides will become commander
in chief of the Pacific Fleet.
He’ll succeed Admiral Herbert
Hopwood, who’s retiring Sept.
1st. President Eisenhower has
sent to the Seriate the nomina-
tion of Sides to the rank of
admiral while he’s in command
of the fleet and the designation
of Hopwood to the rank of ad-
miral on the retired list.
The President aho nominat-
ed Rear Admiral Frank
O’Beime for the rank of vice-
admiral and announced he will
succeed Vice-Admiral William
Reea as commander of Naval
Air Force* in the Atlantic. Rees
will retire Oct. 1st.
River Municipal Water Distret
spent four hours discussing
various aspects of the stalled
Cooper Reservoir project here
Tuesday without reaching any
decisions on the problems con-
cerned.
Enos L. Ashcroft, a Sulphur
Springs representative on the
board, said there had been no
substantial change in the dead-
lock between the water district
and U. S. Engineers on local
costs for the big development.
Engineers cannot start
drawing plans for the reservoir
until an agreement is reached
on water storage space for
local use. District directors
consider the cost allocation
made by the federal agency so
high as to be beyond the reach
of cities represented in the dis-
trict.
Most of Tuesday’s meeting
was devoted to the discussion
of a report by Quentin Miller
of Cooper, board chairman, on
an appearance before a senate
public works subcommittee this
spring in support of a more
favorable legal basis for the
cost division.
Miller was accompanied to
Washington by John McCall of
Dallas, attorney for the dis-
trict.
Directors were told a house
committee had reduced the ap-
propriation for the project
from more than $2,000,000 to
$250,000 on the theory that
additional funds could not be
spent during the federal fiscal
year beginning July 1.
The $250,000 would be used
to complete downstream chan-
nel improvements now under
way on the South Sulphur
River beiow the reservoir site.
bers believe that if water easts
can be reduced to a reasonable
figure, it still will be possible
to proceed with the big de-
velopment
Chamber Group
Favors Hospital
Expansion Here
Expansion of Memorial Hos-
pital was advocated as a top
priority local need Tuesday
afternoon by members of the
Chamber of Commerce Indus-
trial contact team.
Members of the group de-
clared the crowded conditions
prevailing at the hospital will
prove a handicap to industrial
expansion as well as being an
obstacle to permitting best
possible medical care for Hop-
kins County residents.
Possibilities for initiating a
campaign for a hospital expan-
sion program were explored.
The rest of the meeting
was devoted to a general dis-
cussion of the chamber’s in-
dustrial program.
WEATHER
KAST TEXAS — Pittl; etowly
through Thursday with acatterwd ahow-
«n and than*, rater— No iatgortut
Impmtun changes. Loweat tunivh:
S* to 71. Highest Thumiay M to M.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS Partly
cloud* through Thursday with widely
*NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS Partly
,-loudy. scattered ahowwra and thunder-
storm* tha afternoon and tonight and
in Mvtheaat rertion forty Thunday.
Locally cooler Thunday.
NORTHWEST TEXAS — Partly
cloudy through Thunday. scattered
The senate version of the ap- Uumdetatartw tonight. Cooler Thura-
propriations bill still contains southwest Texas — Paritiy
the $2,000,000 figure original- j r^ throu^^Thura^y with widely
ly listed in the federal budget. a twupemtnm.
Washington, June 1
(AP) — A high official
of the National Space
Agency has revealed that
high - flying U-2 planes
have made more than
200 weather flights since 1956.
But the deputy administrator
of the National A eronautics
and Space Administration, Dr.
Hugh Dryden, told the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
that NASA has no intelligence
activities either in the devel-
opment of devices, methods,
instruments or operations.
The Senate group is making
a general inquiry into the
summit fiasco, including the
downing of a U-2 spy plane in
Russia May 1st. The first U.
S. word on the plane was an
NASA statement that a weath-
er plane based in Turkey was
missing.
Much of the questioning of
Dryden centered around this.
He told the senators that the
Central Intelligence Agency
cleared what he termed “the
substantive facts” of the state-
ment. But he added: “I would
like to emphasize that the text
of that statement as issued
was not cleared with the CIA
or anyone else.” But he said
the information in it was
cleared with the intelligence
agency and, he was told by
CIA, with the State Depart-
ment.
Dryden’s testimony was de-
livered at a closed session of
the committee, but was made
available to newsmen after
censoring of the transcript.
The NASA official said the
U-2 flights have taken place
in the United States, Western
Europe, Turkey and Japan and
extend throughout the world.
He explained that his agency,
in doing its job of research
on improving aircraft devel-
opment and operations, ar-
ranges to put instruments on
both military and commercial
planes. He added that it has
"cooperated with foreign gov-
ernments and airlines by lend-
ing instrumentation.”
After the session with Dry-
den, Committee Chairman J.
William Fulbright said the
testimony indicated the bulk
of the U-2 flights for the
space agency were for study
of air turbulence and other
weather data. Fulbright also
voiced the view that using the
space agency as a cover for
spy activities was “a danger-
ous undertaking.”
English Classes
Set at School
During Sommer
Delay in Highway
Work Confirmed
A delay in plans for award-
ing a contract this month for
first construction work on
Interstate Highway 30 east of
Sulphur Springs was confirm-
ed Wednesday by highway de-
partment representatives here.
It is now hoped to seek bids
on grading and structures for
the 4 H-mile section of super-
highway in July.
Moving of utility lines on
the highway route is under-
stood to be the principal ob-
stacle in getting the big pro-
ject ready for the bidding
stage.
Four lane paving on Inter-
state 30 now extends from
Dallas east to the Rock Creek
bottom at the eastern edge of
Sulphur Springs.
Surfacing work on the grade
separation system in the Rock
Creek area was completed
Wednesday. It is the last of
the series of overpasses in the
Sulphur Springs area to be
finished.
Work is expected to start
this week on the extension of
FM Highway 71 from Ridge-
way south and east to Bra-
shear. Construction of cul-
verts will be the first, step in tied Saturday In
the project. ocratic primary.
Principal Truman Drake re-
ports that a new group of stu-
dents will hold forth at the
local high school beginning
next Monday. According to
Drake, that is when approxi-
mately 20 students will start
summer school classes, sche-
duled to last the next eight
weeks.
Drake said the summer ses-
sion would cover tenth, elev-
enth and twelfth grade Eng-
lish courses with Mrs. Bert
Campbell teaching all grades.
Mrs. Campbell will instruct
classes in both literature and
grammar, he said.
Students who are to enroll
in the summer courses are
asked to report to room 16 of
the high school at 8:00 p. m.
Monday. Classes will be held
from eight until twelve each
day for the next eight weeks,
he said.
———
Judges Battle
For Election
Austin, June 1 (* — Cam-
paigns of the two judges for
a place on tho court of crim-
inal appeals haa picked up ex-
tra momentum. Ji3i • T j j
A testimonial
planned tonight a§|ti«lhi
the incumbent,
Davidson. And
load of supporters
Judge W. T. Mel
Bryan ia to visit*
tin and Sun Anton
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