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VOL. 82.—NO. 130.
SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1. 1960
6 PAGE8 —5 CENTS
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
for 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 a a.m.
Cities in the alerted zone in
elude Lubbock, Odessa, Mid-
land, Big Spring, Snyder, La
mesa, Pecos, Monahans, Colo-
rado City, Seminole, Brown-
field and Fort Stockton.
Twister. in Wad
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
Safely Group
Pledges Aid
In Campaign
Members of the Sheriff’s
Safety Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce went
on record Tuesday night,
pledging co-operation 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 demonstrations 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-
ecy- citizen should not hesitate
to file complaints on traffic
(Continued on pare six)
Court Affirms
Local Case
The
none appeared to touch the
ground. Hail as large as base-
balls smashed at Monahans.
Winds hit 95 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 welt 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 Big 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.
Temperatures reached 89 de-
grees here Tuesday afternoon
and registered an overnight
low of 65 degrees.
More Stoim* 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-
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Lucky Pitch
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
Decatur, III., June 1 IYI —
Eleven-year-old Denni* Wak*
and eight-year-old William
McCoy were playing catch
ia, Decatur and Denni* threw
e wild hell that vu lucky
for a Decatur woman.
The bell went into e sewer
catch basin. The boya lifted
the lid and retrived the ball
along with a woman’s pursa
containing more than $1,000
in US savings bonds. They be-
longed to Mrs. Jessie Free-
man. The purse had been
snatched from her last De-
cember.
New construction activities!
in Sulphur Springs coasted j
along at a restricted pace dur-1
ing May but still managed to!
show a respectable dollar vol-1
unre for the month.
Six new residences paced an j
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 0. Gibson, addition of
room to residence at 510 Wood-
lawn, $450.
Billy G. Tolson, new three- i
Car Slightly
Damaged After
Turning Over
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 e 1955 Mercury
driven by Thomas Wayne Coker
of Como apparently slid off
the 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
Premier Kishi
Faces Drastic
Action at Home
Seoul, Korea, June 1 lift —
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
♦early one-third of the house
membership. And Premier
Kishi’s Liberal - Democrats
have more than enough
strer
Speedy Giant
I Austin, June 1 Ml
state Supreme Court affirmed see m
damages awarded J. C. Hare of I \AOVl
Hopkins County for injuries re- * ***“*•* VWloA*
ceivcd while he was working on
the O.P. Leonard farm. The
record shows Hare was injured
when a tractor backed over
him while he was trying to un-
couple a farm implement.
Officers Find
Stolen Truck
Deputy Sheriff Joe Kellum
reported he located a 1958
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 h e
stolen vehicle.
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
get slightly annoyed because
three White House policeman
kept the visitors at some dis-
tance from him on the White
House lawn. He told the police:
|**1 am not scared of anybody.”
Miami Beach, Fla., Juno 1
Ml—Captain Eddie Rickcnback-
er predicts that 50 years from
now, giant planus will cruise
high above the earth’s weuth-
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.”
ngth to maintain a quorum
and keep the house in session. ! Spenj four hours discussing
But the thinking of the Social- various aspects of the stalled
ist Party leaders is that they j Cooper Reservoir project here
might arouse so much anti- Tuesday without reaching any
Kishi sentiment that the gov- j decisions on the problems con-
__: * ! ernment would resign or dis- cerned.
according to OdomI'K! s®lv* the ho.USe *nd .cf ne* Enos L‘ Ashcroft, a Sulphur
Coker called a local wrecker ‘‘‘ect‘onS’ *"/ d,ssIolutl°" of Springs representative on the
-- ------* ----- ’ , in onri -isriaf house before June 19th board, said there had been no
nnd Hrr.6rinriiretmrnnnenct‘ i and then drove it off. would nullify approval of the substantial change in the dead-
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.
Boh 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 Hons-(this morning
ton Street, boat shed fronting police station,
on Jerry Avenue, $200.
C. O. Moody, new three-bed-
room frame residence at Whit-
worth and WA streets, $6,000.
Painting Raids
Staged by Girls
Dallas. June 1 (J' — As many
as 15 high school students in
Dallas most of them girls, arc
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
at the Dallas
new U. S.-Japanese security lock between the water district
treaty, due to take effect on and U. S. Engineers on local
that date. The treaty is a
major Socialist target.
A leftist student federation,
meanwhile, is planning to pick-
et President Eisenhower’s ar-
costs for the big development.
Engineers cannot start
drawing plans for the reservoir
until an agreement is reached
on water storage space for
rival in Tokyo — also ache- local use- District directors
duled for June 19th — as a <’ons,d«r the cost ^location
protest against the treaty. A "lade b-v th,e federal agency so
federation spokesman says a hl*h. a* t0 be beyond the reach
Communist - backed faction of c,t,es represented in the dis-
trict.
within the group has orders , ,
from the Kremlin to stage a Mof 0 Tuesday’s meeting
■ - b was devoted to the discussion
violent demonstration.
86 Absentee
Votes Cast
Absentee voting for June 4
j Democratic r u n o f f election
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
High schools painted are
South Oak Cliff, Gimball, Sun-
set, Adamson and Mills. The
Methodist Hospital, a shopping
W. A. Davidson, South center, and school swimming
closed Tuesday at the county I D*6as, uttorney for
Broadway, shed type canopy
over service station driveway,
$135.
pool and a grocery store also
were hit by the paint vandel-
ism
FIVE-POINT PROGRAM
Stevenson Outlines
Strategy for Peace
Chicago, June 1 (Ml—Adlai
Stevenson has outlined what he
calls a 6-point grand startegy
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 outlines his 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's points are those:
Build up deterrent power and
limited war capability with
our NATO allies that does not
depend on what he calls the
budget bureaucrats.
Strengthen the Western al-
liance by building a stronger
political and economic commu-
ting up an Atlantic council.
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 needs for school-
ing, research, health, housing
and all forms of public service.
Stevenson again criticizes
the Eisenhower administration
in the wake of the collapse of
the summit conference. He
says:
"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 policies
Steven-
nity in the free world and set* of both Eisenhower and Soviet! to the Communists.”
Premier Khrushchev,
son says:
The Stalinist faction in Rus-
sia has 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 some Democrats are try-
ing to make a 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:
“1 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 j
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.
trict
Directors were told a house
committee had reduced the ap-
propriation for tthe 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-
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
River Municipal Water Distret bers believe that if water oasts
can be reduced to a reasonable
figure, it still will be possible
to proceed with the big de-
velopment.
Chamber Group
Fa von 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.
Washington. June I
(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 Dry den, 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 waa
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 waa made
available to newsmen after
censoring of the transcript.
The NASA official aaid 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 ageney,
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 haa
"cooperated with foreign gov-
ernments and airlines by lead-
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 date. Fulbright also
voiced the view that using the
space agency as a cover for
spy activities was “a danger-
ous undertaking.”
WEATHER
Admiral Sides
Given New Post
Washington, June 1 UP —
The White House has announc-
ed that Vice-A d m i r a I John
Sides will become commander
in chief of the Pacific Fleet.
He’ll succeed Admiral Herbert
llopwood, who’s retiring Sept.
1st. President Eisenhower has
sent to the Senate 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 also nominat-
ed Rear Admiral Frank
O’Beirne for the rank of vice-
admiral and announced he will
succeed Vice-Admiral William
Rees as commander of Naval
Air Forces in the Atlantic. Rees
will retire Oct. 1st.
EAST TEXAS — Partly cloudy
through Thursday with Katlcred show
m and lEuaettatonea. No important
tmpmtun . hanaca. Usmt tonivht
SS to 75. Hit-hot Thurwlay W to ».
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS—Partly
cloudy throuyh Thursday with widely
aealtmd thuederahowera.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS Partly
.-loudy. aratteted shower* and thunder-
. . _ . ,i Verm* this afternoon and tonisht and
nel improvements now under iB ^nkm *«riy Thumday
way on the South Sulphur 1 „ .,
River below the reservoir Site. thrwnr*. Thumday. acetseml
The senate version of the ap- thundccuorma tonight. Coder Thur*.
propriations bill still contains southwest Texas — ParI tly
the $2,000,000 figure original-I rloody through Thumday with widely
ly listed in the federal budget. in t^pvrwtum.
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 hop«d to seek bids
on grading and structures for
the 4 V* -mile section of super-
highway in July.
Moving of utility lines on
the highway route is under-
stood to he the principal ob-
stacle in getting the big pro-
ject ready for the bidding
stage.
Four lane paving on Inter-
state SO 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 a re a was completed
Wednesday. It is the test 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-
English Classes
Set a! School
During Summer
Principal Truman Drake re-
ports that a new group of stu-
dents will hold fortii 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 10 of
the high school at 8:00 p. at.
Monday. Classes will bo hold
from eight until twelve each
day for the next eight weeks,
he said.
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Judges Battle
For Election
verts will be the first step in tied Saturday In
the project.
Austin, Juna 1 Ml —— Cam-
paigns of the two judge# for
a place on the court of crim-
inal appeals has pick ad op ex-
tra momentum. • ;f
A testimonial
planned tonight at Austin
the incumbent,
Davidson. And a special
load of supporters for
Judge W. T. Mcl
Bryan it to visit Te
tin and San Ant
The run-off race to
ocratic primary.
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