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SWEETWATER. TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1955
NEA Telephoto Service
Price Daily 5c, Sunday 10c
VACATION—Wearing sports clothes and sweater, vacationing Pres. Eisenhower, left, discusses work-
ings of submarine with his brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, as they stroll around Key West, Fla., Naval
Base. The President is in Florida on a 12-day work-and-play vacation. (NEA Telephoto)
State Insurance Probe
Ordered By Committee
AUSTIN (#1—Rep. Wade Spilman
of MeAllen, House Investigating
Committee chairman, ordered an
inquiry today into Texas insurance
insolvencies and scheduled a meet-
ing of his committee for Jan. 19-
21.
Spilman did not specifically
^name U.S. Trust and Guaranty Co.
puf Waco as one of the firms to be
investigated but Rep. J. W. Cooper
of Corpus Christi said such would
be the case.
Spilman said his committee
would "welcome the appearance
of any citizen before the committee
who might have information relat-
ing to this subject (of insurance
insolvencies)."
Other members of the committee
are Reps. Reagan Huffman of Mar-
shall, Scott McDonald of Fort
^Worth, Jesse Osborn of Muleshoe
" and Jack Welch of Marlin. Huff-
man and Osborn served with Spil-
man on the committee which in-
vestigated the veterans land scan-
dal the past legislative session.
A state Insurance Commission
spokesman said three companies
Merchants To Give
•Many Useful Gifts
To New Year Baby
Sweetwater's first new citizen of
195G will be greeted with an array
of valuable and useful gifts from
32 local merchants.
These merchandise prizes will be
awarded to the first baby born in
i^he Sweetwater Hospital alter mid-
night on Sunday, January 1, 195G.
Parents must iive in Nolan or
Fisher counties to qualify.
Gifts include a full range of
baby necessities, cash, toys, jewel-
ry, and certificates to apply to-
ward the purchase of appliances
and ears.
Merchants participating in this
annual affair are: Cate-Spencer
Funeral Home, Stracener's Home
nrI Auto Store, Toler Jewelry,
■Sweetwater Floral, Russell's Dept.
Store, Nolan Furniture, Lieb's Food
Market, Frank Murchison, Sun-
beam Stores, McCoy Food Store,
Modern Furniture Store, Mark S.
Nichols.
Terrell Jewelry, Cox Jewelry,
Village, Food Market, Metzger's
Milk, Texas Rank and Trust Co.,
Hartgraves Bros. Firestone Service
Store, Jarvis Office Supply, Ben-
dix Laundrymatic, Singer Sewing
Renter, Harp Music Co., Curry Ap-
pliance Center, Pittnian Floor Cov-
ering and Furniture Store,
National Bank of Sweetwater, C.
R. Anthony Co., Callender Prescrip-
tion Pharmacy, Levy.s' Dept. Store,
Etz Studio and Camera Shop,
Wood Drug, Piggly Wiggly Stores,
and the Sweetwater Reporter.
operating under the same law as
the financially stricken U.S. Trust
and Guaranty have withdrawn ap-
plications to sell securities.
He said one of the three volun-
tarily dropped the application.
A second company's securities
plan was turned down because the
commission "didn't think their
proposition was sound."
The third frim pulled back its
application after being told the
commission "is not disposed to
register securities issues of any
such companies."
Insurance Commission records
indicate there are only live com-
panies, including U.S. Trust and
Guaranty, organized under the
state law that allowed U.S. Trust
to operate as a combination bank-
ing and insurance business. Prior
to Sept. 6, such firms were exempt
New Year Holiday
To Be Observed
Here January 2
Monday, January 2, will be a
general holiday in Sweetwater,
with banks and retail business-
es to close, BCD officials an-
nounced today.
The holiday is one of the six
annual holidays as recognized
by the Retail Trades commit-
tee of the BCD. Since both
Christmas and New Year's Day
fall on Sundays this year, De-
cember 26 and January 2 were
chosen as the officials holi-
days.
Schools will not have a holi-
day, however, since they con-
vened on December 28 after
the Christmas Holiday.
The Reporter will observe
the holiday Monday and will
not publish on that day. Regu-
lar publication schedules will
be resumed Tuesday, January
3.
Conflict In State Department
Revealed In New Yalta Papers
Dry Norther Strikes ^e"es's ^
i.
-..y
state
from regulation
agency.
A new law, effective Sept. 6,
gave the commission authority to
reject the application of U.S. Trust
and Guaranty and other such com-
panies for a securities permit.
One of the five companies. Great
Western Loan and Trust Co., of
San Antonio, was able recently to
qualify $518,000 worth of five-year
debentures, to pay 5 per cent in-
terest. These securities qualified
automatically—requiring no ap-
proval of the commission—because
the company could show a good
earning record.
GOP Primary
jSeeks Ike's Name
* HARRISBURG. Pa. Itfl—Repub-
lican factions in Pennsylvania were
united today behind a move to
place President Eisenhower's
name on the presidential prefer-
ence primary ballot April 24.
The decision to enter the Presi-
dent's name came with firm em-
phasis that it was reached without
consulting with him.
We have not asked the Presi-
lent to run," said Miles Horst,
tjrte chairman. "We're going
ahead on your own."
Some 35 Republican leaders
agreed here yesterday that Penn-
sylvania, the adopted home of the
President, should be given an op-
portunity to express its desire on
whether Eisenhower should run
again.
Sen. James H. Duff R-Pa, one
of the participants, said if the
President's health continues to Im-
prove, "1 feel he will run again."
•It
Heaviest Snowfall
In Years Threatens
Two Alaskan Cities
ANCHORAGE, Alaska l/PI—Two
Alaska cities were in a "state of
emergency" today as snow contin-
ued to pile up in the worst winter
storm in two decades.
From Cordova on Prince William
Sound to Fairbanks in central
Alaska, roads and highways were
blocked, traffic was snarled, rail
travel restricted and airports
closed.
The Weather Bureau predicted
more snow accompanied by a cold
Funeral Services
For John F. Pace
Set For Saturday
Cold Wave Brings
Below-Freezing
Temperatures Back
Sub-freezing temperatures were
recorded here early today for the
first time in several weeks, as an
overcast cold front enveloped
Sweetwater and a wide West Tex-
as area.
Early-morning temperatures of
31 degrees were reported in the
area, but no moisture in any form
was forthcoming despite the heavy
overcast of promising clouds.
The mercury climbed slightly
during the morning, and at 1:30
p. m. had reached 41 degrees.
Skies were still cloudy, but there
appeared to be a little chance of
moisture, although freezing rain
and drizzle has been predicted for
the Panhandle and South Plains.
In Former Secret Documents
WASHINGTON (AP)—The late Secretary of State Cor-
dell Hull once angrily told fellow members of the Franklin
D. Roosevelt Cabinet his former No. 1 aide Sumner Welles
"seemed to be operating a second State Department" with-
out interference from Roosevelt.
The kite Joseph Stalin plainly told Roosevelt soon alter
the 1945 Yalta conference that he intended to have Poland
a government which would establish "friendly relations"
with the Soviet Union.
Funeral services for John F.
Pace, 68, who died suddenly at his
home, 1207 Josephine, shortly be-
fore noon Thursday, will be held j expected Friday "in the Panhandle
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A cloudy, overcast day greeted
Texans Friday in the wake of a
new norther that threatened the
north half of the state with freez-
ing rain.
Temperatures near dawn ranged
from 23 degrees at Amarillo to 08
at Brownsville. Only a few points
in the northern and western tiers of
Texas has a freeze.
The norther already had swept
out inlr the Gulf.
Scattered points in the south re-
ported light rain: Del Rio .08 of an
inch, Houston .02, San Antonio
.09, Alpine .04 and Cotulla .11.
The state still suffered from the
prolonged fall and winter drought.
The forecast calls for a warm-up
Saturday.
The Weather Bureau said freez-
ing drizzles or light snow could be
WONDERFUL JOB—"What a wonderful job," sighs Russ Daley,
United Pres reporter as he interviews Maid of Cotton finalists at
Memphis. Tenn., Wednesday night. Winner, Patricia Anne Cowden,
Raleigh, N. C., is directly behind Russ. Left is Revis Jordan, Lub-
bock, Tex., first alternate and right, second alternate Minta Cur-
tis, Mission, Tex. Seated with Russ, left, Frances Habig, Jackson,
Miss., and Patricia Ann Stehr, Dallas, Tex. (NEA Telephoto)
Woman Is Suspected
In $1 Million Theft
Moscow advised the United
States in advance of Yalta that it
wanted to break up Germany into
smaller nations, "demilitarize Ger-
man industry," and collect repara-
tions in machinery over a 10-year
period.
These and other fragments of his-
tory—some of them shedding add- I
ed light on the origins of the cold
war—are disclosed in the publica-
tion of more than 40 previously
secret document's bearing on the
Yalta conference.
The State Department printed
the documents together with a vast
accumulation of other papers in a
1,032-page volume put on sale by
the Government Printing Office
late yesterday.
Only these 40 or so items are
new, and most of them deal with
minor developments of the 1944-45
period. The great buik of the Yalta
papers were made public last
March. Now the whole collection
has become available in book form
at $5.50 a copy.
TODAY'S
CHUCKLE
It's a pretty safe bet that
the husbands of the Ten Best
Dressed Women won't show up
on the list of the Ten Best
Dressed Men.
(Copyright General Features Corp.)
at 2 p. m. Saturday at the First i and South
Baptist Church, Rev. George Wil
son officiating assisted by Rev. J.
P. Murdock of Odessa.
Interment in Sweetwater Cem- i
etery will be directed by Cate-,
Spencer Funeral Home. 1
Pallbearers will be John Ilolbert,
Reed Whatley and Vent Johnson,
all son-in-laws; Otho Pace, John-'
ny Murdock, James B. Gann.
Pace's only son, Lt.-Commander >
Houston Pace, stationed with the
U. S. Navy in Hawaii, is due to ar-
rive here around 8 o'clock tonight.
Pace was a former grocer and j
restaurant operator, one of six bro-
thers, four of them prominent j
Sweetwater business men. He suf-
fered a heart attack which caused I
his death. Until a few years ago, |
Pace operated a cafe just south i
of Safeway.
He was horn in Alabama and j
came to Alto, Texas, in 1912. He
moved to Sweetwater in 1929.
Surviving are his wife, the form-
er Miss Birdie Lee Murdock whom
Plains with drizzles
| elsewhere over the state. Contin-
ued cloudy weather was predicted
for Friday and Saturday.
Sample overnight temperatures
included Austin 45, Beaumont 54,
Corpus Christi 64. Dallas 35, Dal-
hart 27, El Paso 39, Lubbock 30.
NORFOLK, Va. UP)— A hearing
on embezzlement charges aganist
Miss Minnie C. Mangum was post-
poned in police court today as
auditors continued to search her
firm's records to find shortages
that may top a million dollars.
The 52-year-old plumpish woman,
known for her charities and lavish
gifts to friends, appeared in court
with a woman of about her own
age and a man. She was arrested
yesterday as she left her lawyer's
Midland 36, Wichita Falls 31, Al- office, booked, and released in bail
pine 33 and San Antonio 49. of $25,000.
Liberalized Small
Lending Program
Business
Announced
wave which could send tempera-, hc married in Alto on Feb. 22, 1914;
lures to 50 below zero in some one son. three daughters —
areas. Mrs. John Holbert of Odessa, Mrs.
With 40 inches on the ground ,(eed whatley of Houston. and
and more snow falling, Mayor Ken | Ml.s Vent Johnson ot Foil Worth;
Hinehey of Anchorage, Alaska s livc brothers, Dewey, B. C., Joe,
largest city, called on its 50,000 alK| Di)1 ai| of Sweetwater, and A.
residents to shut down their busi-
nesses and remain in their homes.
Tv Clark of the Anchorage Times
said the situation was "real bad."
He said 28 inches of snow had
fallen since the storm started
Monday, "and it's still falling."
The temperature was 15 above and
winds with gusts up to 20 miles
an hour were drifting the snow.
Abandoned autos blocked city
streets and alleyways.
Emergency conditions also exist-
ed at Cordova where rain followed
days of heavy snow. In proclaim-
ing a state of emergency, Mayor
Harold Nordman said roads were
impassable, power lines were
down and there was some flooding
and danger of more.
Youth Regains
Partial Vision
John Fred Heflin, fourteen-year-
old Negro youth who was struck in
the eye with a B-B shot last Mon-
day, has partially regained his vis-
ion, relatives reported this morn-
ing.
Heflin is being treated at Hen-
drick Memorial Hospital in Abilene.
Doctors there said that he has a
good chance for getting back com-
plete vision. However, hc must re-
main at the hospital for several
more weeks before being released.
Heflin was injured Monday morn-
ing near his home when a neigh-
bor girl fired an air rifle and the
shot hit him in his right eye.
C. of Weslaco; two sisters, Mrs.
Birdwell Howe of Sweetwater and
Mrs. Inez Davis of Houston.
WASHINGTON W—The small
business administration announced
today a liberalized lending pro-
gram for "very small businesses"
—such as retail shops sssrestaur
repair shops and dry cleaners.
Administrator Wendell Barnes
said SBA will lend up to $15,000
provided the bank borrowers will
put up at least one lourth of the
total loan. Interest will be not
more than 6 per cent.
The SBA, Barnes said, will ac-
cept the bank's decision whether
the small businessman has ade-
quate collateral—which, in this
program, need not consist of more
than mortgage or real estate or
personal property, a personal en-
dorsement, an assignment of ac-
counts receivable, or a pledge of
warehouse receipts.
Barnes said corporations formed
by groups of "small publishers"
have been made eligible for SBA
pool loans for building or expand-
ing newsprint producing facilities.
Barnes admitted hc did not know
whether the newsprint program
was "practicable or not." An eco-
nomic newsprint mill would cost
about 36 million dollars and SBA's
legallv-fixed maximum loan would
be $250,000.
He said SBA is
On motion of Commonwealth's
Atty. Linwood B. Tabb Jr. the
hearing was continued until Feb.
7. He said "a very involved audit
is still in progress" and that it
would be to the advantage of every-
one to have further action deferred
until details are complete. Defense
counsel Max R. Broudy concurred.
Specifically, Miss Mangum,
$9,000-a-year assistant secretary-
treasurer of the Commonwealth
Building & Loan Assn., was
charged with embezzling $100,000
from the firm over the past 12
months.
Tabb said he had been advised
of additional irregularities that
would run to at least $800,000 more
over a five-year period.
The company, one of the largest
of its kind in eastern Virginia, may
need two months before auditors
can determine the exact loss to the
firm.
Writ To Hasten
Recovery Suits
Filed With Court
Work Crews Strive
To Close Big Levee
Gap Al Yuba City
SAN FRANCISCO (JPI — Work
crews, operating around the clock,
passed the halfway mark today
1 as they filled in a levee gap that
accounted for' 19 deaths at Yuba
City during the California floods.
Already the rebuilt levee was
; holding back Feather River wa-
ters from the stricken city, where
280 homes were destroyed and
1,200 others had major structural
damage.
The state death toll reached 47,
a jump of 12 since Wednesday
morning when water receded
enough that rescue workers were
able to start hunting victims.
In addition to the 19 Yuba City
victims, there were 8 in the Eure-
ka area, 8 at Santa Cruz, 3 near
Colfax, 2 in Tulare County and
1 each at Susanville, Santa Rosa,
Sacramento, Colusa, Hamilton Air
Force Base, Stockton and Siskiyou
County.
Northern California damage es-
timates rose to 150 million dollars.
Cleaning out the mud remained
an individual job. but government-
al and private agencies began pro-
viding large-scale aid.
The Red Ctoss said 4,600 persons
still were being cared for at 44
emergency shelters. At one time
the homeless were estimated at
50,000.
Road and rail traffic was still
limited in some stricken areas.
Blackwell Rites
Held For Sneed
At 2 P. M. Today
TROUBADOUR SHORTAGE
HolidaysQuietlnTexas,
But Not Exactly Routine
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texas cities say the holidays
generally have been quiet but not
exactly normal and routine. For
instance;
In Kingsville thieves crawled
through an ice chute into the South-
ern Texas Ice Co. and took an 8-
point buck deer. Nothing else was
bothered.
San Antonio has a shortage of
troubadors and mariachis—those
colorful musicians garbed in broad-
brimmed hats and Mexican rega-
lia. Too many civil service Job
offers and the charro outfits are
too expensive, says Joe Morante,
president of the Troubadors Assn.
and nobody wants a troubador not
in uniform.
Two boys in Corpus Christi got
a surprise when they tossed a
lighted firecracker in a passing
car. The driver of the attacked
vehiele was patrolman Barney
Final rites for Alvin Victor Sneed.
46, of Blackwell were to be held at
2 p. m. Friday at Blackwell Bap-
willing to ex- I tist Church. Sneed. an employe at
plore the subject with any group ! the Oak Creek Pumping Station,
of publishers which is interested," was found dead in his car after it
to see whether sufficient funds for struck a bridge abutment on the
a pool could be raised by combin- | highway south of Blackwell Tues-
ing the SBA loan with their own j day morning. The accident oc-
capital, bank borrowings, and pos- curred while he was en route home
sibly the proceeds of a stock issue, from work.
He said hc has received four or j Fellow workers at the pump sta-
five inquiries trom publishers as ] tion were to be pallbearers—Cecil
to whether SBA's authority to j and Harve Crain, E. J. Tucker,
make 10-year pool loans to groups Walter Stapp, Roy Lee, and Ernest
of small business concerns would j Ware. Listed as honorary bearers
be available to newspaper and j were Roy Duckett, Jack Geer. Jack
magazine publishing companies. | Teal, Paul Cain, Earl Critz, and
The SBA is barred by law from ! Everett Sims.
AUSTIN UP)—'The state has filed
a new motion with the state Su-
preme Court to try and hasten
prosecution of 1'4 million dollars
in civil recovery suits against
Gecrge Parr, Duval County poli-
tician.
It was a supplement to an ear-
lier motion which asked Judge R.
D. Wright of Laredo to dismiss a
$500,000 recovery action against
Parr.
The state's attorney moved for
a "non-suit" in the case Nov. 2
after securing authority of the
Duval County Commissioners
Court.
The petition said Wright refused
and asked attorneys for an agree-
ment on a date for a hearing.
The decision to dismiss the Lare-
do suit resulted after the Supreme
Court on Dec. 14 upheld the sus-
pension of Duval County Commis-
sioner Estella Garcia and swung
the lineup of the Commissioners
Court from pro-Parr to anti-Parr.
The state seeks to recover mon-
ey from Parr alleged to be county
funds misapplied to his benefit.
A motion was filed by Mrs. Gar-
cia for a rehearing on the suspen-
sion ruling.
Mrs. Garcia's suspension indi-
rectly gave the state a round in
its prosecution of civil suits against
Parr.
The Supreme Court's
Dec. 14 held that while Atty. Gen. lice reported.
John Ben Shepperd has no author- : A 1950 model sedan collided with
ity to bring such removal proceed- 1952 model panel truck as the se-
ing as those against Mrs. Garcia, dan attempted to pass. Driver of
Dist. Atty. Sam Burris of the 79th 1 the car was Jimmie Pullig. 16, and
District does have power. driver of the panel truck was Clif-
Burris and Shepperd have been ford Glass, 56. Damage to both
working closely in widespread in- vehicles was about $60.
vestigations of Duval County and No charges were filed, police
Parr. I said.
Autos Collide
At Underpass
An automobile collision Friday
morning at 8:45 at the Elm Street
exit of the Lamar Street underpass
resulted in only slight damage to
decision I both vehicles and no injuries, po-
Blount on his way home from
work.
In Big Spring police offered a
free "taxi" service to motorists j
who felt they had taken too many i
drinks to drive home. There were
no takers.
Houston taxi companies plan to
use the same idea New Year's.
Just call CA-2-9351 and police head-
quarters will radio the cab near-
est the pickled party goer. The
ride home is free and a second cab
employe will drive the celebrant's
auto home without cost, the Hous-
ton Taxicab Assn. said.
Rain or shine, warm or cold the
Corpus Christi Chamber of Com-
merce plans its second annual New
Year's swim in the Gulf Monday
at 2 p.m. The public has been in-
vited to join the splashing. Cham-
ber Manager Dan Chamberlin
said his force can either say "We
told you so" about Corpus Christi
weather or call hesitant spectators
sissies for not Jumping in.
Interment in Blackwell Ceme-
tery was to be directed by Cate-
i Spencer Funeral Home. Mr. Sneed
I is survived by his wife, a daugh-
ter. a son, two brothers, and three
! sisters. He was a deacon in the
making regular business loans to
newspapers and radios. Barnes
said SBA's loan policy board-
made up of himself, Secretary of
the Treasury Humphrey and Sec-
retary of Commerce Weeks—has
ruled that lending to a pool for j Blackwell Baptist Church.
the purpose of producing news- j
print would be legal, even though • J_ D
a direct loan to individual publ V3TOV(_.510C IxllCS
Newsprint is being consumed in • • lip I £ .
record quantities with deliveries rfelO i OT InTOnf
running 6 to 30 days behind sched-
ule and publishers' stocks reduced | Graveside rites were to be held
to the lowest point in 30 months. Friday afternoon in Sweetwater
Barnes said SBA would define a , Cemetery for John Ornelas. 9-
Police Official Reprimanded
For Revealing Graft To Press
NEW ORLEANS (.ft—Asst. Police
Supt. Guy Banister faced possible
disciplinary action today after re-
vealing a system of graft that
involved 91 policemen, from cap-
tains to patrolmen, in the New
Orleans Polise Department.
Supt. Provosty Dayries, who
agreed with the findings of the
Banister report, reprimanded his
assistant for releasing it to the
Mayor Delesseps Morrison is a
candidate and law enforcement a
top issue.
Former state police superinten-
dent and Francis Grevemberg, a
rival candidate, was quick to
seize on the report and point out
that the list of 91 names was con-
fiscated in a state police raid on
the home of Lionel Dominguez.
convicted New Orleans lottery op-
"small publisher" as one with few-
er than 500 employes.
THE WEATHER
WEST TEXAS — Considerable
cloudiness through Saturday with
occasional light rain Pecos Valley
eastward. Lowest tonight 20-26 in
Panhandle and South Plains and
26-38 elsewhere.
month-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Manuel Ornelas of Olvcra Street.
The infant died at the home at
6:30 Friday morning of a short ill-
ness.
Surviving are the parents and
two brothers. Manuel Jr. and Luis.
The father is employed at Washam
Nursery.
Patterson Funeral Home had
charge of arrangements.
press without clearance from the erator.
superintendent or the mayor. .k nl wl 5*
I" >hat 10 captains. 9 lieutenants, 26
Dayries said he was contem- sergeantSi 4g patrolmen and 7
plating some form of disciplinary . cjvl|ians Were involved in the graft
action in addition to the official ]
reprimand.
Banister is a former Chicago
FBI man. His revelation of bribery
and graft on a large scale up to
last June and on a small scale
since then had quick repercus-
sions in the governor's race, where
setup, which also involved reliev-
ing intoxicated persons of money
and valuables.
He said that 83 of the officers
were still with the department and
urged the council to recognize the
Importance of small corruption
going on.
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