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VOL. LVItl—NUMBER 54 ^S&SffTSm
ORANGE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1961
14 Pog«t $ vents
SHOOT OUT f
A •hoot oat between two *H-
((•ton is expected tomorrow
night whoa Buna plays Dimmitt
for the Class AA state
jrfonsMp at Aastla.
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SO DISAPPOINTED—This .Tittle pooch, a familiar figure around
the Mauriceville School where he quite frequently tries to attend
classes struck a mighty lonesome pose this morning at the tightly
locked entrance to the school. Mauriceville was almost- a ghost
Die's Resignation Asked
Members of the Bridge City
School Board last night went on
record in ad to 1 vote to request
the resignation of Supt. Grovcr
Die and proceed with plans to
name a successor.
A series of resolutions were
passed on the procedure to be fol-
lowed Ln the employment of a new
superintendent. Die's ouster has
been a prime Issue in current
races for Bridge City School
Board posts.
There are eight candidates seek-
ing election to the two pending
vacancies. T. E. (Eddie) Cone, an
Incumbent seeking re-election, in
an earlier state*/ienfL had sought
Die's removal as district superin-
tendent.
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The series of. five resolutions are Board for further study and In-
vestigation. Also that"'$5QQ..Jbe al-
as follows:
1,;.That a standing request' for
Mr. Die's resignation be record-
ed on the minutes. "
2. That the Bridge City Inde-
pendent School District Board of
Trustees Immediately start ac-
cepting applications tor the posi-
tion of superintendent for a term
to begin at a time to be determined
following Mr. Die's vacating this
office, but in no case plater than
July 1, 1962, which immediately
svicoSeds expiration of Mr. Die's
contract on June 30, 1962.
,3. That a Board committee be
appointed by July 1, 1961, to
screen the applications and submit
the four most favorable to the
tigatic
lotted in the 19fil-62 budget for ex-
llcants
best qualified
penses incurred in thoroughly in-
vestigating the applicants to In-
sure selection ,of the
application.
4. That the successful applicant
be placed under contract as soon
after July 1, 1961, as practicable
following approval by the Board.
5. That no apllcatlons from the
immediate local area be consid-
ered for this position,
All seven members of the Board
were present last night in the meet-
ing at the school along with their
attorney, Charles Bradford of Or-
ange. Supt. Die was also in at-
tendance.
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Twenty-two miners died
explosion deep in a coal shaft
Thursday night. Their torn,
burned bodies were hauled out by
masked workers in a hazardous
10-hour operation.
"We d°a*t know what caused
the explosion," the mine general
manager said, "but we're going to
start an investigation tomorrow
morning to find out."
The 22nd body was carried out
in a clattering mine rail car at
7:35 a.m. today. It had been about
six hours since the first body was
found. ' ,
The blast ripped through a
shaft deep in the Viking mine
about eight miles southwest of
Terre Haute.
Pockets of intense heat and
deadly coal gas threatened the
operation and forced the rescuers
to flush forward with the greatest
care.
They said there was danger of
another explosion, and as they
moved forward they sprayed
chemicals to prevent it. State Po-
lice put up rope barriers 15 yards
from the shaft to. keep grieving
relatives from danger.
The explosion was so far un-
derground that nobody heard It,
and mine officials Were unable to
pinpoint the time.
\ Just when the explosion was
discovered was not clear, either.
Apparently the first Indication
came about 7:45 p.m. when an
air pressure gauge on the surface
i dropped to sero. An official at-
tempted to telephone the miners
and got no response to-repeated,
frantic ringing. X
Then cbal dust was seen hH-
.. ■ i ^ . lowing from the iShalt.
The' resolution and a statement Twenty-two other miners Tn an-
of policy were passed by a 6 to 1 other section were immediately
vote. The lone vote against the
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — hay* to check their'belt numbers
in a flash
to identify them."
A rescue worker said: "You
couldn't see anything In ' there.
The smoke was black as night,"
The mine has a total of about
200 employes working In shifts
around the clock to provide fuel
for the nearby Wabash , power
plant of the Public Service Com-
pany of Indiana,
Off-duty miners rushed to the
shaft (o aid- the state mine rescue
crew, headed by Charles A, Pur-,
cell, Indiana director of mines
and mining. - .
• The mine is about 200 yards
west of the Wabash River In des-
olate hilly country.
Thd bleak scene was illuminat-
ed only by two or three flood-
lights. About 200 persons stood in
the dark and cold outside the rope
barrier manned by State Police-
most of them families and friends
of the trapped miners.
A woman standing next to a
reporter asked the- time. When he
told her, she said: "Oh, my God,
I've only been here an hour and
a half and It seems like all
night."
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
With Russia
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON (AP) - Britain
and the United States were re-
ported fully agreed today to make
one more major effort to nego-
tiate a treaty outlawing , nuclear
test explosions with the Soviet
Union. '
The Kennedy administration Is
understood to be prepared, along
with Britain, to offer Mi
some compromise proposals
the international inspection fvi
tem which would be set up under
—L*o<t«r Ptwto bv Eil
town as Panther fans followed their basketball team to Austin. The
Panthers were nipped by iFrankston 54-43 In the semi-finals this
morning. y - •
Sheriff Reid Testifies
In Perjury Trial Today
NEW ORLEANS (AP)—A Louis- Reld ordered a stop to gambling
id or accepting In Calcasieu Parish in I960.
measures was cast by .Guy O.
Rascoe. Rascoe when asked for
ordered to the surface.
What touched off the explosion
was not known. There was spec-
illation that the miners broke
comment today told The Leader through into an old shaft In which
Statement Is Issued
Explanation of Board's Action Made by Brint
BRIDGE CITY fSp!) - An ex-
planation for the position of the
Bridge City School Board In re-
queuing the resignation of Supt.
Grover Die came today from
President Harrah W. Br int.
In a prepared statement Brint
also made reference to rumors
which have swept through the
Bridge City community. They were
labeled as "totally fafee and with-
out foundation."''
Brlnt's statement Is as follows:
"I feel that the decision of the
Board to make'public the feelings
of the Board and some of the Is-
sues Involved is as it should be.
"The Board had hopes of re-
solving, the problems withput in-
volving personalities. Now, as
teachers, children and parents are
being drawn Into this, and false
rumors being circulated to bring
discredit on the Board, I feel we
New Tensions Reached
Sudanese Troops, Congolese
Stage Battle in Banana Port
LEOPOLDVILLE. the Congo
(AP)—U.N. Sudanese troops and
Congolese soldiers fought a gun
battle in the Atlantic port of Ba-
nana today, the U.N, reported.
Anti-U.N. tensions reached new
heights in Leopoldville.
Preliminary U.N. reports said
one Congplese soldier was killed.
In Leopoldville all U.N..,non-
rtiilftary personnel were ordered
to leave tneir offices early and go
directly home to avoid the pos-
sibility of clashes *lth Congolese
army units roam'.tig the streets.
Unruly Congolese troops
launched a series of attacks on
U.N. personnel Sunday and the
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Data Prsm U.S. WmUnt aw—
OUTLOOK—Considerable ctomflnwf ond
mlto through tomorrow, with scattered
•Itowerj end thwidenhewers. Highest temp-
erature today and tomorrow near 71,
and the lew tonfght about 42. Small croft
WSrrtMt or* displayed tor southerly winds
JS to 35 m.p.h. toddy, diminishing some-
tonight but Increasing again tomor-
row m to u m.sJk.
TICKS—Sabine: high, 3:31 a.m., 4:4*
■I tow, : gjn„ t-JO p.m. Bolivar:
.! tow, 11:14 a.m..
J:M «.m„ l:S7 p.m.; tow,
Ut£-Tlses 4 a
sets 1:17
YKSTBROAY — Temperatures, high 7*.
capital was slowly getting back
to normal, when the news came
from Banana.
^The incident came at a time
when the Congolese government
also was at odds with the U.N.
command over a demand that It
be allowed to guard Leopoldville
Airport.
The dispute was a symptom of
the tensions between the U. N.
command and President Joseph
Kasavubu's government. The
United Nations refused to with-
draw its airport guards in favor
of the Congolese. The U. N. com-
mand said it has to guard its
lines of communication.
Kasavubu has been reluctant to
cooperate with the United Na-
tions. He has demanded the re-
call of . Rajeshwar Dayal, the
U N.'i, Congo chief, on the
ground that Dayal has allowed
the control of leftist forces in
Stanleyville to spread over a
third of the country. 1
Kasavubu Is following a policy
of conciliation with the Congo's
other arttl - Communist leaders
President Moise Tshombe of Ka-
tanga Province and Albert. Kalon-
L chief of the mining state of
th Kasal.
in a conciliatory move Thurs-
day, ' Interior Minister Cyril
Adoula said a number of politi-
cal prisoners will be freed by Ka-
savubu's government. He did not
Identify them but said prisoners'
flits will be exfcmined and (hey
will be released If their crimes
were, minor.-'
All was reported quiet In Lulua-
(See CONGO, Page 11)
are no longer obligated In sup-
pressing the views of the majority
of the Board.
"Rumors that a pl&inge. In ad-
ministration will affect our accred-
itation and opr seniors on entering
college is not true. Rumors that a
change is being made simply to
promote certain exisiting school
personnel are completely false
and without foundation.
"This has never been suggested
or considered by any Board mem-
ber M my knowledge. Rumors that
the Board has given no reasons
for requesting a resignation are
not true. Those reasons have been
discussed in executive and com-
mittee sessions with the superin-
tendent.
"The main Issues involved here,
it seems to me, are: Does the
Board have any power or say in
the operation of the school district
such as: the spending and financial
accounting of school funds, poli-
cies and procedures for operating
the .district, raising the scholastic
standards and rating of our
schools? Or Is the Board to be
reduced to merely a tax levying
body with very little control over
the expenditure of those taxes
These are not personality or po-
litical Issues.
"Buildings do not make a school
any more than a house makes
a home, even Jf they are halls of
marble. The greatest effect on our
seniors entering college this year
and the years to come is not who
is superintendent, or on the Board,
but from the Academic standards
we set and reach In our school."
deadly coal gas had accumulated.
As soon as the explosion was
discovered, fresh air was poured
into the mine, but it had no
Chance of penetrating the wall of
swirling dust, smoke and fume*—
and. anyway, all 22 men appar-
ently died in the blast.
The men "were 266 feet below
the surface and about three miles
back in the sloping shaft.
Birch Brooks, vice president
City system. an<^ general manager of the Vlk- him to use his influence with Reld
- - tog Coal Corp., said, "We will to
he had nothing to , say either on
his vote or:Board action.
Die was in ' Austin today and
not available for comment. Offi-
cials- at Che Bridge City School
said he had gone to Austin to at-
tend the state basketball tourney.
It was Indicated that he would
probably also visit the Texas Ed-
ucation Agency office while in the
capital.
He is now completing his 19th
year with the Bridge City system.
Die, 49, came to bridge City in
November 1942 as a principal. At
that time it was a common
school district. He assumed the
superintendent's dutfes when fe
became an independent district
Die has a B.S. degree from
Stephen F. Austin College and a
master's degree from the Univer-
(See DIE, Page 11)
" AUSTIN (AP)—Texas leglsla-
. n . . , , , ,tors have a chance next week to
JA^ki U(W@Sift£2tfilCn :*ork on a tax bin with bullMrt
stretchers.
GENEVA (AP)—Ghana asked Both houses are In adjournment
the International Labor Organlra- until Monday.
tlon Thursday to investigate al- Thursday, the House Revenue
leged forced fabqr practices in the and Taxation Committee recom-
African territories- of Portugal.]mended passage of a bill fHB334)
lana Sheriff accused of accepting
money from gamblers was ln line
to testify today in the federal
court perjury trial of a onetime
gambling establishment operator.
Marion Johnson. Vho was a
gambler operating In the Lake
Charles-Orange area, is charged
with lying to a federal grand Jury
when he said he never made a
yoff to Calcasieu Parish Sheriff
ry (Ham) Reid Jr.
Sst, Judge Mark Plckrd of
Lake Charles, the county seat of
Calcasieu Parish, testified Thurs-
day he had gambled in a number
of clubs ln tne area.
He denied he ever discussed
taking any money from Sheriff
Reld, who was under bioome tax
investigation when Johnson testi-
fied before the grand jury ln New
Orleans three years ago.
Pickrel said gamblers John Nlel
and Joe Theall, who testified ear-
lier as government witnesses, vis-
ited him in an attempt to force
for Texas Legislature Next Week
reopen gambling ln the parish.
Under cross-examination, Pick-
rel admitted borrowing $5,000
from Sam Smith, a former gam-
bler, to buy some property. The
id he jjave Smith a i
mort-
Judge said
gage and paid ft off two years
Another Witness was a former
business partner of Smith. H. L.
Jones of DeQulncy, who told the
lury he and Reid borrowed $17,000
from Smith to purchase a gas
company at DeRJdder in 1949.
Jones said he approached the
sheriff when he learned of the
chance to buy the Smith Auto-
matic Gas Co. He said Reld intro-
duced him to Smith, who agreed
to lend them the money at jl per
cent, payable tn one year.
Jones said he later sold his In-
terest to Reid,
Sheriff O. B. Carter of Cameron
Parish, which borders on Calca-
sieu, testified that gamblers had
asked him to use his friendship
with Reld to get Calcasieu gam-
bllng re-sta
to ge
rted.
Tax Bills With Built-in Stretchers Next in Line
The proposal Is to be put before designed to close $7.7 mllHon In
I-L-0 governing body's ses- present tax loop holes. It will be
on the House calendar Monday.
the
sion Tuesday.
Proteus Receives Welcome
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After Running Blockade
HOLY LOCH, Scotland (AP)—;ihip. is already en route from
The U. S. Navy tender Proteus America. Prime Minister Harold
ran a comic blockade by a paci-: Macmillan told Commons Thurs-
fist canoe armada today and | day. '*
moored safely at this new missile' British newspapers predicted
submarine base." - the Patrick Henry would arrive
Thousands of spectators lined' here over the weekend as demon-
the loch as the 18,500-ton tender strators poured into Holy Loch,
for nuclear missile submarines; The lively welcome for the Pro-
was towed to her .anchorage by teus and her crew of 950 had been
three tugs.
While this was going on, Brit&h
naval and police launches darted
around the big River Clyde basin
chasing .' the pacifist canoes.
In the end, all six of the block-
ading canoes were swamped and
the occupants arrested.
t The pacifists don't like the idea
of a missile base here.
The Patrick Henry, first of the
U.S. Navy nuclear subs for which
the Proteus will act as mother
well-advertised in advance by the
pacifists.
Fir* of the Proteus crew
ashore was photographer Eugene
Meece of Dayton, Ohio.
iVee;e, 32, was happy to find
Soots rushing up to shake his hand
(See PROTEUS, Page 11)
On Its face the bfl! proposes to
gather about $3 million by chang-
ing the bookkeeping system for
state cigarette taxes without ac-
tually increasing the tax; to raise
$>U million by reinstating a 3 per
cent excise tax on additional
parts of home air conditioners,
and almost another million by
changes In current taxes on coin
operated machines.
However, the House committee
Thursday changed the wording of
the bill's caption, which purports
to tell briefly what is In a legisla-
tive proposal.
Committee Chairman Charles
Ballman, Borger, said the com-
mittee had been assured by the
House parliamentarian that the
new caption "Is broad enough for
this bill to be amended on the
floor to Include sales taxes or even
a general sales tax."
The committee then voted a
special Invitation to Rep. John Al
len, Longvlew, author of the pnlv
introduced general aales tax bill,
and Rep. Jack Conell, Wichita
Falls, author of a $50 deductible
"luxury" tax bill, to bring their
measure out for public hearings
The House Labor Committee
beard and referred to subcommlt
tee a bill (HB44) by Rep. Ted
Springer of Amarllk) to standard-
ize wage rates on public projects
In different areas of the state.
Springer's bill would empower
Two Airmen Captured by Soviet Union
Will Tell Their Dramatic Story Today
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP)—Two Air have been shielded by the Air
Force captains today will have Force from nawsmen since their
their first chance to give the
public a dramatic story.
On July 1, 1900, Soviet fighter
shot
planes
jet re©
Bering
months. The other three are
missing. '
Capts. Freeman B; Olmstead
^nd John R. McKone, released
from a Soviet prison Jan. 23,
an American
reconnaiSance plane over the
ering Sea.
Thus far, the public knows only
these few facts:
Six men were aboard the
downed plane. The Soviets sent
one body back to America. Two
were imprisoned nearly seven The Air Force has said only
return.
Today they will be (| xtinii^
by reporters tor the first time.
The two captains have much to
tell: How their Jet plane was shot
down. How they were plucked
from the icy sea. Where they
were Imprisoned. How they were
Questioned, and how they spent
tne long months away from their
families.
that the plane was mapping mag-
netic fields; was not over Soviet
territory, and that Olmstead and
McKone don't knpw what -hap-
pened to the mias|ng crewmen.
Meet the Newcomers
TOM
MARY
DICK
$
Their dad, John, has Just been transferred to new Job en Chemi-
cal Raw. He and their mother,'Sally, are vary Interested In the
Idad ef aa education available to the children here. This family
la Ike "cast" for aa interesting and potentially very useful report
•y the Texas Research League an Orange County schools. You
wfl meet them, starting Monday, la « series ef articles through
which the complete text of this report will be published in
The Orange Leader
the State Labor Commissioner to
divide the state up Into Wage are-
as with similar economic charac-
teristics and to determine the
prevailing wages for construction
work in those sections.
A bill aimed at protecting grow-
ers and migrant farto workers
from abuses by unscrupulous
crew leaders also was heard by
(See LEGISLATURE, Page 11)
the treaty to police the test ban.
But authorities here said that
major concessions by the Soviets
on their present insistence on
minimum inspection will be nec-
essary to meet the Britlsh-Amer*
Soviet government la seriously in-
terested ln making a test ban.
agreement President Kennedy
has toldXofflclals. and reportedly
assured the British, that he Is de-
termined to aet an agreement if
the Soviets <M11 accept reasonable
Inspection safeguards against
cheating. n.
The next round of negotiations
between the United States, Brit-
ain and the Soviet Union, will
start in Geneva March Jl. If with-
in two months the talks prove
fruitless, Kennedy wiU\be under
very heavy pressure froih the De-
fense Department and the\
Energy Commission, autftoritis
said, to order resumption of nu-
clear test explosions.
„ Tests were halted 2$$ years a^o
when the , Geneva negotiations,
opened The moratorium now hi
effect has no Inspection provi-
sions.
British experts headed by Min-
ister of State Davis Ormsby-Goro
have been conferring here for a
week with U. S. experts headed
by Kennedy's top disarmament
adviser, John J McCloy. Thar
are now In the final stage of the
present series of talks, though
other consultations are expected
before the Geneva negotiations re-
sume.
McCloy Is directing a thorough-
going review of all U. S. disar-
mament policies followed during
the Elsenhower administration.
With respect to the nuclear weap-
ons tests problem, It is under*
stood that ne and Kennedy hava
decided in the main to follow the
broad policy lines worked out
since 19M.
These policies cover both tha
nature or the test ban and tha
kind of elaborate inspection sys-
tem which would be set up In all
participating countries to make
sure mat none of them pulled off
anv sneak tests.
inspection problems present tha
critical Issues In the forthcoming
negotiations and lead Into the
question whether any system of
safeguards would be satisfactory
to the West unless It covered Red
China, as well as the Soviet Un-
ion.
Fumble Is Feared
Algerian Peace Feelers Move
Underground, Talk in Secret
PARIS (AP) — Algerian peace
feelers moved underground to-
day. Emissaries from the French
government and the Algerian reb-
el high command are believed
meeting In secret.
Both sides" Were moving cau-
tiously after the rebels' accept-
ance of French President Charles
de Gaulle's offer to negotiate an
end to their 654-year war for in-
dependence from France. Neither
wants a fumble to endanger
chances of success.
Algerian rebel officials in Tu-
nis—site of their government-in-
exlle—said only ''technical de-
tails" remain to be cleared up for
open negotiations.
Louis Joxe, France's minister
for Algerian affairs, jhas dropped
from view, giving substance to re-
ports of behind-the-scenes activ-
ity. The procedural Questions in-
volved are so delicate that both
sides apparently feal that un-
tangling them Is a J0b| best shield-
ed from tha
The rebels
the French will make a new good
will gesture as a show of jood
faith. They said they have strong
indications the gesture will be the
transfer of a top rebel leader
from a French Jail to a guarded
residence near Paris where he
would be available for political
consultations.
The leader is Mohammed Ben
Bella, captured by the French In
1956. He holds tremendous pres-
tige among the Nationalists and
before his capture was known as
a moderate. The rebels named
him honorary deputy premier tn
their cabinet, formed after his
captura, -
from tha public.
in Tunis'expect that
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Both sides are still hampered
by their own extremists—Algeri-
ans seeking revenge after years
of war and repression, and
Frenchmen demanding that Alge-
ria remain under French control
forever to protect the Interests of
one million Europeans in Algeria 1
against nine million Moslems.
The Europeans know that the Al-
gerian elections proposed by De
Gaulle after i cease-fire would
almost cfertalnly* bring a major-
ity vote for independence.
In Oran Thursday night, more
than 2,000 Europeans clashed with
Moslems. The violence in the big
Algerian seaport on the Mediter-
ranean was touched off by the
torch deaths of two French wom-
en at the hands at a Moslem mob
Tuesday.
Moslems Vere roughed up and
eight persons were reported In-
jured, one seriously. Four vehi-
cles were overturned snd set afire
In retaliation for the deaths of
the women, who had been trapped „
in a burping car by the Moslems.
ORANGE JUICE I
IN RUT—Is word from Judga
Malcolm Dorman of Orange Cor-
poration Court earlier this week.
He seemed to be confronted with
garbage "everywhere he turned.
A series of oases were presentd
on violations of the municipal
garbage ordinance.
YOUR THUMB READY?OJ has
reference , to the "green thumb*
variety. March is now here and
it's time to plant those pooies.
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