The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 119, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 1956 Page: 3 of 6
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Ntwinotion Fogtdrown Concluaion
GOP Almost Certain
Of Ike-Nixon ticket
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Exultant Republicans were virt-
ually certain today of an Eisen-
hower-Nixon ticket again this year.
H the Democrats were worried
•bout battling the same combina-
tion that beat them in MSB, they
weren't showing it.
Vice President N i x o n’s an-
WMncement yesterday that be will
seek re-eleption ended any slight
doubt as to his intentions. Presi-
dent Eisenhower said he was "de-
lighted” at Nixon’s decision.
Thus — unless Eisenhower’s
health should falter—renomination
of the GOP’s 1952 team at the
party’s August convention in San
Francisco appears to be a fore-
gone conclusion.
House Republican Leader Mar-
tin of Massachusetts predicted the
Eisenhower-Nixon ticket would be
renominated "by acclamation.”
Senate Republican Leader Know-
land of California said Nixon’s an-
nouncement "clarifies the political
•v atmosphere.” #
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Republicans-
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letter bearing the names of all
candidates nominated, asking that
their names be withdrawn from
the GOP ticket.
Blair told the group he had talk-
ed to one of the candidates who
had withdrawn his name two years
ago. He said the candidate told
him he "just practically had to
sign” the letter withdrawing his
name.
Eddie Paxton, of Mann-Paxton
Insurance Agency, urged that the
group work for a strong turnout
with enough votes in the nominat-
ing convention to make candidates
reluctant to withdraw their names.
Blair also discussed the prob-
lems faced by the Republican par-
ty in Texas.
He pointed out that the Texas
legislature has always been Demo-
cratic. He said that all laws in
Texas were made by the “Demo-
crat” Party “to exclude other par-
ties” and that the laws were such
as "to keep them (other parties)
in the minority.”
The statement was made in ref-
erence to the party pledge, requir-
ed by state law on both Republi-
can and Democratic ballots.
He pointed out, however, that no
party pledge would be required at
the precinct conventions.
Blair told members of the group
jt. he became a Republican aft-
er he found that "the only way
that I could effect the type of gov-
ernment I wanted was to get into
the Republican party.
He said he found as an indepen-
dent, he was “out there all by my-
self.”
He said he didn't agree with all
the things the Republican party
stands for, but that it more nearly
fits his beliefs than the “Demo-
crat” party.
He said the Republican party
basically favors low taxes and as
little government control as pos-
sible.
The Young Republicans made
tentative plans for future meet-
ings with outstanding Republicans
as speakers.
GOP National Chairman Leon-
ard W. Hall said Nixon has been
"a great vice president.” He pre-
dicted Eisenhower and Nixon—run-
ning on what he termed "a splen-
did record of performance”—
would lead the Republican party to
“an even greater victory” than in
1962.
Neither Adlai Stevenson nor Sen.
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, both
active candidates for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination,
seemed ruffled by the news that
Nixon had made up his mind to
run again.
Stevenson, the Democrats’ un-
successful standard bearer in 1952,
said in Miami, Fla.: “I do not
greet this news with any misery
whatever.”
Kefauver told newsmen in Pitts
burgh an Eisenhower-Nixon ticket
“is as strong as the Republicans
could put up.” But, Kefauver add-
ed, “I feel certain the Democrats
will win in November.”
From all indications, Nixon will
do much of the Republican ball-
carrying in the coming political
campaign. Some of the things he
has said of them in the past
aroused considerable resentment
among Democrats.
Zeroing in on the vice president,
Democratic National Chairman
Paul M. Butler said he feels sure
“an overwhelming majority of
American voters of both parties
believe that Mr. Nixon is not the
type of person to be in a position
from which he may succeed to the
presidency. . .
Speaking at several places in
the Miami area, Stevenson said
yesterday “a new fighting liberal
administration” is needed in Wash-
ington. He also promised, if elect-
ed president, to do all he can to
improve the lot of the nation's old-
er citizens.
In Pittsburgh for two speeches,
Kefauver attacked the Eisenhower
administration's handling of for-
eign affairs, saying Russia's lead-
ers have captured the initiative.
He also said that under GOP con-
trol of the government “little has
been done to help small business
and stop a trend toward mergers.”
Band Festival
; Jury May Gat Co** Lata Today
THE LEVELLANP DAILY MJN NEWS, LeveOaad, Texas, Friday, April *1, IMS
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m. Muleahoe High; 5 p.m. Olton
High; 5:30 p.m., Post High; 6 p.m.,
Lockney.
Orchestra Schedule
Claes AAAA
2:30 p.m. Tom S. Lubbock.
Class OC
3 p.m., Hutchinson Junior High,
(Lubbock); 3:30 p.m. Matthews
Junior High (Lubbock) 4 p.m. Sla-
ton Junior High (Lubbock) 4:30 p.
m. Thompson Junior High (Lub-
bock).
8tudent Conducting
Judge • Jerry Newman
Student conducting will be held
immediately followihg sight read-
ing in the high school library (room
221). Competing will be:
John Hill, Brownfield; Charles
Higdon, Brownfield; Don Peel,
Hutchinson Jr. High; Alan Cate,
Hutchinson Jr. High; Ann Dupre,
Levelland; Jerry Cox, Levelland;
Troy Felber, Monterey High; Har-
lon Lamkin, Monterey; Tommy
Evins, Littlefield; Palmer McCown
Littlefield; Doyle Gammill, Lub-
bock; Ronald Lemon, Tom S. Lub-
bock.
Festival Judges
Judges for the contests will in-
clude :
Bands (Concert) James Neilson,
Oklahoma City University; Mau-
rice McAdoo, North Texas College;
Floren Thompson, Eastern New
Mexico.
Sight - reading: Jerry Newman,
West Texas State College.
Solo and Ensemble (Band): Rob-
ert Maddox, Odessa; Gene Smith,
Odessa; J. R. McEntyre, Odessa;
Bill Dean, Odessa; G. T. Gilligan,
Kermit.
Twirling: George Cates, Richard
son; William Postlew
Twirling: George Gates, Richard
son; William Postlethwaite, Mid-
land.
Orchestra and Strings: George
Robinson, Abilene; Alan Richard-
son, North Texas State College;
Charles Emmons, Amarillo; Albert
Gillis, University of Texas.
HcLarfy Denies He Knew of Some
Of,Clauses in Yet Land Document
A DAY in the SUN
(Continued From Page One)
try has been found »inre the
puzzle has been runnig. But
that doesn't mean we won't
find one at any time.
oOo
Starting Sunday, the Levelland
Daily Sun News will publish a
brief, new column which we think
readers will find interesting.
It usually consists of only three
paragraphs each day, but they’ll
be paragraphs you won't want to
: miss. Look for the first one on
the front page of Sunday's paper.
It’s called “Crossroads Report,”
and it is written by D. E. Scott.
Houston Detective
Is Released on Bond
GALVESTON H. F. Golden.
Houston detective, was released
on $5,000 bond yesterday under
charges of shooting his officer
partner.
Detective Dwight O. Fields was
shot to death Wednesday on a
Galveston street as the climax of
an argument.
t v, Golden waived preliminary
hearing. Police Chief Willie Burns
,. Mid the case will go to the grand
jury “within several weeks.”
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Kashword Puzzle -
(Continued from Page One)
braces more than does CAR. BAR
is not as good.
23. PEG best suits the clue. May-
be a PEG will be useful, but not
necessarily. They may have other
means of hanging things up. How-
ever, a PEN is definitely useful.
There is no "may be” about it.
The same can be said of PEP.
24. Certainly mediocre POEMS
would hardly be long remembered.
Mediocre POETS might possibly
be remembered for some other ac-
complishment other than their abil-
ity as POETS.
CLUES DOWN:
1. What you BID would be mere-
ly one of the things you DID. DID
is thus more comprehensive and
therefore is a sounder answer.
2. A LET in any tennis game,
since it involves neither an ad-
vantage nor a penalty will prob-
ably make little difference to the
match. One SET, however, can be
very important of course.
6. ROWING best answers the
clue. ROWING is known to devel-
op almost every muscle in the body
whereas ROVING about might de-
velop very little other than the leg
muscles. At that, the man might
be ROVING about in a car or on
horseback.
10. The clue implies that there
are not many — just "sometimes.”
This applies to CABLE. Surely ev-
ery FABLE is read over and over
again by various people. TABLE
is not favored.
14. If you're going to do a "fan-
cy” job properly in carpentry you
definitely must have a PLANE.
The phrase “may come in useful”
is, therefore, more apt to some odd
PLANK.
15. An old-fashioned TOWN al-
ways has a certain charm, of
course. There is no knowing what
condition an old-fashioned GOWN
may be in!
18. If he's LAME, he, of course,
won't be chosen to play; there-
fore, "may be found," as the clue
says, is wrong; he would have to
be found. A substitute may well
have to be found for a man who
has been chosen but is LATE ar-
riving at the ground.
21. The clue is so worded that
RIP is the only possible answer
Plainview Defeats
Canadian Proposal
For Second Time
PLAINVIEW, Tex. Wl-For the
second time in less than two
months, Plainview voters yester$
day turned down participation in
the Canadian River Municipal Wa-
ter Authority.
The vote was 1,868 against and
623 for. The second vote was or-
dered after a petition by a group
of citizens.
Plainview was the only city in
the nine Panhandle and South
Plains cities making up the au-
thority to vote down the water
contract.
The other eight cities are plan-
ning to go ahead with construction
of the 72 million dollar dam proj-
ect. They are Lubbock, Borger,
Slaton, Tahoka, O'Donnell, Lame-
sa. Brownfield and Levelland.
Amarillo and Pampa were origi-
nally in the authority but with-
drew.
with a rip saw. You cannot RAP
a door. You RAP on a door.
The partition of India is 1947
caused the greatest mass migra-
tion in the world's history, says
the United Nations.
Big .Lake Man Freed
Of Murder Charges
BALLINGER. Tex. IIR—Herman
Eugene Smith was found innocent
of a charge of murder yesterday
by a 119th District Court jury that
deliberated one hour and 45 min-
utes—including time spent at sup-
per.
The four-day trial went to the
jury at 7 p.m. and jurors reported
back at 8:45 p.m. Joe Ofreman.
Ballinger bank cashier, was fore-
man of the jury. He said one bal-
lot was required.
Smith, 31, of Big Lake, was
tried on charges that arose out
of the drowning death of O. Carl
Murray, Ballinger oil field equip-
ment dealer on July 24, 1955.
Mrs. Sarah Lou Murray, the
dead man’s wife, also was indict-
ed on the murder charge.
Anti-Parr Factions
Agree on Candidates
SAN DIEGO, Tex. IS)—Two Du-
val County factions opposing
George B. Parr, longtime South
Texas political leader, have
agreed upon a single slate of can-
didates to be entered in opposition
to Parr's Old Party.
The factions—the Freedom Par-
ty and an anti-Parr group headed
by County Judge Dan Tobin—an-
nounced the agreement yesterday.
The candidates agreed upon by
the groups include J. P. Stock-
well, present sheriff of the county:
E. B. Garcia, tax collector-assess-
or; Amador Caballero, county
You might RIP a door of course, ^elerk; C. K. Gravis Jr., county
Democratic chairman; Robert
Leo. county school superintendent;
Walter P. Purcell, county attor-
ney, Thomas Molina, commission-
er for Precinct One; and Maximo
Martinez, commissioner for Pre-
cinct Two.
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Formerly of Hemphill Wells in Lubbock
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By ED OVERHOLSER
JOURDANTON, Tex. (JB-T. J.
McLarty denied yesterday that he
knew of some of the clauses In
papers he had a Negro GI sign
in a block land deal.
He is charged with misrepre-
senting a written instrument to
Warner J. Scott of Cuero in get-
ting the GI to sign an application
to buy land under the veterans
land program.
Scott has testified he thought he
was assigning his rights under the
program to McLarty for $50.
The jury may get the case late
today.
McLarty’s trial in 81st District
Court is the result of the state’s
sweeping investigation of the GI
land program which has shocked
the state and brought hundreds
of indictments on felony charges.
The investigation also has sent ex-
Land Commissioner Bascom Giles
to prisAn on a six year sentence.
McLarty took the witness stand
yesterday to defend himself. He
testified he and Scott had made
an arrangement whereby Scott
signed his name to an application
for state aid in buying land and
that McLarty would assume re-
sponsibility of making the pay-
ments.
Under close cross-examination by
Dist. Atty. John May last night,
McLarty said he had not read
Scott’s application to the land
board.
He also said he had Scott sign
.the application containing provi-
sions wherein Scott swore he was
buying the land for himself and
for no one else and that Scott, as
the purchaser, could not sell it to
anyone for three years.
McLarty admitted that the same
day he had Scott sign the applica-
tion he also got the veteran to
sign a paper transferring the land
to a San Antonio man, W. T.
Brady.
“You knew the statements were
in the contract you had Scott sign
for $50?” asked May.
“I didn’t read the paper,” re-
plied McLarty, who resided in
Cuero before moving to Denver,
Cok>., in 1954.
Scott testified earlier that Mc-
Larty offered him $50 to turn over
his rights to buy land. He denied
he knew that the papers he had
signed were an application to the
Land Board seeking state assist-
ance in buying property in the
giant land program.
Questioned earlier by defense
attorney Elbert Jundt of Seguin,
McLarty described how he was
approached by a San Antonio real
estate firm as a possible buyer of
a tract of 5,789 acres of land.
He told how he considered the
offer for several months and later
decided to buy it from Henry C.
Koontz of Victoria County for
$152,234. McLarty said he sold
part of it to the state for $177,510
and later sold 1,900 acres to a
Corpus Christ! man, whom he did
not name, for $31,000.
The state’s purchase of the
$177,510 tract was subdivided and
sold to 24 veteran purchasers, in-
cluding Scott, whose tract was for
139 acres and cost $6,970.
■McLarty, under cross-examina-
tion, said he "supposed” Brady
would make the payment and he
would not have further liability in
Scott’s tract if the veteran were
called on to make the payments.
Great Books Group
Hosted by Rector
A discussion of Rousseau’s work
on Origin and Inequality and his
discourse on Political Economy
was led by Rev. Rex Simms at
the rector of St. Michael's Catholic
Church at 8 p.m. Thursday. Rev.
McLellan was host to the group.
Refreshments were enjoyed at
the conclusion of the discussion.
Attending the meeting were Rev.
and Mrs. Simms, Mrs. Ben Boyd,
Mrs. James Lattimore, Miss Jean
Reichenstein, Mrs. J. W. Rainey
and the host.
Of the larger whales, only the
sperm whale has teeth in the adult
form.
State Submits
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Deposition In
Sainburg Trial
ITHACA, N.Y. IM—The prosecu-
tion at the kidnap trial of Dr.
Frank P. Sainburg has introduced
a Texas court deposition in which
the physician told of taking the
boy from Ithaca.
Dist. Atty. Frederick Bryant
read the deposition during the
fourth day of the 36-year-old doc-
tor’s trial.
In it, Dr. Sainburg told of com-
ing to the apartment of his former
wife, Miss Doris Blanchard, on
Jan. 19, 1954. The doctor said the
boy Philip, now five, had come
to the door, and that no one had
touched the mother.
Miss Blanchard, who resumed
her maiden name after the mar-
riage was annulled, testified yes-
terday that Dr. Sainburg took
their son away with the help of
two other men.
She identified them as George
Varris, 38, of New York City, and
Murray Morton, 32, of Hollywood,
Fla.
All three are charged with kid-
naping, second-degree assault and
third-degree burglary in connec-
tion with the disappearance of the
child.
Miss Blanchard testified yester-
day that Varris forced his way
into her apartment on that Jan.
19, knocking her into a chair with
the door. Then, she said, Dr. Sain-
burg and Morton came in.
“Varris struck me again with
such force that I tripped over a
chair and fell,” she said. She tes-
tified the men were gone with the
child when she got up.
Under cross-examination by Dr.
Sain burg’s attorney, Harry Travis
of Binghamton, Miss Blanchard
was asked:
“Don’t you know that, as a mat-
ter of fact, Philip ran out and
jumped into his father’s arms?”
She replied: “No.”
The doctor also is charged with
kidnaping in connection with the
disappearance of the boy from
an Ithaca nursery school Nov. 14,
1955.
Robbery.Charges Filed Against
Sports Writer, Boxing Promoter
HOUSTON (J)—Otarges of rob-noon a telephone call from a man
who refused to give his name
Cook said the man told him he
was calling to give a tip on the
biggest story in years, an unre-
ported robbery of from $100,000 to
$200,000 in Houston.
“I got to thinking of the head-
lines there would be,” Cook said.
“I got to thinking what this could
mean if It was true. If I could go
over to Houston and clean up the
case and bring the man and the
money back to San Antonio and
dump it all in the lap of the chief
of police, I would be famous. I
know it's fantastic.”
He said he asked his informant
why be had not reported his in-
formation to police and that the
man replied "I don’t like cops.”
The sports writer said the in-
formant supplied the name of a
Houston man and the license
number of the man’s automobile.
Police quoted Hamlett as say-
ing two men knocked on his door,
woke him up and told him they
were police officers. He said one
man had a pistol, the other a
badge of some kind.
“All right, where’s it hidden?”
Hamlett said one of the men
asked. “You know damned well
what I’m talking about.”
. Hamlett said the men searched
the apartment thoroughly and
took his $800, that one of the men
said, "Come on, we’re going to the
station.”
Hamlett said he and the two
men got in his own automobile
and the men demanded he tell
them where Hicks resided.
Hamlett said he took them to
Hicks’ apartment and that the two
men took $1,200 and that Hicks
said there was about $1,000 in the
glove compartment of his car.
Hicks said they taped his hands
together and told him they were
going to take him out in the coun-
try and make him tell where he
HOLY CROSS, Ky. tf) — This kept a tin box that was supposed
little community is about, to get to hold the rest of the money,
telephone service with the outside When the four men left the
world after a 15-year interruption, apartment, Hicks broke away and
Long-distance phoning was ended ran off, yelling for help. Hamlett
when the operator quit. Now a new said he also ran. They went to a
company is hiring a new operator. | neighbor and called police.
bery were filed against a San An-
tonio sports writer and a boxing
promoter yesterday in connection
with holdups of a Houston auto-
mobile dealer and his employe of
$3,055.
The sports writer is 29-year-old
Dan Cook, former Houston and
Beaumont resident. The promoter
is James B. Parks, 33.
Bond of $10,000 was posted for
Cook, but O’Brien Stevens, former
district attorney who posted the
bond agreed that the actual re-
lease could wait until two pistols
are located by police. Parks had
not made bond late last night.
Jimmy Hicks, 32, an automobile
dealer, yesterday reported to po-
lice he had been beaten and rob-
bed of about $2,200. An employe
of Hicks, Edwin Roy Hamlett, 34,
reported that he was beaten and
robbed of $800.
Jack Heard, Houston chief of
police, said Cook, whom he had
known when the latter was a
Houston resident, called him and
asked for an appointment yester-
day. He said that both Cook f)pd
Parks were waiting at his office
when he arrived and that Cook
turned over $3,055 to him.
Cook, who talked freely to po-
lice and reporters, insisted that
his intention had been to solve a
$200,000 robbery and to write a
big story about it.
Cook said he received at his
San Antonio home Tuesday after-
The physician and the boy turn-
ed up in Texas, where Miss Blan-
chard was awarded custody of the
boy.
'She told the court yesterday that
Philip no longer was in Ithaca
and that Dr. Sainburg had not
seen the boy since December. She
did not say where Philip was.
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