The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 90, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 20, 1959 Page: 1 of 6
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The V/eather
Twnpfntmrt. nad.iif* for th«> past |4-
hmmr period ending n noon today :
Maximum «a
Minimum 4#
Noon rending #5
^rrpIpItgllM for >***r tr.
fORIti'AMT: Snow Mnrulng Panhandle
and upper South Plains. Hnou beromlng
h«*avy this afternoon. Ural blizzard rondl
(Ions tonight. Nnvtv aerumulatlng to nU
larnes or more iu Panhandle and upper
Nouth Plaius b> early Wednesday with
temperatures falling to 5 to 13 degrees.
— Levelland Daily Sun News
VOLUME XVIl# NUMBER 90
PRICE: Daily 5c Sunday 10c
WITHOUT °R WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES” — Byron
_LEVELLAND, TEXAS (AP) The Associated Press
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20,1959
Blizzard takes aim on Panhandle, Plains
A Day
In The
SUN
BY ORt.iN BREWER
j^evelland, seldom affected by
■gasoline price wars, has seen lo-1
cal gasoline prices drop lately, pos- j
sibly as a result of the price I
squeeze in Lubbock.
Prices have dropped at some [
stations as low as 22.9 cents for i
regular and 2a.9 for Lthyl on stan- {
dard brands. These constitute the;
best gasoline price bargains in I
years for Levelland residents.
Also drivers in Lubbock, al I
though the station operators may . ft sn^s orm stiuck the Pan-
not be enjoying the t ide, are roll- i hi . *1 .ues <u morning and
ing their gas-drinkers along with g ^ in some! sections quickly
17.9 and 19.9 cent per gallon gas- " , /U- 1 hgnway Depart-
oiine, approximately haif the cost VJSC< mo ot’*s s 1° precede
with caution m the Panhandle.
OATH OF OFFICE ADMINISTERED IN SOLEMN INAUGURAL CEREMONIES
Daniel promises smaller tax bill than
Snowstorm hits
1
upperTexasas
warning issued
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS J iel started his second term today j cost.”
The Weather Bureau predicted promising that his new tax bill j The 1955 tax measure
l uesdav a snowstorm with would be smaller than the last | tioned by Daniel provided
blizzard conditions" for the Tex- one passed in 1955. about 5u" million dollars a
as Panhandle and “severe thun-J Lt. Gov. Ben Ramsey began his for the
derstorms for North Central and I unprecedented fifth term saying
Northeast Texas. [ that any new demands for spoori-
ng should be backed by specific
A ?eir aflv°- j inaugural address how he pro-) Daniel. 48. said he would put the | After retiring the current defh it
At.si IN ,(APi Gov. Price Dan- cates hearing a fair share ot the I poses to solve this fiscal riddle “ "
area
past
He promised he would tomorrow retiring the
“emergency” tag on his plan fori Daniel said, he would prop'
Ramsey also emphasized money
matters.
, , . , , current derieit which I "means for providing new rove-! “The hard cold facts of the ba>-
mr’:|,n « message to the Legislature. | has been estimated al 65 million nues for the next biennium with ance sheet must be reco"nized ”
o: ^ governor so.emnly took the | dollars as of next Sept. 1. The an annual tax bill smaller than Ramsey said. “The sole question
veil j oath of office in a ceremonial un- need for new revenue has been var I the last one enacted in 1955." ,,f this session is not or should
.. . .. genc,al revenue funri- der the massive south portico ollously figured at from 167 to 20U | Daniel has repeatedly promised not be the question of which un-
; an |C ih«lH re'P,nSPi nave j RTF Capitol, striking a clear note j million dollars for the next two that his tax plans did not include fortunate taxpayer we are "oir-r
risen and the deficit has soated. j of optimism in the fat e of the ] fiscal years roughly 85 to 100 mil-1 either a general sales tax or state to =
Daniel did not explain in his or*ef state money crisis. lion new dollars a year. | income tax.
catch and string up by the
(GOV. DANIEL — Page 5)
of the same precious liquid in the
A situation suth as this can't
wesern and mountain states,
last forever. However, and Eisen-
hower’s call fur a three to four
The Weather Bureau expected a
fall of up to six inches by early
early Wednesday.
The ground was becoming white
as the snowfall increased in the
cent increase in gaso'ine taxes j Dumas and Perrvton areas There
hangs a cloud of gloom over the j was much fog in the Panhandle.
joy a man gets out of driving up
to the pumps and singing out
“Fill "er up."
t>0o
Results of one of the Plains
slower reporting elections —
the High Plains Underground
Water District’s committeeman
vote — are in.
Unopposed committeemen in
Ilockley County were elected,
as anticipated. J. W. Cooke
received 10 votes in Ropes-
vilte and two votes in Level-
land for a total of 12 and elec-
tion as committeeman from
County Commissioner’s Pre-
cinct No. 1.
Earl G. Miller got 12 votes
in Sundown and 5 in Level-
land for a total of 17 for a
victory in Precinct 2.
Elmer Blankenship of Wilson
John Gammon of Lazbuddle
___WML T*. 4s. Jr, m
Hereford were elected to the
district water board.
Nobody takes time to vote
in these elections, apparently
because there are no crucial
issues involved. There may
come a time, however, when
water is scarcer, that these
elections will be among the
most hotly contested any-
where.
Visibility was cut to near zero at
Am-.rillo.
The mid-morning temperature
at Perryton was 25 degrees and
26 at Dumas. Readings of 5--to
15 degrees were predicted by
j earlyy Wednesday.
Shortly before noon the weather
bureau issued a severe thunder-
I "form alert for a w ide area of
j Oklahoma and northern Texas.
The advisory forecast some hail
) and high winds on either side of
j a line "Trom 20 miles south of
j Wichita Falls to 60 miles, north-
vvest of Texarkana.
Cities in the alert area include
I Wichita Falls. Sherrhan, Denison,
Gainesville, Paris and Texarkana..
The alert is from 3 p.m. to
9 p.m.
It read:
“Thunderstorms are expected to
develop across North Central Tex-
aft and Southern Oklahoma by
mid-afternoon and move eastward
this evening with some thunder-
storms becoming severe.”
The bureau in an earlier special
warning had predicted snow up to
six inches or more in the Pan-
handle and supper South Plains by
the Panhandle by Wednesday
The bureau described the ap-
pro,a. hing storm as having “bliz-
zard conditions.” The warning
said temperatures will fall to 5
PRESENTED HON ORARYDEGREES
t
FHA administrator Horace Gilmore and
banker Claud Tipton were made honorsry
Future Farmers at Monday night’s dis-
trict FFA banquet at Smyer. District Sec-
RECEIVES SWEETHEART TROPHY
rotary Bobby Birdsong of Levelland in-
troduces the two Levelland men prior to
the presentation.
(Staff Photos)
Peggy Wiley of Levelland, last year’s
Levelland District FFA sweetheart,
presents trophy to the new district
NEWS IN BRIEF:
o0o
. The Hockley County Farmers, to 15 degrees.
Union has named E. C. Siefert j .
as delegate for the organization’s! Freezing drizzle moved into the
annual bus trip to Washington to | UPP01 Panhandle early Tuesday,
appear before U. S. agricultural Highways in the Dumas area were
committees, But is setting up a ' becoming coaled with poUdery
new Friday meeting to name a new I sn°w and ice. Fog cut visibility
insurance agent. to_a Quarter of a mile at Dalhart.
The 200 member, county organ- 'bp storm is part of a low pres-
ization was expected to select a ! s,,re area in eastern New Mexico
Grave choice facing nation
on economic front, Ike warns
CROSSROADS
REPORT
District President Bobby Neal of White-
face looks on. Miss ffumble won out over
contestants from Hockley and Cochran
Counties.
WASHINGTON (,T»
President , and northwest Missouri.
dieted for that area. The front was
expected to extend nearly to Waco
bv earlv Wednesday
some areas as the cold front
proa< lies.
Small craft warnings were or-
dered up along” the Gulf coast
from Brownsville to St. Marks,
Fla. The advisory said southerly as^e<l
ALTHOUGH FIGHTING A I5AII
atta-k of the grippe, Fidel Castro;
successor to J. O. Garrett last! ^at vvas moving eastward into the Eisenhovjer said today the nation j Conditions are expected to he-! have a new tax this year
week, but failed to do so. 1 Tex’,s Panhandle r,., .......- ,.i—-m---- -,r 1------ 1--------J— ---------- * 1
W. R. (Bill i Methvin w ill an-
nounce the time and place of Fri-
day’s meeting at a later date.
oOo
It always brings back fond
memories to attend a Future
Farmer banquet such as tlie
district banquet and queen’s
contest in Smyer .Monday
night.
It's doubtful if any oilier
organization is as thorough in
training young men in the de-
mocratic procedures of con-
ducting public meetings as
the FFA movement.
Whether the youngster re-
ceiving the training becomes a
farmer, or decides instead to
become a newspaperman, gro-
cer, county judge, chamber
manager or congressman, the
benefits of FFA work go with
him.
oOo
If every person involved in com
(night that Texans definitely will j
Tovis Panhandle t v --- --—„ -— --------1 -----;------- — —*-—.........- i have a new tax this year. One)
ii.v s r annanmo. faces a (grave choice either self- come hazardous over most of that' . , . ,
The cold front was expected to discipline' to prevent a damaging area today and tonight and parti- saul an cx,ra soss,on ,,f-,ne
( oach the Dallas-Fort Worth area inflation, or government controls; cularly Hazardous over the central I ,a,ure wl11 be needoi to pass it.
aftoi midnight Tuesday. Temper- "which are alien to our tradition- 1 High Plains where a blizzard is! Sen. William S. Flv of Victoria *
atures jn the m.ddle_20s was pre-;a] way of life.” J forecast. ' I and Rep. Frates Seeiigson of San!
Eisenhower sent to Congress his In a special bulletin the bureau i Antonio said they didn't know whe-!
Economic report, third and last of1 added: Lh ■ t, ... , . _
• (he major annual messages It a’i- Glaze warnings have also been j <IU< bc pass“ j
!n no,meed a virtually fuif recovery j issued for a band of freezing rain cd du™« ,he «^ula'- scssl0d’
from the recession, forecast rec-|and sleet soutli of th.e snow area,
onl income and production in 1959,!
and held out hopes of tax rcduc- TKIVAL DISCREPANCIES AND , . . . , , , ,
legal technicalities have cause I too 1 d,.,ggrdl> held today to plans for a
51 laws to help
winds would become 25 to 55 mde's j ZTssteZ-^T'vos Study Commission reported vote-
; per-hour during Tuesday afternoon ' 1jUI ,lle message cleatly .vas, J *
and then shift to the north Wednes- mo inl as an ala!'m bell to rally aa>;
day. labor, business and consumers to The commission recommended
Low temperatures early Tucs- uni,p with the government in de- revisions in criminal proceedings
; dav ranged from 26 degrees J(t ' fending the value of the dollar. in a lengthy report to top e.xecu-
Dalhart to 66 at Corpus" Christi. ; ive department heads and the
Big snow flakes began falling; TIIE WEATHER BUREAU is- \ Legislature,
during the morning at Perryton. sued heavy snow warnings today I
:‘covering the ground. The tempera- for a wide area across the Central j COLORFl L INAI (•( KAI.
ture at midmorning was down to Plains from northeast New Mexico, i Paradc tolled up Congress Ave. in
the Panhandle, -most of Kansas
giant >peedy execution of those1 his I
Mon reasonably soon thereafter. It . ,,,,,,
., i many criminal cases to he rover- i 7 ’ 1
assuio a i - forces condemn as war crimina s.
sed, the Iexas Law Enforcement
Dear Editor:
I see where a Harvard so-
ciologist has been snooping
around watching the human
animal and says he has noticed
that rich people laugh more
often than poor people.
My glum neighbor says he
has observed this same thing,
and one time when he had a
couple of hundred' tin-earmark-
ed dollars on hand, he could
even laugh al TV comedians.
Says, on the other hand,
when you don’t owe him any-
thing, the jokes your banker
tells are not near so funny.
I). E. SCOTT
(BLIZZARD — Page 5)
mittee sossidns and group meet-1
ings where the democratic pto-1 AS ROTARY FELLO^Y
cess must be patiently or impa-
tiently waited on to hatch out its
conclusions had a background
of FFA and chapter conducting
training, the time involved would |
be cut in half and the general
results would probably be more ,
satisfactory.
FFA work teachers youngsters {
how to slice through the red tape
Austin today in step with gray,
threatening clouds which added an
CONDITION "EXTREMELY CRITICAL"
Emergency operation
set for AI a ska's Egan
ROPESVILLE GIRL SWEETHEART
District FFA honors
Tipton and Gilmore
SMYER (Staff i - An'attractive lion’s largest farm boy or"aniza-
Ropesville blonde vvns named dis-, tion.
j trict sweetheart and two Level-! Bodiford said there is an even
land men were presented honorary ‘ more- intense need for the Future
chapter farmer degrees at the an- Farmer program today that when
nual Levelland District FFA ban- it was founded, and praised un-
j quet attended by more than lot) , parallelled opportunities which it
persons heie Monday night. Offers through its agricultural lead-
Miss Elaine Humble, sweetheart . ership training and supervised
of the Ropesville chapter, wan the farming programs,
d^nct title over sweethearts rf He challenged each FFA mem-
each of the other chapters in Hock- her present to examine himself and
| ley and Cochran counties. determine if he had gained as
Miss Humble, a Ropesville high (much as he should from the op-
[ school student, w as presented the portunities offered.
[district sw eethca; t’s tropy by Peg- Supt. Byron Terrill of Smyer
| gy Wiley of Levelland, last year s welcomed the group, representing
district winner, and kissed shyly by ' seven schools in Hockley County
drillict president Bobby Neal of and two in Cochran County to the
; Wlutetace. - ’ banquet.
Horace Gilmore, manager. of . He said that the group present
Coble Farms, and Claud Tipton of for the function was more than he
the First National Bank were a- had ever hoped to sec in the
I w arded honorary chapter farmer, new school catcteria.
degrees for outstanding service for; Also at the meeting, Charles
the FFA as officials of the annua' Hartsell of Levelland and Coy Mid-
I stock show here. leton and Paul Zuber of Morton
Rofarians to hear experiences
of girl who spent year in Australia
„ t | The presentations followed an were recognized as Lone Star
..SEATTLE (APi Alaska’s Gov. i other bodily functions. j address by Roycc Bodiford. past farmers,
j apprehensive touch to the dav s William A. Egan was reported J The surgeon said (lie r a usee of! National FFA vice president, v J District officers who conducted
j long festiv ities. j exiremely critical today and an J the bowel block couldn't he pin-; Bodiford traced the hist >ry of opening and closing ceremonies for
A grinning Gov. Price Daniel ■ emergency operation was sched-; pointed exactlyy hut it may have I FFA from its organization in the meeting were Neal, Charles
j and his family packed one conyer-1 uled to relieve what surgeons said j been brought on by a pancreatic Kansas City in 1928 to the pro- Spence of Smyer, vice president,
tihie followed b> a gtim Lt. Gov. was complete patalvsis of his | attack after removal of Egan’s sent. He said FFA, with 380.000 Bobby Birdsong of Levelland, sec-
(ALASKA’S EGAN — Page 5)
High
Members of the Levelland Ro- j 'irr ow n merit-;.
of public harangue and indecision (Jub aad 'heir wives will ga-, Graduated from Canyon
and come up with an answer. You 'hel at ' 30 p ™ Tuesday at the; hoo! in 1952 and the University
never know how valuable this I Sa" Andres Hotel to hear an at- of Texas in 1956 with high hon-
training is until you’ve sat through and highly mt,.Ihgent P.m
literally thousands of such meet-: ,ar> houndafon Fellow toll o her
ings in which a couple of well- 1,1 a -Vrar of lrl
chosen words would end a thread- ’, '. ... . .
bare discussion an hour early, and . ?he. ls £ 1SS former Mane Col-
let everybody go hertve [ h.j rwfi"'' 1 r T’ ' ^
There are other valuable aspects ° ° ° anvon.
of FFA work hut ^none will serve , ° mrf> ln^.'vas <>* isjmally plan- groups. j breakfast session
a man in public % in as good "od afs ”ne"'(h,rh mothers of the During the summer of 1957. she dres Hotel
stead as this thorough leader- ‘'ittjefield Imtaiv Chib and their | was awarded a Master of Arts
Ben Ramsey and attractive Mrs. i bowels.
Ramsey in another. j Egan, the first elected governor
' of the 19th state w as finvvn here
TEWS HOUSE AND SEN ATE , Monday. afternoon after failing to
money-wise members agreed last j recover satisfactorily from a gall
bladder operation in Juneau, Alas-
members in IS states, is the na-
(F. F. A. HONORS — Page 5)
‘>rs-,- she was chosen as one of the
21 outstanding students at the uni-
versity.
A fehi Beta Kappa, she was pre- j Members of the Levelland Ki
iff.*nt of the senior women's or- ■ vvanis Club heard reports from
Committee chairmen
of Kiwanis outline
goals atclub meet
ka. Jan. 6.
The gravity of his condition was
not disclosed until morning.
Dr. Joel W. Baker, chief sur-
geon at Seattle’s Virginia Mason
Hospital, said Egan had devel-
oped a bowel obstruction and
complete paralysis” in complica-
SOME WILL GO FREE, OTHERS W ILL DIE
Overcrowded Cuban prison filled
with men awaiting Castro trials
t
y ROBERT BERRELLEZ housed ’ in large cells with interi-
HAVANA, Cuba lAPi Jammed ors like Quonset huts. Armed
a stead as
ship and parliamentary
training.
wives would attend But Club Pre- ! degree in Political Science at Duke their organization can l;e justified 50-50.”
sident Hal Joplin said Tuesday that | University ■ „nly on the basis of its service to!
l will be simply a club function i In addition to her year in Atis- the community,
since Littlefield has found that it trailia. Miss Coffee visited in'Eng- With more than half of the com
cannot be present. land, France. Belgium. Switzer- mittee chairmen vet to he heard an hour
Although she is a daughter of J land, Italy, Greece. Egypt. Pakis- from, club members were promis-
. ivernor Her- tan, India r»vi..n vtutu^a ^ -
schell Coffee. Rotarians sav that ! donesia.
Miss Coffee won her fellowship on i » ...
idler prisoners playing cards.
They seemed to he on good terms.
The -English - speaking prisoner
inmates are 561 followers of o\- Escorted by two unarmed identified himself as Evelio Gil,
dictator ..Fulgencio Batista aw ait- guards, our party of U S. news- 23. Havana-born militaryy college
.. i.i ,u in^ ' *’ i a 1 (,n “war criminal” < hien was given an unhindered cadet who joined Batista's police
Club members were told that recovery as somewhat less than charges. (visit to the cells ^
=SroP^,r (Hn' anl h fr0m,Tit,0P f,llaimT °n 'hZ'r • !^eksVaSih f°ll,m'0‘1 SUrKt,ry ,WO ^rmally LusingT-O gl.ards ‘patroT’the' 20-f.Kq vvall's
: e ol °,hei- distinguished for the coming ycjir at Monday s u 'ks a ■ , inmates are .561 followers of ex- Escorted hv two „ „ ,
it the San An-! Dr. Baker described the
V— _ I year-old Democrat’s chances
two years ago.
Some probably will go free. Oth- The prisoners were reluctant to “The only crime I committed
The emergency operation was! *«•, will die before Fidell Castro's talk w.as to arrest some rebels” he
scheduled for 8:51* a.in. (PSTi and firing squads. Finally one voting prisoner Said said. ”1 struck or hurt no'one.”
was expected, to last a little over The prison is inside La Cabana he would speak English “because He eomolained that the food and
Fortress on a hill overlooking Ha- what I say now the guards mav accommodations were bad and
,!cr:ll.“ cS„"m "r ,mn h“"'ric ^“ me,“cal
sented in writing at a subsequent extreme difficulty in breathing. | The prisoners - Batista police., began airing complaints. Tlic two The prison commandant, Alfoni'
i meeting. I lie p.u al.. ,.io nj0 in'ei fci ing with military men and infornici a — die uvorlj dnf'evl oil to chat with, (GA5T RO^TR lALo — Page 5)
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