The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 183, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 29, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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Meet in 2nd Primary
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In Constable,
Veteran Peace Of
four candidates ih
sfaturday, forcing i
while Tax Assess/-*
turned to offlce/r another four y<
land, who mijJW election by onlj
ago, swept iqfo office as commissi*
In anothjp important county i
Reid move# into a runoff with ira
in the raaf for commissioner of Prec
Woody
Senate to
anxious to give up a seat in
become governor of Texas, led his closest opponent,
Ralph Yarborough, by more than 100,000 Votes in early-
morning returns Sunday.
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'Uvbfc^^eve;
town in this 'port;:of the country.
wk once what we call a “Satur-
r^-daj- toim.? ■
Rura. families packed into their
autos on Saturday afternoon to do
the week** shopping. They made
the nickel and dime stores, the
drygood and deportment stores,
then invaded tho grocery store for
the week’s supply of vittles as they
prepared to head home.
Changing times and merchan-
dising trends altered aU this.
Supermarket* inaugurated trad-
ing stamps and double stamp day
an effort to pull shoppers in
toward the first cf the week. Mer-
chants tried to do the same thing
wttk their advertising.
Daily newspaper and radio ad-
vertising media also helped with
this. Oil field people, with « hank-
ering for weekends with relatives
and at their favorite fish lake, did
much of dieir shopping during the
' ’hasn't
afternoon trading
l long, time, except in har-
i Wren transient La-
came to
. “for bare ne-
r they lay away their
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Daniel Leads Field in Gover
Senator Runs
MAfeadOf
Five Opponent
Bv ROBERT E. FORD
The Associated Press
Sen. Price Daniel, running wet
ahead of five opponents, Sundaj
morning appeared headed For $
runoff for governor with Rafet
to tprn
, the trick .___
cam Used the streets retni-
ulaceet of the days when the
city was without parking me
teiu. A mob of old timem.
mingled with even a few of
the younger set, Mocked the
sidewalk in front of the Level-
land Coffee Shop.
Whether It moan* heavier
voting than usual was some-
thing which we couldn’t deter-
•v mine In early afternoon, but it
certainly meant greater inter-
est tii local and state elections.
.’r Actually, some boxes report-
ed heavier voting than two
- yearn ago; while others said
theirs might be lighter.
Later counts Saturday night,
as returns started rolling in,
were expected to tell the tale.
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There certainly won't be any
Sunday morning public embarrass-
ment for the Beiden Poll — The
Texas version of the Gallup sur-
vey of public opinon — whether
the poll was close on Saturday's
elections*, or missed it a mile.
The finding of the poll for the
last couple. of months preceding
the election arc supposed to be
sc cret.
The ultra-liberal Texas Observer
says it has learned Beiden Poll
findings have been sold to private
interests, including politic ins with
no publication of results permitted.
(Continued on page seven)
Yarborough in what may be the
biggest Democratic primary in
Texas history.
Daniel had 427,644 votes. Yar-
borough, making his third bid fed
the office, had 316,103.
W. Lee O’Daniel, ex-senator and
ex-governor who came out of rer
tirement for the campaign, hand
235,804 ballots when the Texas
Election Bureau halted counting
for the night at laM a. m.
Robert Johnson. head of the
Texas Election Bureau, said 1
Sunday that it appeared 1,660,(
votes were cast, which would
an all-time high tor a Texas Demo-
cratic primary.
Johnson said “It appears that
Paniel and Yarborough wttj be ta
4*&e runoff. although O’Danfe
still has a mathmatical poealbil
ity. It is unlikely that
able to get
slowly
3-POWER CONFERENCE SET UP
ODanter*^
but steadily until the
1 a.m. count, when he staged a
light comeback. '% . ■ *?
The senator issued a statement
from his Liberty, Tex., home near
midnight saying he was glad a
“clean campaigner” can stHl win
in Texas.
“I feel positive with the 40 per
cent vote as of now I certainly
will win the race and the runof
provided that those who believe
in my platform continue to work
as ha-d as they did in this first
primary.” He retired shortly after
midnight.
Yarborough said earlier in the
night that he was confident the
runoff would be between himself
and Daniel. He took time out from
listening to election returns to de-
clare that Daniel, while attorney
general, "never bothered” politic-
ally turbuent Duval County. "He
took care of them, so they are
helping him,” he said.
George Parr, considered for
many years the boss of Duval
with President Gamal Abdel Nas-1 don in dealing with the crisis, the 9°unty save his backing to
Daniel, but the senator repudiated
the support. Incomplete Duval
County returns showed Daniel
(Continued on page seven)
Britain Slams Bank
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Dooron Egypt Cash
LONDON. July 28 )P — Britain ington tonight to take part in the
slammed the oank door on Egyp-1 talks at the invitation of Britain
tian cash and assets here today | and Prance.
and set up a three-power confer- In Washington it was said the
ence with the United States and 1Uni,ed S,a,eS Was eXpec,ed 40
France on further steps to deal! «ive ful1 -suPP°rt to Pans and Lon-
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WOODY SULLIVAN
sc-r’s grab of the Suez Canal.
Eritain’s first answer to Nas- j World War II.
gravest in the Middle East since
set’s nationalization of the water-
way was to freeze all assets of the
Suez Canal Co. in the United
Kingdom and ail Egyptian cash
and assets, public and private.
The move was a powerful blow
aimed al Egypt’s foreign trade.
Future steps were to be consid-
ered here Monday. Robert Mur-
phy, U. S. deputy undersecretary
of state, was flying from Wash-
The response to these steps was
a fiery speech in Cairo today by
President Nasser, who received a
wild and tumultous welcome upon
his return from Alexandria where
he announced the nationalization
of the 103-mile canal Thursday
night.
In a speech from his office win-
dow to a huge cheering crowd.
(Continued on page seven)
THIS WEEK'S HOCKLEY PROFILE: D. P. BATES
Farm Loan Association Secretary
Descendant of Early American Poet
A family history which may be
traced back through colorful gen-
erations is something wrapped- in
a tidy package end handed to a
child at birth.
It is one of those pre-determined
farts of life over which he has no
control, such is whether his eyes
wiU be blue or blown, or his hair
red or hlack.
D. P. (for David Payne) Bates,
who operates (fie National Farm
Loan Assn, for Hockley, Cochran,
Tory ana Yoakum counties here,
Has one of those colorful family
tirecs, with roots reaching back
part the birth of the nation.
Oc Ills mother’* side, the family
dates back to the poet, Henry
Wfedsworth Longfellow, and runs
through a succession of interesting
fdBerations ’until the present.
Ms maternal grandfather, for
instance lived
Airing QvU War day
in jkmthern
t days. He
Iowa
helped
D. P. BATES
to smuggle Negro slaves to free
dem as a member of the famed
underground railroad.
After the grandfather's death,
Bates' widowed grandmother, and
his own mother lived with a bro-
ther who was a college professor
in Tennessee and Nebraska.
U The ancestors of Bates’ father
£0 back to three brothers who
landed in Baltimore in 1639, after
■ailing from England.
%y conincidence, Bates and W.
H. Bates of Ropcsville met a few
years ago. They began searching
lor family ties and with the help
of a family lineage record learn-
ed one was a descendant of one
of the original three brothers,
while the other was a descendant
of another.
Oddly enough Bates never knew
either of his grandfathers or his
^maternal grandmother.
* Continued On Page Five)
Late Returns
DALLAS, July 29 (Pt—(Returns to
the Texas Election Bureau at 1:30
a.m. from 221 out of 254 counties
in the state including 77 complete,
show the following totals for can-
didates in Saturday’s Democratic
Primary Election:
Governor: Price Daniel 427,644,
Haley 60,523, Holmes 8,156, Lee
O’Daniel 235,83-5, Senterfitt 24,993,
Yarborough 316,103.
Lieut.-governor: Aiken 253,803,
Johnson 94,104, Ramsey 431,630,
Smith 151,624.
Attorney general: Carlton 83,496,
Hill 52,223, Moore 310,838, Wilson
440,542.
Agriculture com: Barber 170,-
987, Jones 179,219, White 494,558.
Congress-at-large: Dies 584,096,
Elkins 279,960.
Land commissioner: Price 395,-
675, Rudder 390,047.
Criminal appeals: Morrison 430,-
606, Owens 375,960.
Supreme court: Hughes 386,246,
Norvell 357,516.
State treasurer: Harding 367,067,
James 518,012.
Herbert Martin was behihd in
his reelection bid for Dist. 7 court
of civil appeals. Alton Chapman
Floydada district judge, had 39,-
623 votes and Martin had 37,318.
REFERENDUM:
School segregation: Approval
171,021,' Against 122,811.
Against intermarriage: Approval
469,525, Against 110,303.
InterposHion: Approval 452,885,
Against 100,691.
O. W. COOK
R. T. (GAIL) RAM-AGE
III City Precinct Conventions
Resolution of Jaycees
Gets Spotted Support
Stewart in
teim, received 3,135 votes
&y Basil Webb. Moreland, drawing
heavy( support in every box, 6-
massed 1,230 votes lb 504 for Newt
Green and 460 for Frank George.
Hi Haven, an announced candidate
who died prior to the election re-
ceived 6 votes.
In the race for Commissioner of
Precinct 3, Morton was hard press
ed most of the way by Reid. Mor-
ton received 304 votes to 259 for
Reid. W. O. Tipton was third with
139. Herman Greener polled 85,
Gene Birdwell received 47 and Cal
vin Keen received 40.
In the race for constable at Sun-
down, Rarr.mage and Cook ran
neck and neck. Cook received 147
to 140 for Ramage. J. A. Whiteside
followed with 124 while R. E. Max-
ey polled 72, former Sheriff Guy
Swain received 61 and Delbert
Ruthardt 57.
In the constable race in Pre-
cinct 1, Jack Ogle, the only man
on the ballot withstood a write-in
campaign by two candidates to
gain a victory there. He polled
563 votes to 122 for Bob Whitlock
and 123 for Bradshaw.
In the only other county races,
Warren Tabor was returned un-
opposed to the office of county at-
torney with a total of 4,599 votes.
V. J. Humphreys, also unopposed,
received 2,702 votes as constable
of precinct 5.
E. W. (Bill) Boedeker received
the highest vote recorded for any
county candidate when he was
named county democratic chair-
man replacing Harry Mann, who
declined to run for re-election.
Boedeker polled 4,630.
a
'ng Sen. Price Daniel to 5ie front
in the race for Governor,
County residents cast UB7 votes
for Daniel to 1,420 for Judge Ralph
Yarborough and 1,292 for former
governor and senator W. Lee O’-
Daniel, who managed ter push in-
to the lead in a few isolated coun-
ty precincts.
Hockley gave former lieutenant
governor John Lee Smith a good
edge in his bid to regain the same
post from incumbent Ben Ramsey.
Youthful Carroll Cobb led the
veterans in the race for the state
legislature in Hockley County how-
ever, while James F. Moore gain-
(Continued on page seven)
4
A Levellanl Junior Chamber of
Commerce resolution urging ade-
quate annual salaries and yearly
sessions for state legislators re-
ceived only spotted support in De-
mocratic precinct conventions in
Levelland Saturday morning.
No reports were immediately n-
vailable on precinct sessions held
outside the city.
CbriVention proceedings were
quiet as eight > ity precincts elect-
ed 21 delegates to attend the Aug.
4 county Democratic convention
hero.
Delegates to the state conven-
tion Sept. 11 will be named at
next Saturday's convention. Pur-
pose erf the September state con-
vention is to set up party mach-
inery for the next two yeai-s.
Convention delegates named in
<precinct 11 were Frank Kiser, Earl
Allison and Fletcher B. Lewis. Con
ducting the nomination and elec-
tion bf delegates — the only form
of business for precinct 11 — was
clutlrman Bob Ford.
Delegates In Precinct 12 were
instructed to “back Johnson's mid-
dle-of-the-road policy,” said E. W.
(BUI) Boedeker, who was named
chairman. Cecil Pace,. Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Robbins, Lawrence
Rowe and Jimmy Bearden were
named to attend the county con-
vention.
Precinct 21’s convention gather-
ing voted unanimously to recom-
mend county adoption of the Jay-
cet legislature proposal at the Aug.
4 convention. Delegates elected
were George Price, precinct chair-
(Continued on page seven)
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U. S. Protests
Suez Seizure
WASHINGTON, July 28 (P—The
United States protested vigorously
to Egypt today against what it
called many 'intemperate, inac-
curate and misleading state-
ments" made this week about this
country by Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The protest was delivered orally
by Undersecretary of State Her-
bert Hoover Jr. to Ambassador
Ahmed Hussein of Egypt. Hussein
said he could not "accept the
protest."
State Department press officer
Lincoln White, reporting on the
Hoover-1 Iussein talk at the depart-
ment this afternoon, said he as
sumed nevertheless that Husseir
would report Hoover's views to the
Egyptian government.
White said the State Departmehi
would not specify what statement?
it was protesting.
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(T.&ARCTT WINNERS—Murry
C. Stewart (top) and Huloo More
land won rlearcwt victories over
opponents la Saturday’* primary.
Stewart wao re-elected Tax As-
sor-Collector and Moreland Com-
ntlaetoner of Precinct 1.
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