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The Weather
Temperature reading* f*r th*
past 24-hour period ending at
noOn today:
Minimum 56
Maximum 93
Noon Reading 89
FORECAST: Partly cloudy thru
Wednesday with isolated afternoon
and evening thunderstorms.
Ibs Levelland Daily Sun News
“WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1960
XVIII — NUMBER 215 LEVELLAND, TEXAS Associated Press (AP) Leased Wire Service_Price: Doily 5c— Sunday 10c
Khrushchev insists on U.S. apology
WEATHER ALERT ISSUED
Violent storm
lashes Electro
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Severe weather alerts went up
shortly before noon Tuesday for
a bread area of West Texas.
One forecast warned of possible
tornadoes between 2 and 8 p.m.
in a 120-mile wide belt centering
on a line from 60 miles west
trSLSUN
By ORLIN BREWER 1
Folks along the old Texas High-
way' 51 worked 20 years to get it
“red-lined” on the map as a fed-
eral highway. They realized their
goal last year when the route was
designated as U. S. 385.
The new official Texas Highway
Department Maps are out now (you
can get them for free by writing
the Texas Highway Department,
Austin 14, or at district highway
offices and travel bureaus. The de-
partment is no longer red - lining
U. S. highways. Now only the new
four-lane Interstate highways are
redlined.
Of course, we still have a friend
In the various oil companies which
put out maps. They haven’t dis-
carded their red ink on U. S
routes — not yet, anyway.
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The new state highway map
now reflects 1,933 miles of com-
pleted multilane - divided high-
ways. More than 1,500 farm to
market road miloa have been
added, with approximately 20,-
NO miloa * th# state's 30,ON
FM reads shewn. All the 21,-
ttt miles of state and U. S.
Highways are shewn. Total
mileage of such reads in Tex-
as: 01,400.
The thud of slugs in pay tele-
phones is about to be eliminated
according to General Telephone
Company's local manager Paul
Farrar of Brownfield. _
A new “swindle - proof” device
Is being used in all new pay sta-
tions being produced by Automat-
ic Electric Company, manufactur-
ing subsidiary of General Tele -
phone & Electronic Corp.
In addition. Automatic Electric
has developed an antislug conver-
sion kit which can be installed on
pay stations presently in use.
This is a welcome development
for the telephone company, which
wages a continuous battle against
slugs. Slugs representing about 32,-
500 per year are illegally deposited
in paystation telephones operated
by General. Various devices have
been developed and each time loss-
es from slugs have been cut to a
greater extent.
General still hasn’t found a so-
lution to thugs, however — the
kind who maliciously break out
glass in the telephone booths such
as those which dot Levelland.
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It might interest you to know
that Levelland’* parking me-
ters, which cost about $70 each,
are now paid for and the esti-
mated $13,000 annually which
they produce goes to the city
a* clear revenue except for the
expenses of maintenance and
upkeep.
This maintenance and up •
keep becomes quite a problem,
when you consider that It may
take tip to V/i hours to re-
pair a meter after somebody
has banged It the palm of his
hand to get a few minute*
free parking time.
Sometimes a thoughtless
Sometimes a thoughtless kid
will walk down the street bang-
ing every meter along a block.
The result of five minute*
play of this sort can some-
times mean a day of work in
th* meter repair department
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If you ever watch Slim Logsdon
take down one of the meters,
you'll understand why. There are
17 separate gears which are sub-
ject to damage and some 20
springs which keep the mechanism
working. In addition to this, an
eight day clock which requires
winding periodically, can some-
times be damaged in this fashion.
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Logsdon laughingly refers to
himoetf as "the meaner man”
rather than “the meter man,”
because of the resentment an
occasional tickat for overpay-
ing brings.
It's a wonder he’s the friend-
ly and patient guy he Is, when
you consider how he must feel
on a day when somebody has
been whacking away at hit me-
Demands
northwest of Childress across the
Oklahoma line to 40 miles north
of Ardmore.
A companion advisory cautioned
against vicious thunderstorms with
large hail and damaging winds
from 3 to 9 p.m. in an area ex-
tending 60 miles each side cf a
line from Peoos to San Angelo.
The alerts, issued almost daily
for some parts of the state the
past two weeks, followed on the
heels cf a violent rain and hail
storm which lashed the sector
around Electra in Northwest Tex:
as Monday night, flooding streets,
destroying crops and blocking
highways for a time.
Included in the area covered by
Tuesday’s tornado forecast are
Childress. Quanah and Vernon.
Wichita Falls is just outside this
belt.
Among cities in the territory
cautioned against severe wind, hail
and rain are Midland, Odessa,
Monahans, Pecos, Big Spring, San
Angelo, Fort Stockton, Ozona and
Sen ora.
Monday night’s storm dumped 4
inches of rain around Electra in
slightly more than two hours.
Heavy hail and lightning accom-
panies the deluge.
Dozens of cars stalled in high
water on state highways and in
the streets of the city. State High-
way 25 north to Haynesville. Tex.,
and U.S. 287 west to Vernon were
blocked by water for many hours
tv it by early morning all roads
were open. Damage to buildings
was light and Biere were no in-
juries reported: j
A rancher eas\ of Electra, Wen-
del! Douglas, Ibid police he saw
“mattresses and everything else”
Posting down a creek that runs
through his ranch.
More than 4 inches of rain fell
8 to 10 miles northeast cf Electra
and wheat and fruit crops, dam-
aged by previous hailstorms this
month, were reported wiped out.
Wichita Falls had a thunder-
storm Monday but the rest of the
state enjoyed summer-like weath-
er. Temperatures climbed to 100 ' temoon.
at Presidio. ! accoding to statute must be a
A weak stationary front extend-1 He was qualified immediately
ed from near Wichita Falls to and assumed the duties of the of-
WELDON JOHNSON
. . . Named special judge
WHILE OWENS ILL
Johnson
elected
as judge
THE HOCKLEY County Bar As-
sociation has named Weldon John-
son, Democratic nominee for
county attorney, as special Hock-
ley County judge, effective im-
mediately.
Local lawyers named Johnson to
the post under a state slatute
which gives them this authority
when the county judge is tempor-
arily unable to fulfill his duties.
COUNTY Judge Louis Owens
has_ been ill with pneumonia. He
has’ been transferred to Methodist
Hospital in Lubbock, his friends
say, because he has failed to re-
spond to normal treatment pro-
cedures.
Just how long Owens would be
incapacitated wasn’t known. Local
officials said, however, that the
appointment of a special judge to
carry out his duties while he is
unable to do them was cleared with
Owens.
JOHNSON WAS elected to the
post in a brief court house session
which probably consunjcri no more
than 15 minutes early Monday af-
Lubbock early Tuesday. Tempera-
tures north of the front were in
the middle to upper 50s while
south of the front in West and
North Texas readings were in the
upper 60s. In south portions of
lice.
Present for the balloting, which
according to statute must be a
written vote, were Warren Tabor,
president of the Association; Al-
vin R. Allison, Dwight Mann.
South Texas the temperature j Frank Kiser and E. W. (BillI Boe-1 issue
climbed to the middle 70s. i deker. Other attorneys who are
The lowest temperature early in j members of the association were
the day was 55 at Dalhart and the either out of town or couldn’t be
highest 78 at Laredo. No’ rain was | located.
JOHNSON SAYS his duties will
terminale the moment Judge Ow-
ens returns to his office to resume
his duties.
Provisions for appointment by
the county’s bar association apply
only to a temporary inability of the
judge to do the duties of his office.
A vacancy is filled through an
appointment by the
missioners court.
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
PARIS (AP) — Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev insisted today
there can be no summit confer-
ence unless the United States
apologizes and punishes those re-
sponsible for the U2 flight.
“We won’t attend a conference
as long as the Americans will not
give us satisfaction,” he said.
He made his stand three times
today—in two informal interviews
and in a statement issued through
the Soviet Embassy. The United
States, meantime, showed no sign
of meeting the Soviet leader’s de-
mands by going beyemd President
Eisenhower’s disclosure Monday
that U.S. spy flights over the So-
viet Union are discontinued.
Khrushchev’s formal statement
said:
"I am ready to participate In a
meeting with President de Gaulle
of France, Prime Minister Mac-
millan of Great Britain and U. S.
President Eisenhower to exchange
views on whether conditions have
materialized to start the summit
conference.
"If the United States have real-
ly come to the decision to con-
demn the treacherous incursion oi
American military aircraft into
the air space of the Soviet Union,
publicly express regrets over
these incursions, punish those who
are guilty and give assurance
that such incursions will not be re-
peated -in the future, we would
he ready on the recept of auch
assurance to participate in the
summit conference.”
This statement seemed to mean
that the Soviet premier was will-
ing to get togethec. with the West-
ern Big Three, but that any auch
session could deal only with his
preliminary demands. ^
His maneuver appeared to be
primarily an attempt to shift to
Eisenhower the blame to break-
ing up the summit conference.
Eisenhower met with De Gaulle
and Macmillan this afternoon, and
invited Khrushchev to sit with
them.
He scorned the invitation, but 45
minutes later issued his statement
putting the issue up to Eisenhow-
er.
It was announced earlier that
Khrushchev would hold a news
conference today but this was
called off simultaneously with the
of the Soviet Premier’s
won
city water contract
Local bidder
GEORGE OWENS
of Levelland slipped well under a I contract a new million gallon con-
total cf 10 separate bidders here crete storage reservoir and pump
Monday to win the right to lay station which will go in at Hick-
some 30,000 feet of six to 12 inch ory and Sherman streets,
water mains to strengthen the I Owens’ bid of $203,599.25 was
reported.
i
Hockley absentee
balloting underway
Absentee balloting for the June
4 second Democratic primary op-
ened Tuesday, with at least two
votes cast in the county clerk’s
office before noon.
County Clerk Grace Clingan said
the balloting originally was slated
to open Monday, but a delay in
printing of ballots pushed back the
opening.
The absentee polls will be open
through May 31 in the county
clerk’s office.
Four county runoff races will be
decided along with one statewide
race.
Sheriff Weir Clem faces*B. L.
Warren, Precinct 3 Commissioner
Dale Reid faces Jack Morton, Pre-
cinct 5 Constable V. J. Humphreys
is running against Bill Home and
Precinct 1 Constable Jack Ogle is
vying with Bill Whitlock.
The state race is for the court
of criminal appeals.
statement.
De Gaulle issue his invitation
to today’s session at the sugges-
tion of Macmillan.
Motorcycle messengers vainly
sped the invitation to Sezanne,
about 75 miles from Paris, where
Khrushchev had gone on a motor
tour.
"Gen. de Gaulle knows my po-
sition,” Khrushchev said then.
"He knows very well that we
won’t attend a conference as long'
county com- as the Americans will not give us*
satisfaction ”
A bit earlier, in a sidewalk In-
terview, Khrushchev said he ’was
. . ... ready to return to Moscow if his
LI.BLOCK iAP) — Lubbock s demands were not accepted.
Macmillan arrived first at- De
Gaulle’s Elysee Palace for the Big
Three meeting. He was six min-
BULLETIN
population was announced today
as 128,068, up from 71,747 in 1950.
The figure was keely disappoint-
ing to officials cf the city and
the Chamber of Commerce, which
estimated the city population as
of Jan. 1 at 158,673.
Lubbock County, the city’s met-
ropolitan area, was 155.485, com-
pared to 101,048.
Rival Amarillo, 120 miles to the
north, has a 1960 figure of 137,083.
compared to 74.246.
Lubbock, however, claimed a
larger metropolitan count, placing
the Amarillo metropolitan popula-
tion at 148.505 to 155,485 for Lub-
bock County.
BALTIMORE (API—Light vot-
utes early. Then Eisenhower drove ( *n8 early today marked the Dem-
into the palace courtyard. ocratic presidential primary in
which Sen. John F. Kennedy
(D-Massl was a heavy favorite to
pick up Maryland's 24 nominating
votes.
Even Sen. Wayne Morse
(D-Ore), his only major tpponent,
admitted he did not expect to stop
Kennedy here.
WITH EAST GERMANY
Khrushchev said ready
to sign peac$ treaty
PARIS (API-Communist journ-
alists spread word today that So-
viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
may sign a separate peace treaty
with the Red East Germany in
Berlin shortly In the wake of the
summit parley breakdown.
Soviet spokesman were not im-
mediately available to comment.
Khrushchev told reporters earlier
in the day he will visit East Berlin
on his way home from Paris.
It was possible Red newsmen
circulated the .report as a means
of trying to influence the big West-
ern powew to accept Khruebcbewt —land.
conditions for getting the summit
meeting back on the rails.
Khrushchev has threatened In
the past to sign a separate treaty
with East Germany, whose Red
regime is not recognized by the
West, if fhe Big Three Western
powers refused to go along with
his proposal that all sign treaties
with West and East Germany.
He has declared that a separate
Soviet-East German treaty would
me#n denial to the Western pow-
ers of access to Western-garri-
soned West Berlin by every route
Summit at
a glance
and aw.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS- Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev insisted the summit
meeting cannot go on unless Pres-
ident Eisenhower admits the Unit-
ed States committed aggression
against the Soviet Union, apolo-
gizes, guarantees no mere spy
flights will be made over the So-
viet Union, -and punishes those re-
sponsible. Western Big Three met
wiihout him.
MOSCOW —Soviet press and ra-
dio began an indignation cam-
paign against U.S. spy flights.
Rallies were reported held in So-
viet cities supporting Khrush-
chev’s policies at the summit at-
tacking "reactionary circles” in
America.
WASHINGTON — Most Demo-
crats were cautious to avoid say-
ing anything that might make Ei-
senhower's position more difficult.
Politicians felt die Republicans
may kwe the “peace issue” for
the presidential campaign. Ob-
servers said the Khrushchev
blowup may be linked to a new
toll* Soviet eoid war loa.
Contractors, city s water system and to sute considerably below the figure en- £*ater improvement prS^,
gmeers and city officials had an- which councilmen had lrimmed to
ic.pated, offering them an oppor- j almost hajf * what had ^ re_
tun.ty to do more work than had commended in an engineering sur-
CITBENS VOTED*"$250 000 in Wy of city *a,er and
CITIZENS \ OTLD $250,000 m Engineer Clarence Cooper told
councilmen that he figured actual
cost to the city would run only a-
bout $201,000, since Owens had
allowed $7,000 for pumps and mo-
tors and there was good indicat-
ion the city might pick them up
for around $5,000.
Although the city is paying for
a new water well drilled in the
southwest comer of the city park
from the $250,000 in bend money,
some $40,000 is expected to be
left untouched. Indications were
that councilmen might utilize the
remaining money for facilities
which admittedly are needed, but
had been trimmed out of the city’s
bond program for economy or ot-
her reasons.
OWENS, bidding in partnership
with Joe H. Bruce of Dimmitt,
said he would subcontract the stor-
age reservoir and pump station
building to W. B. Abbott of Lub-
bock.
A work order on the big pro-
ject is expected to be issued some-
where around June 1 to June 10,
with the project designated for
completion within 120 days from
that dale.
I.EVELI.AND city councilmen
made what appeared to be a fairly
reluctant decision to use foreign-
made asbestos - cement pipe on
the project.
-Otvsfw was bidding a Belgium
pipe similar to the type used by
I.ubbock during the past several
years.
Councilmen figured a switch to
American - made pipe would neces-
sitate awarding the contract to
someone other than Owens and
| j would cost the city in the vicinity
f! of $25,000 — an economic fact of
j life which they felt left them little
1 choice on the subject of “trading
at home" on the national level.
THE BIDDER next to Owens in
the competition was Panhandle
Construction Company of Lubbock,
with a low bid of $220,515 on do-
mestic pipe. Panhandle offered an
alternate subtracting $4,404.06 for
use of foreign pipe.
Graham Construction of Camer-
on. Tex., submitted the high bid of
$308,612.90. more than a hundred —
thousand dollars above the bid of
Ovens.
City councilmen closed out their
activities on the water project by
authorizing payment of $6,000 to the
engineers Parkhill, Smith and
Cooper.
! THE COUNCIL also awarded
j contracts lo Grady Terrill Ford for
two ne.v Ford automobiles for the
city police force. Councilmen a-
warded the contract to Terrill for
two V-8 automobiles with heavy-
duty generators and Thunderbird
! motors, although a bid they calcu-
I lated to be $il6 lower was sub-
j mitted by the local Rambler deal-
er on a Rambler V-8.
j They justified their action on the
basis that they knew of no police
j departments which were using
Ramblers, and that their record
for this kind of use was unknown.
I On the other hand, they said they
| were acquainted with the Fords,
j through long use in the local de-
{ partment.
j Terrill's base hid was $5,434.20
j for two six cylinder vehicles with
j a trade-in allowance of $2,567.20.
{An alternate permitted adding of
j $250 for V-8 rather than six-cylin-
i der engines w as accepted by the
council.
1 IN OTHER ACTION the council:
(See LOCAL BIDDER—Page 2A)
A WORD FOR LOW BIDDER
Councilman P. J. Marcom (right) has a
word for low bidder George Owens and
councilman Wilson Cox listens in after
the Levelland contractor won the con-
tract on the city’s new water expansion
program. Owens won the contract on a
bid of $203,599.25 for laying some 30,-
000 feet of water mains, building a con-
crete storage reservoir and a pump sta-
tion. He plans to subcontract the million
gallon reservoir and pump station.
KENNEDY HEAVY FAVORITE
Light voting marks
Maryland primary
CROSSROADS
REPORT
Besides Kennedy and Morse, the [
Maryland choices . include fumi-1
lure man Lar Daly of Chicago, j
Baltimore draftsman Andrew J. |
Easter and a spot marked "un-
instructed delegation" for those
preferring an uncommitted dele-
gation to the national convention.
Morse said he’d be happy to get
35 per cent of the vote, but his
Dear Editor:
I ttee where It looks likely
Congress will put a billion dol-
lars into buying up house mort-
gages, unless President Ike
gets a stubborn spell on.
My debt-beat neighbor says
this is just part of a nation-
wide drive to stamp out inde-
pendence fever whieh comes
on from not owing anybody.
Says, though, our churehes
ought to be highly in favor of
this program to sell more
homes, on aeeount of there is
nothing like a 30-year mortgage
to impress folks with the dur-
ableness of eternity.
d’. E. SCOTT
j campaign coordinator, Mrs. Lane I
Election officials In Baltimore i f*rk' suggested 25 per cent would
said the vote was extremely light i ^ more realistic,
and at the present rale would I "Anything over that would be j
amount to less than 30 per cent i a moral victory for Morse and |
c4 the registered voters. Reports, shouki help him avoid an upset |
from the counties ind?cated the j defeat in Oregon.” she said.
same indifference. -:------------
also entered in Friday's primary i MACMILLAN INTERPRETS FOR OLD FRIENDS
in Oregon, both sides watched the
Maryland results for ammunition
to use in the West Coast race.
“By running up a big vote here,
we would get a psychological lift
in Oregon," said Joseph Curnane,
executive secretary of Kennedy
headquarters in Baltimore.
How big a vote? Joseph D. Tyd-
ings, Kennedy's Maryland politi-
cal agent, wouldn’t go beyond pre-
dicting 55 per cent of the vote
for his man.
“You've got to remember there
are five choices on the ballot.” he
said. “There’s the usual small
percentage of the vote which even
an unknown gets, and there are
those who will vote for someone
besides Kennedy because they'd
rather see (Sens. Lyndon B.t
Johnson or (Stuart) Symington
oosnto&tod instead of Kennedy.”
Ike visits mayor of French town
which made him honorary citizen
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
PARIS (API—President Eisen-
hower paid a surprise call today
on an old friend—the mayor of a
French village which made the
President an honorary citizen a
few years ago.
And who served as hastily en-
listed interpreter for Eisenhower
and the French-speaking mayor,
67-year-old Jean Mine*?
None other than Britain's Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan.
flipping away tram tta tribula-
tions of trying to salvage the sum-1 With Macmillan at his side, El-
mit conference, the President and \ senhower took a nostalgic, tour of
Macmillan drove in Eisenhower's the gardens. He did not go into
limousine to the picturesque Paris
suburb of Marnes la Coquette.
It was there that Eisenhower
lived in 1951-52 when he was su-
preme commander of North At-
lantic Treaty Organization forces
in Europe.
The first stop on today’s hour-
the villa.
Then Eisenhower and Macmil-
lan drove to City Hall to see Mi-
not. But on arrival there excited
villagers reported the mayor was
not in his office.
Eisenhower was about to drive
off when Minot, a portly gray-
haired man. came huffing and
long tour was at the beautiful villa
in which Eisenhower and his wife i puffing.,across the square.
lived nearly • decade ago. 1 <fitt IKK VISIT* — Page SR)
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