The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 208, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 29, 1961 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 208
Asseeieted Press (API Ltmd Wire Service
LEVELLAND, TEXAS
TUESDAY, AUGUST 2V. 1941
Inexperience blamed in fatal crash
Where local boy died
State Highway Patrolman Bob Allen of Mor-
ton kneel* before the spot where 14-year-old
Benny Ronald Caswell was fatally crushed
beneath a pickup in a rural road accident
about 5:30 p.m. Monday near Sundown.
Tractor used to raise the pickup from body
is shown in background. (Staff Photo)
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By Oft LIN BREWER
Mrs. HaHie Mitchell of the Retail
Merchants Association says she
}ttt received a letter from Lub-
bock inviting local business peo-
ple to attend their tax informa-
tion session at the Caprock Hotel.
Only one session is remaining,
however. This one, at 2 p.m. Wed-
nesday, will be on clothing and
jewelry and other items. Groc -
eries, drugs and variety store
items were covered Monday, and
Hardware, appliances and other
similar items were covered Tues-
day.
oOo
A suit has been filed by
seven property owners in East
Harris County to stop the San
Jacinto Junior College District
from collecting taxes for main-
tenance and operations.
The property owners say the
district's 15-cent tax levy is
void because Texas laws pro-
vide no tax authorization for
maintenance of a junior col-
lege.
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Levelland people are interested
in this case because former South
Plains College President Dr.
Thomas M. Spencer and former
Supt. 0. W. Marcom are associat-
ed with San Jacinto College.
They'd be out in the cold if the
college is forced to close its doors.
Local people are also interested
in it for the same reason that
people in every other public junior
college district in Texas are in-
terested in it.
If San Jacinto College doesn't
have the right to levy taxes for
maintenance, neither does Amaril-
lo, San Angelo. Howard County,
Frank Phillips, Paris or South
Plains College.
oOo
Now. you can stand hack
and say that a court simply
wouldn't have the gall to come I
out with a ruling which would
place every junior college
district in Texas — 33 of them
now — in jeopardy.
But this isn't necessarily the
case. Courts have done strange
things in this land of ours
over the years, including re-
versing long years of pre-
cedented rulings — on which
jurisprudence finds its bedrock
of stability. Witness the U.S.
Supreme Court and its now
famed school integration rul-
inga, which have become the
law of the land.
oOo
If a court should do such an
unusual thing as to rule that a
junior college doesn't have the
right to exist in Texas, then it
would probably necessitate another
legislation special session in which
laws would be written validating
Vbat junior college have been do-
DAY IN THE MINTAGE S
BEFORE U.N. SESSION
Big four meeting
on Berlin Sept 19
By LEWIS GL LICK
WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S.
spokesman said today the West-
ern Big Four have tentatively
agreed to hold a Western foreign
ministers meeting on Berlin in ad-
vance of the U.N. General Assem-
bly session starting Sept. 19.
The foreign affairs chief at the
United States, Britain, France
and West Germany presumably
would meet in either Washington
or New York although the exact
details have not yet been set, he
said.
State Department press officer
Lincoln- White gave this informa-
tion in response to questions about
reports that the Western Big Four
foreign ministers would soon hold
a Berlin strategy session.
Other sources said either Secre-
tary of State Dean Rusk or Brit-
is Foreign Minister Lord Home
probably would contact Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko
informally as the U.N. session
gets under way, to sound out
whether worthwhile negotiations
might b« possible on the Berlin
dispute.
The informal approach to Gro- j
myko presumably would be a
compromise substitute for a for-
mal diplomatic note which the Al-
lies had considered sending in re-
ply, to an Aug. 3 Moscow' note
offering negotiations on Soviet
terms.
Diplomatic sources said mean-
while that the idea of a formal
proposal to Moscow for negotia-
tions has been shelved for now.
That information came out after
a morning call by Rusk on Presi-
dent Kennedy. Rusk met Monday
with U.N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold and U.N. Ambas-
sador Adlai Stevenson.
The possibility of an informal
Rusk-Gromyko parley remains an
“if” depending among other
things, on whether Gromyko
shows up for the U.N. fall meet-
BIG FOUR-PAGE 2
Local boy
dies near
Sundown
A 14-YEAR-OLD LEVELLAND
junior high school student was fa-
tally injured in a country road
accident Monday afternoon which
investigating officers said a more
experienced driver might have
avoided.
Dead was Benny Ronald Caswell,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. (Bob)
Caswell of Route 4.
The accident occurred at a dirt
road intersection a mile and a half
north and two miles east of Sun-
down when the 1953 Studebaker
pickup driven by the boy went out
of control and overlurned on the
youth’s body after hitting soft
earth at the side of the road.
STATE HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
Bob Allen, who investigated Ihe
accident along with patrolman T.
A. Rowland, said the boy had ap-
parently been trying to avoid a
rough spot in the intersection cros-
sing.
When the vehicle hit the soft
earth on the left side of the road
as he headed west, he apparent-
ly turned the wheels sharply to
the right. The vehicle travelled
several feet before the wheels
caught and sent the pickup skid-
ding across the road into the right
ditch.
The pickup skidded sideways 45
to 50 feet in the soft earth of the
right ditch Before turning
and pinning Caswell und<
right side of the pickup.
CALLS FOR BRAZILIAN REVOLUTION
Castro urges uprising
Meeting tonight
for beginning
students of band
Band directors Bill Woods
and Don Eiring have announc-
ed plans for fifth grade stu-
dents wishing to start band.
A meeting has been schedul-
ed for C to 0 p.m. in the high
school band ball — a come-
and-go session for all interest-
ed students and parents.
A representative from a
hand instrument company will
be present to show instruments
and outline purchase plans for
interested parents and stu-
dents.
Both hand directors stressed
t h e importance of students
and parents attending this
meeting, since classes will
start Thursday. Also, seventh
and eighth grade students wish-
ing to start band instruc-
tion should come by during
this time.
Each year, from 70 to 00 «tu-
and the department is looking
for an increase this year.
under the
A SUNDOWN AREA YOUTH.
identified as Gene Nugent, tried
to turn the pickup up on its
wheels,- then used a -tractor to
pull the vehicle upright off the
body. The side of young Caswell s
head was crush^g apparently by
bolts from an empty tire rack on
the side of the pickup.
He was taken to South Plains
Hospital by a Sundown ambu-
lance, where he was pronounced
dead on arrival.
ALLEN SAID THE WRECK WAS
the second fatality in recent weeks
in the area involving inexperienc-
ed drivers on dirt roads.
A . five-year-old Latin American
girl, Susan Davalos, was killed in
a similar accident only a few
miles away July 30.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
Caswell will be held at 3 p.m.
Wednesday at the Fairview Bap-
tist Church with pastor J. R. Bur-
nett officiating, assisted by form-
er pastor R. C. Guest of Dimmitt.
Burial will be at Levelland ceme-
tery.
Survivors include the mother
and father, one brother. Bill
Ray; two sisters, Mrs. Barbara
June Henderson, Levelland; Tere-
sa Ann, Levelland; paternal grand-
father, T. A. Caswell; maternal
grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. E.W.
Purses, Wichita Falls.
(Friends of the family were pre-
paring to serve food for the fami-
ly at the home of an uncle. Ben
Casw-ell, 121 Avenue H at noon and
at * p.m. Wednesday.)
By JOSE MARIA ORLANDO
HAVANA (AP) - Fidel Castro
today urged Brazilians on to a
popular uprising in the style of his
own revolution to prevent “reac-
tionary militarists” from install-
ing an “illegal fascist regime”
following the resignation of Janio
Quadros as Brazil’s president.
The Cuban prime minister spoke
on television as military leaders
in Brazil sought to block Vice
President Joal Goulart, an even
more outspoken admirer of Cas-
tro than Quadros, from taking the
presidency.
“Profit from the experience of
Cuba,” Castro declared. Reading
from press dispatches, he told his
Cuban TV audience that the situa-
tion in Brazil is confused.
“If the Brazilian people make
use of Cuba's experience and take
arms and throw themselves into
the fight in the mountains, jungles
and forests, the reactionaries will
never be able to succeed," he
said.
The Cuba leader said that in
such a guerrilla war “the peas-
ants, workers and military (forc-
es) of honor” would certainly
emerge victorious against the
Brazilian army and “even the Ar-
my of NATO,” an insinuation that
the United States would send
troops to aid the Brazilian army.
Castro said his government is
worried about the situation in
Brazil because the change in gow»
ernment could be followed by •
new attack on his revolution.
Quadros had been friendly toward
the Castro regime and refused to
support proposals for joint actio*
against it by the American states. '
Cas^g ^arlier in his speech re-
newed his offer to negotiate out-
standing differences with the Unit-
ed States but only as equals be-
cause “the Cuban revolution to
firmly and solidly on He feet.”
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Welcome fo the club
Supt. Thad McDonnell finds something amusing fn his notes
as he, veteran board member George C. Price, and Class-
room Teacher President Mrs. Bert Stockard give three new
teachers a warm “welcome to the club” after a breakfast
HONORED AT BREAKFAST
37 new teachers
on job in schools
for new teachers Tuesday at the San Andres Motto. From ^
left in the picture are Dolores Earley, Selita Tucker, Price,
McDonnell, Mrs. Stockard end Zora Hisa. (Staff Photo)
CROSSROADS
AGENCY OF WASTE HARRASMENT”
Expiration of rights commission
asked by Georgia's Sen. Talmadge
Bv JACK BELL
WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. Her j
man Talmadge, D-Ga., urged to-
day that the Senate let the Civil
Rights Commission expire Nov. 9
as “a paper-shuffling agency of
waste and harrassment.”
He and Sen. Allen J. Ellender,
J D-F!a , assailed the four-year-old
commission as useless, expensive
| and a cause of needless division
] in this nation.
Talmadge took the Senate floor
as Senate leaders sought to ex-
tend the commission's life for two
years by an amendment to other
legislation
“If the American people could
he made imh to Hu aeedi to
tyranny which are sown in this
commission they would rise up in
righteous indignation and demand
as one that this Congress not only
extend its life. but. rather abolish
it forthwith," Talmadge said.
Talmadge said most of the
nearly $3 million spent to date had
gone for high salaries to commis-
sion officials and employes or for
futile activities.
Ellender agreed, noting that the
chairman of the commission gets
$22,500 a year, or the same pay
as a member of Congress and
more than heads of many federal
agencies. ,
Democratic Leader Mike Mans-
Ktod to Montana hoped teitou,
amendment to extend the colli-
sion's life to a $761 million appro-
pnatmn bill for Ihe State and Jus-
tice Departments. He hoped any
other amendments could be side-
tracked.
But civil rights advocates kept
him guessing whether they would
press for a score or more of
amendments they offered when
Mansfield was forced to postpone
action on Ihe measure last week.
Seti. Jacob K Javils. R-N.Y .
indicated that he may withhold
what he called substantive amend-
ments until the Senate takes up a
bill later dealing with imported
Mexican labor. Since most of this
EXPUUTlON-wFAGE 1
THIRTY-SEVEN NEW TEACH
ers, and administrators, joining
the Levelland school district for
the first time this year, were
honored guests at a breakfast
meeting Tuesday morning at the
San Andres Hotel.
The classroom teachers associa-
tion, headed by Mrs. Bert Stock-
ard. president, were official hosts
for the event, which was also at-
tended by member of administra-
tion and the school board.
A SPECIAL WELCOME ON BE
half of the ministers of Levelland
was extended by Dr. Bill Cook,
pastor of the First Baptist Church,
and R. L. Sonningburg explained
the function of the Hockley Coun-
ty Teacher Credit Union, which
now (jas assets of $46,000 and has
loaned more than $200,000 to coun-
ty teachers since its beginning
several years ago.
The new teachers were intro-
duced at the meeting.
AFTER THE BREAKFAST SES-
sion. teachers went into depart-
mental and section meetings.
They also opened registration for
the school year, registering 9th
and 12th grade students from 1
to 4 p.m
Elementary students and eighth
and eleventh grader register from
9 to 12 Wednesday, while seventh
and tenth graders close out re-
gistration from 1 to 4 p m, Wed-
nesday. Classes start on Thursday.
NEW TEACHERS AND THEIR
assignments, including a new high
school counselor not previously an-
nounced by the administration,
ATM
Mrs. Wanda Balch, Fourthl
Grade, Capitol Elementary; Mrs.
Rose Davis, Second Grade, West |
Elementary; Mrs. Lunette Dick-
son, Fifth and Sixth Grade com-
bination, Capitol; Mrs. Dolores
Earley, Sixth Grade, South Ele-
mentary; Mrs. Mary Joe Gillespie,
Fourth Grade, South Elementary;
Miss Clotile Grappe, Second Grade, I
Central Elementary; Mrs. Mildred
Hancock, Junior High Librarian;
Mrs. Zora Mae Hise, Second!
Grade, West Elementary.
Mrs. Majorie Howell. Second j
Grade, South Elementary; Mrs. |
Charlotte Jackson, Junior High |
Speech and English; Mrs. Rose-
NEW TEACHERS—PAGE 2 i
Nine die as
suspension
CHAMONIX, France (AP) -
Nine persons were reported killed
today when a low-flying jet air-1
craft severed the cable of a moun-
tain suspension car system, tum-
bling one cabin 200 yards into a
valley.
Other cars were bashed against
a giant outcropping called the
Gros Rognon when the cable sud-
denly went slack.
It was not immediately known
how. many were injured when the
cars slammed against the rocks
in White Valley.
The glassed-in cabins are drawn
up the steep mountain side on
pylons by an engine at the base of
the mountain, A eabm normally
REPORT
Dear Editor:
Social welfare engineer over
in Indonesia a while back was
backing a law for that coun-
try so a man can't have more
than one wife at a time ex-
cept in case of emergency.
Which seems reasonable e-
nough. and different from
most laws because it allows a
citizen some leeway for spe-
cial conditions.
But my once - blessed neigh-
bor says if he ever runs into
an emergency that he needs
two wives to cope with, he is
of a mind to just call it cope-
less.
D. E. SCOTT
jet cuts
car cable
carries about four passengers,
usually skiers and sightseers.
ft was reported some 90 sight-
seers were stalled in cabins still
swinging between pylons. On some
pylon systems each section is
safety-locked against failures on
others.
A police helicopter with first aid
workers was sent immediately to
the scene.
The plane was unofficially iden-
tified as a French military jet
craft of the 4th Escadrille based
at Luxeil. It returned safely to
base.
The accident occurred in dear,
sunny weather, above an enor-
NINE DIE—PAGE 2
THE LEVELLAND QUARTER.
back Club will sponsor its annual
football clinic — an event design*
ed to help explain the game to
fane an stimulate a little more
thorough infection of grid fever—
at 8 p.m. next Tuesday at Loh®
Stadium.
Local fans are invited to sit is-,
the west stands and attend the
function free of charge. Individual
player? will be introduced by con-
ches, demonstrations of various as-
pects of the game and an explana-
tion of penalties will be presented.
Plans for the clinic were outlin-
ed at Monday night’s meeting to
the club, the third of the season.
Monday night's session was held ^
in the new high school cafeteria,
with a total of 71 in attendance.
HEAD COACH JOHNNIE HICK-
m a n reviewed last Saturday’s
scrimmage in Lamesa. discussed
a new free substitution ruling
which goes into effect this year,
outlined safety precautions which
the staff are following in an ef-
fort to prevent injuries and an-
nounced plans for Saturday night'*
three-way scrimmage with Amaril-
lo and Big Spring here.
Hickman said the scrimmage
will start at 4 p m and will likely
continue under the lights.
THE HEAD COACH TOLD
quarterback members, “I think we
found out a lot about our team”
in the Lamesa scrimmage, but he
confessed “we didn’t look too good”
pointing out that he doesn't
feel the squad is an far along aa
it was this time last year.
The number of sophomores e*
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Brewer, Orlin. The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 208, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 29, 1961, newspaper, August 29, 1961; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1137196/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Plains College.