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Crestfallen rivals
keep on plugging
BY COMMISSIONERS
Liquor vote
issue studied
HOCKLEY ' COUNTY COM-
sioners had taken no action at noon
Monday on petitions seeking a lo-
cal option election on legalized sale
of liquor in Sundown They con-
tinued discussion of the situation
with backers of the Sundown pe-
titions. 5. " *
However,, commissioners prom-
ised that the session would not be
recessed until some action is tak-
en. “We’ll stay here as long~as
necessary/*. one commissioner de-
clared ft noon. The court session
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By OHLlN BREWER
Congratulations to the Levelland
Jaycees.
They went to Paptpa over the
weekend with their guns loaded
for bear and came back with fair
game 4 the largest Jaycee con-
vention which will be staged in
these parts in. 19#J.
Twelve delegates
,, V
trl-regional conven-
tion, which will be held here in
either January or February.
They expect a bigger turnout
than the Pampa meeting had be-
cause the winter session is always
more volatile. A keen competition
for the offices of state vice pre-
sidents for Regions 1, 2 and 3 will
see to this. These high state offic-
ers will be elected at the Level-
land convention.
oOo
Delegates front the conten-
tion tell us they “rigged" the
convention. In other words,
they got such a head start iu
their campaign that nobody
else got into the contest.
“It wouldn't have done them
any good." one delegate said.
The Levelland group started
their drive for the convention
by serving conventioners green
punch. Even the mayor of
Pampa got in on this.
There wns no official word on
whether the punch was drug-
ged. But the mayor expressed
some concern on whether his
city’s sewer system could stand
the strain.
Anyway, the Levelland Jay-
cees got what they want,
whether or not they exerted
undue influence, or voodooed
regional Jaycees with dissolv-
ed owls’ eyes, lizard tails,
mashed greenbugs and diced
fishworms.
oOo
This is the second big conven-
tion snagged for Levelland for
1961, and both should bring in
(DAY in the SUN-Page 2-A)
Accord sought
on water rate
in dam project
Mayor J. Spencer Ellis and Lev-
elland Canadian River Municipal
Water Authority Directors Forrest
Weimhold and I. F. Lea were in
Plainview Monday attending ses-
sions in which officials hope to
work out water rale, agreements,
for Lamesa, levelland, and Brown-
field — possibly the last stumbling
block to water rate elections in
each of (he participating cities.
Approval in city elections would
clear the stage for approval of the
Canadiar. dam and water distribu-
tion project — an undertaking
which hai bean hanging fire now
for tl years.
It an agreement is reached, elec-
tionr •- ^ach of the cities could
be 'bin the near future.
Lul -l cities, to the north
vavt already agreed on rates.
opened at 10 a.m.
Five petitions bearing signatures
of 98 Sundown residents were filed
June 20 in the county clerk's of-
fice. However; no action on the
petitions was taken prior to Mon-
day. date of the first official meet-
ing of the commissioners following
filing of the petitions.
Four Sundown supporters of the
move for the election were present
for the commissioners court meet-
ing Monday.
DETERMINATION OF THE
nurtiber of signatures qeeded on
the petitioas has been one of the
main problems facing commission-
ers. but County Judge Louis Owens
said Monday that names of 91 qual-
ified residents of Sundown would
be necessary so far as can be
ascertained.
That figure was settled on after
checks of 1959 voting records show-
ed that approximately 393 persons
within the city limits voted in the
presidential election.
According to state law. signa-
ture* of 23 per cent of the number
of voters casting ballots in the last
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Commissioners earlier had esti-
mated that about 90 signatures
would be needed.
QUALIFIED SIGNERS OF THE
petition must have paid their poll
tas and must live within the Sun-
down city limits. If the election is
called, it will be limited to Sun-
down residents.
Backers of the move for the elec-
tion says that they are striving to
bring more business and revenue
into Sundown,
Cuba seeks
UN action
UNITED NATIONS, N Y. (AP)
—Cuba today requested a meeting
of the U.N. Security Council to
consider the worsening dispute be-
tween Cuba and the United States.
A spokesman for the Cuban del-
egation said a formal complaint
| has been handed to the current
president of the 11-nation council.
! Ambassador Jose Correa of Ecua-
' dor.
No details were available im-
mediately.'
Cuban Foreign Minister Raul
Roa arrived in New York Saturday
and has been conferring with
members of the Cuban delegation
on the situation.
The United States delegation
was notified of Cuba's action, but
had no comment pending study of
the complaint
Although details were not dis-
closed. it was taken for granted
the Fidel Castro government
charged the situation is a threat
to international peace.
Two of six
crewmen
being held
MOSCOW (AP)—The Soviet Un-
ion announced today it shot down
an American RB47 reconnaissance
plane July 1 over Soviet territory
and that two crewmen parachuted
to safety and are being ques-
tioned.
This was the first word of the
plane since it disappeared July 1
with six men aboard while on an
electromagnetic mapping flight
over waters north of Norway and
the Soviet Union. *
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
A Gromyko summoned U.S.
Charge D’Affaires Edward Freers
and handed him a note protesting
violation of Sivoet air space by
the plane.
Similar notes were given to Brit-
ain and Norway because the plane
was temporarily based in England
and was expected to land at a
Norwegian air field.
A Soviet announcement said 'the
survivors would be prosecuted
“with full severity of Soviet law.”
The two captured fliers were Lt.
John R. McCone, 38, Tonganoxie,
Kan., and Lt. Freemen B. Olm-
stead, M. Elmira, N.Y.
The note did not mention the
by two days a Moscow announce-'
ment that Francis Powers, pilot of
the downed American U2 spy
plane, would be tried for espio-
nage. Power’s plane was downed
deep inside Soviet Union May 1
while on a high altitude photo-
graphic mission.
The incident kicked up an in-
ternational furor and was used
by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush-
chev to call off the Paris summit j
meeting even Wefore it started.
Today's note said the Soviet air
force picked up a trace of the
plane while it was over the Bar-
ents Sea proceeding toward So- j
viet territory. When it reached the
Soviet liorder at the Kola Penin-j
(B47 DOWN—Page 2A)
Shelter Closes
The Red Cross shelter at
which 100 Negroes ousted from
their homes by high waters last
week had received food and
shelter was closed Monday af-
ter all the evacuee# began mov-
ing back into their houses or
into the homes of friends and
relatives.
However. Red Cross disaster
headquarters still will be main-
tained at the Carver School
caftcria. National Red Cross
authorities have promised re-
habilitation aid sometime this
week for victims of the high
water.
E. W. Boedeker, county Red
Cross disaster chairman, said
that all persons needing help
may contact the disaster head-
quarters.
The last meal for the evac-
uees was served at the cafe-
teria Monday morning.
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ALL THEY COULD
Three of the passengers In a 1955 Stude-
baker pickup involved in a collision near
the intersection of Highway 116 and
West Ave.* Saturday night wait in the
wrecked vehicle during investigation of
-the mishap. Ruby Guthrie, 17, sits under
the steering wheel, while Tommie Ken-
nington peers out the window and Debbie
Kennington waits in the seat. Driver of
DO WAS WAIT
the pickup was Mrs. Pearl C. Kenning-
ton of Lubbock. Ronal O’Conner, a Lev-
elland resident, was driver of the 1960
Ford which hit the pickup. No one was
seriously injured in the smashup. Officers
said the pickup was making a U-turn on
the highway when it was hit.
(Photo by Don Henderson)
By JACK BELL
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The
Democratic National Convention
opens today with Sen. John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts booked
solidly as a sure shot for the
party’s presidential nomination.
Barring some unforeseen last-
hour development. Kennedy
seemed likely to walk away with
the coveted prize in balloting be-
ginning Wednesday. Whether he
would take it on the first count
still was somewhat problematical.
But that he would take it there
remained little doubt.
Crestfallen rivals kept their
campaigns going. But Adlai E.
Stevenson, a two-time winner of
jackpots in this political gamble,
said he was willing to accept a
Cabinet post as a consolation
prize. *
There were some rather strong
indications that supporters of Sen.
Stuart Symington (D-Mo) were
about to toss in the sponge. They
denied this, of course, but the
teeming futility of opposing the
Kennedy juggernaut impressed it-
kelf deeply on some Symington
Arizona na-
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tion is being given in the Syming-
ton camp to releasing the 164 con-
vention votes supporters claim the
Missouri senator has nailed down
on the first ballot.
Any such action could be a fatal
blow to the efforts of Senate Dem-
ocratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson
of Texas to hold the line in the
himself or some other candidate. J question that he has no intention
Langmade is pledged to Kenne- 0f conceding defeat and protested
dy on the first ballot and said he j against what he called efforts to
will stick through the second tally. J stampede delegates into a band-
If additional votes are needed, j wauon nomination.
Langmade said, he is prepared to [ qq,e Democratic leader
vention, which gets under way late
today. - je
Johnson, in the last act os tfaa
show, lectured the Democrats •>
bout the souring condition of a
world in which Soviet Premier Ni-
kita KhrusHchev can threaten te
lauch rockets against this country
if it interferes in Cuba’s undulating
(KENNEDY IS—Page 2A>
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LBJ forces
insist tide
to turn yet
By JOHN CHADWICK
LOS ANGELES (AP) -Sen.
Lyndon Johnson’s backers insisted
today that the tide will turn in
favor of the Texan after two
rounds of Democratic convention
balloting.
They scoffed at talk that Styv
John Kennedy (Mass) already tic
the nomination sewed up.
The picture they professed®!
see was this: .-.L-Ti.
Kennedy has put on an all-out
drive to go over the top on the
first or second roll call but will
fall short of the 761-vote major-
ity. Then, on the third ballot the
scales will begin to tip Johnson’s
way and, once this happens, he
will roll on to victory.
Johnson said in answer to a
AS REBELLIOUS TROOPS TERRORIZE WHITES
Congo Republic asks
UN to restore order
switch to Johnson on the third
counting.
Kennedy backers said they are
confident they will get more than
half of the Symington votes if
they are released.
Former President Harry S. Tru-
man’s double-reverse decision not
to attend the convention after all
of thu
Senate has .predicted he will have
over 500 votes, the bulk of them
from the South, on the first ballot
and will pick up strength from
then on.
Johnson’s supporters said his
delegates can be counted on to
stand fast, and they discounted
the effect of swings toward Ken-
By LYNN HEINZERLING
I (AP) — The Congo government
has asked the United Nations to
intervene and restore order in this
former Belgian teFHtory, Belgian
Minister Ganshof van de Meersh
said today.
The appeal was forwarded Sun-
day after talks between the U.S.
President Joseph Kasavubu, Pre-
mier Patrice Lumumba and Dr.
Ralph Bunche, United Nations
troubleshooter.
No response from the United
| Nations has yet been received.
Rebellious Congolese troops W'ere
Ike outlines new good-will program
of aid for Latin American nations
NEWPORT. R.I. (AP) - Presi-
dent Eisenhower today outlined a
U.S. good-unit aid program for
Latin American nations, but said
Cuba's Castro regime would be
included only if it shows willing-
ness to cooperate.
At a news conference at the
summer White House. Eisenhow-
er declined to go to any extent
into the Cuban crisis. For ex-
ample. he brushed aside a ques-
tion about his reaction to a hint
by Cuba's President that Cuba
might demand the United States
abandon its Guantanamo naval
base
would wait for such a demand be- ! State Christian A. Herter had con-
fore having any comment. ! ferred for nearly two hours on the
Eisenhower's only comment on Cuban crisis and the new U.S.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- j plan to bolster economic and so-
chev's pledge last Saturday of all-1 cial standards in Latin American
out support to the Fidel Castro re-
gime, was that he regarded
Khrushchev's remarks as very
crude.
The Khrushchev pledge brought
from Eisenhower over the week-
end a warning that the United
States would not tolerate the es-
tablishment of a regime in Cuba
dominated by international com-
munism
Eisenhower met with news rn
The President declared he, today after he and Secretary oil
nations.
Eisenhower announced that he
has instructed Herter to confer
with representatives of these na-
tions. If additional money is need-
ed from Congress to finance the
aid program, he Will ask for it,
Eisenhower said.
In outlining the plan, the Presi-
dent took no specific note of the
tense situations regarding Cuba
In a prepared stateme it. he was
(IKE OUTLINES—Page 2A) near
reported (terrorizing whiles today
in LiiluaJaourg and Stanleyville and
fleets of planes were rushed to
help European refugees flee the
tori) new African nation.
Van der Meersh saw Congolese
officials to arrange for entratice
of Belgian troops -into Matadi and
Boma, two Coyigo River ports west
of Leopoldville where Negro sol-
diers for a time halted the de-
parture' ~of ships. A spokesman
said the Belgian troops main job
will be to get supply lines open
and to restore normal rail traffic
and shipping.
The Congo appeal to the United
Nations was first urged last week
by many Belgians when disorders
broke out in Leopoldville.
(In Geneva. U.N. Secretary-Gen-
eral Dag Hammarskjold cut short
a visit to Geneva to return to
New York headquarters because
of the Congo situation. He went
to Geneva for a meeting of the
U.N. Economic and Social Coun-
cil).
Belgian paratroops arrived in
the trouble centers of Luluabourg
and Stanleyville to try (o control
the rampaging troops.
Van der Meersh said Negro
troops withdrew from Luluabourg
after Belgian troops landed there.
At Stanleyville, however, radio re-
ports said Negro soldiers still oc-
cupied the airfield
Luluabourg. in the center of the
Congo and once intended to be-
come the republic's new capital,
eporied still in a state of
panic, with mutineers at-
cast a deep pall of gloom over j nedy Sunday from Illinois, Calif-
the Symington camp. Symington ornia and Iowa.
The unofficial Associated Pres*
tally showed Kennedy’s promised
first ballot support rising .t«
620(4 votes. Johnson’s tally wax
273. It takes 761 delegate votes
to win the nomination.
The Johnson camp said they
had not figured on any votes from
the Illinois delegation, which
dismissed the decision with the
comment that “Mr. Truman al-
ways does what he thinks is
best.”
All of the presidential hopefuls
I came together Sunday night in a
lacking white civilians and loot-1 ,f>Plca| Hollywood setting - a
ing homes and stores.
At least 10 Europeans were
killed irrrihe weekend of violence.
Official Belgian, reports said three
were killed and one wounded when
festooned Beverly Hills hotel ban-
quet room in which
space was at a premium.
Stevenson, greeted by a slorm
of applause, was lyrical. Tensely,
Kennedy ripped off an old cam-
iie.t | threw 59Vi of its 69 voles to
Kennedy. They said Johnson will
get a sizeable chunk of Cali-
fornia’s 81 votes despite Gov.
Edmund Brown’s declaration for
Kennedy.
They also contended Johnson
African rebels besieged hundreds ( paign speech at a furious gait,
of whites in a hotel in Luluabourg Symington played it down, lie
Sunday; They were rescued by said nobody had done him wrong j w-|| some of Iowa’s 26
U.N. HELP—Page 2A) 'in the preliminaries of the con- votM notwithstanding Gov. Hers-
| chel Loveless’ dropping of his
GROUP RETURNS HOME SUNDAY favorite son role to support the
Massachusetts senator.- ~
Levelland's guard unit
wins 'superior' in field
Levelland's National Guard Unit, the unit from receiving the coveted I
it's men dog-tired from two weeks
of intensive training at North Fort
Hood, returned home Sunday morn-
ing after winning superior ratings
for its training in the field.
The unit's convoy of trucks roll-
ed into Levelland after a morning
drive from Abilene, where the
group had bivouached (or the night.
Battery Commander Capt.
Charlie Bird led his unit out of
the North Fort Hood cantonment
shortly after noon Saturday on the
first leg of the trip home.
The Unit received a silver cer-
gold certificate, for a superior
work in all its activities.
Training in the field, the in - j
spector general's inspection and j
the last annual armory inventory
for the basis for the award of |
the certificate.
' |
Guardsmen checked in all their
personal, and company gear at the i
local armory at the fairgrounds j
before heading to their individual j
homes for a well-deserved rest.
Sgt. T. A. Cowan, permanent!
duty non-commissioned officer with
the unit summed up the feeling j
of Ihe citizen soldiers with these j
We're sure proud to be j
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tiflcate at the completion of the
camp, giving it an overall rating | words
of “excellent " Only an “excel I home
lent’ nilher than a "sup-rinr"! The unit meets for its next re-
rating in- the las' inspector gen gular training session on Monday
•ral a inspection u> January kept)night, July is.
Dear Editor:
I note that ever}’ day or two
some other large wheel in poli-
tics says we are sitting ducks
for Russia if we don't spend
more money on defense.
Mv blown - top neighbor xays
this is a downright slam on oqg
Pentagonians who have ded^
rated their lives to spending
ns strong.
Says as long as we have got
championship • type Navy buy-
ers who can put out $21 each
for 25 - cent hrmp sockets wn
are going to be mighty hard tn
whip in •
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