The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 129, Ed. 1 Monday, March 3, 1958 Page: 1 of 6
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QH ■ .VOLUME XVII, NUMBER 129 PRICE: DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c LEVELLAND, TEXAS ASSOCIATED PFLESS (AP) EXTRA! MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1958
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M.G. KENNEDY. TOM UPSHAWKILLED IN LIGHT PLANE CRASH
_
HomneaHimai presijent Eisenhower Pledges
For Civil Rights - - . . « i
Commission Post To Ease Armament Burden
CRITICALLY HURTTWO YEARS AGO
mankind's self-de-
togethcr
is "an in-
economic
of every-
anything else.
A biographical sketch run in the
Levelland Daily Sun News in Jan-
uary of 1957 reads, "He's not one
of these high-line jumping dare de-
vils who gets special thrills from
of skimming house tops or slow' rolls
ver-
Up-
way
DR. M. G. KENNEDY
. . . His Second Crafah
FATAL CRASH WRECKAGE—Two prominent Levelland men, druggist Tom A. Upshaw and Dr. M. G. Kennedy,
were killed Sunday night when this Piper Tri-Pacer crashed about 10 miles southwest of Levelland. The plane, own-
ed and piloted ^“Upshaw, was completely demolished when it slammed into, the ground, evidently almost headon.
The men were returning to Levelland from Odessa when the accident occured. The plane was not found until Monday
morning. The bent propeller of the plane, foreground, in dicates the motor was still running at the time of the crash.
(Staff Photo)
Wadsworth will not
hold a White House office but will
of State
Dulles in future disarmament ne-
gotiations.
Wadsworth, who is retaining his; Stassen was a special assistant to;
position as deputy U. S. represen-i Eisenhower,
tative to the U. N., was appointed
to the disarmament-post which serve under Secretary
Harold E. Stassen resigned to try
for Republican nomination for gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania. Whereas
consideration the six nominations; t)lrals
made by President Eisenhower;
to the new'ly created Civil Rights;
Commission.
The nominees are: John A, Han-1
nah, president of. Michigan State
University; John S. Battle, for-
mer governor of Virginia; Doyle
Elam Carlton, former governor of
Florida; the Rev. Theodore M.
Dame University; Robert G. Stor-
ey, dean of the law school at
Hesburgh. president of Notre
Southwestern Methodist University
and J. Ernest Wilkins, an assist-
ant secretary of labor.
The meeting was closed to the
public and press but committee,
aides reported four Southern sen-
ators voted against the nomina-
tions of Hannah, the "Rev. Hes-
burgh and Wiikins. These were
Chairman Eastland (D-Miss) and
Sen.s Johnston (D-SCi, McClel-,
lan (D-Arki and Ervin <D-NC).
TOM UPSHAW JR.
. . .. Piloted Plane
FRIENDS VISIT HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Plemmons;
of Burkburnett arrived here Mon- ; move
day for a two-day visit with Rev
and Mrs. Roy McCoy.
Po’o Caswell, a Hockley County farmer who lived about a quarter mile southeast of
field, spotted the craft and called the sheriff’s office
Two prominent Levelland men—one of whom had survived a serious plane crash two
years earlier — were killed Sunday night when the light plane in which they were flying
dammed into the ground a mile and a half southeast of Fairview Community,
The badly-mutilated bodies of Levelland Druggist Tom A. Upshaw Jr. anti Dr. M. G.
Kennedy, a dentist, were pulled from the crumpled four-place Piper Tri-Pacer shortly
after 11 a.m. Monday.
Hockley County Sheriff Weir Clem fixed the time of the crash at 9:22 p.m. Sunday.
This was the time the clock on the instrument panel of the plane, which Upshaw owned
and was piloting, had stopped.
The wrecked plane and the bodies of the two men, who were apparently killed in-
stantly, had remained undiscovered until fog, which had shrouded the South Plains Sunday
] night and Monday had cleared.
; where the plan ? came down in a
I about 10:15 a.m.
Clem said that an alert had
don? toward organizing an aerial
WASHINGTON 'JP> — The Su- soldiers was described as excel
preme Court ruled today that the] ]ent. Harmon received an "un- d("
Army cannot take into account; desirab]e., disch but this was |
arms burden not a soldiers preinduction activities cha ]ater
I irt Hn/iidinrr tvnn Hic/'hori’n I ’
; charge "under honorable
trtonsT’ Abramowitz received
undesirable" discharge.
Reportedly, Upshaw had called his wife from Midland,
teHing her that she could meet him between 9:30 and 10
o’clock at the Levelland airport.
Clem sent out the alert after one of the friends con-
tacted him about 9 a.m. Monday.
Some Levelland residents got their first hint that some-
thing was wrong when they tried to enter Upshaw Drug Mon-
day morning and found that it hadn’t opened for business.
It had been Upshaw’s morning to open the store, and em-
ployes said that he would normally have called- if he had
been in a position to do so.
Clem accompanied by Deputies
G- T. Arrington and Pat McCul-
loch. rused to the scene of the
crash after the cal) from Caswell.
Only two or three of a steady
stream of spectators who were to
rush to the area where the plane
had crashed were there when Clem
arrived.
The sheriff said the plane had ■
apparently headed almost straight1
into the ground, with its engine still
running.
The craft pitted the ground deep-
ly and bounced about 25 feet com-;
ing to rest on its back.
Today’s paper is an extra
edition, being published in ord-
er to bring local residents as
quickly as I possible the story
of the planlp crash in which
Dr. M. G. Kennedy and Tom
Upshaw Jr., were killed. The
Daily Sun ” News, published
five days each week,' is not
ordinarily published on Mon-
days.
I WASHINGTON (.P President,
WASHINGTON LW The Senate j £jSCnhower said today the United
Judiciary Committee today ap-l states is determined to exert ev-
proved and _sem to the Senate for; ery cffold ease the burden and
. i of heavy armaments
I "from the daily lives of all the
1 peoples of the world."
Eisenhower so assured ; James!
! J. Wadsworth, the administra-!
I tion's new disarmaments negotia-!
I tor, in a letter made public by
; the White House.
i The President wrote that no
I problem is more vital than that of
I "finding a way to relieve mankind
i.of the burden of devising, devel-
oping and maintaining arms which'
could lead to
struction.”
He said the ------ ------- —,
only endangers lives, but, because!'J1 deciding the type of discharge;
of its evergrowing cost,
creasing threat to the
wellbeing and security
one."
"The United States,
with like-minded nations, is deter-
mined to exert every effort to as--
sur that Obstacles, procedural or Clark dissented. j
substantive, not continue to iner-; The decision specifically applied]
rupt our genuine striving to re- to appeals by John Harmon HI,
these threats from the daily New York law student, and
lives of all he peoples of the Howard Abromowitz, Brooklyn reported todaj’ by
world," Eisenhower said. psychologist, whose service as] urban Bal Harbour.
already been put out for the plane and work was being
„ „ search when the cal! came. The CAA had been called
' and was in the process of checking airports where Upshaw might have landed after tak-
ing off at the Midland-Odessa airport between 7 and 8 p.m. Sunday.Clem said he had learned indirectly about the possibility ‘
that Upshaw was missing from friends whom Mrs. Upshaw I
had called.
he is to receive.
An unsigned opinion said under;
the authority Congress gave the;
Army secretary he may consider1
only the soldier’s military record; n r_
in the Army in issuing discharges. ’**•5 QTe JUOIen
The court's vote was 8-1. Justice’ MIAMI BEACH '.Pt Theft
procedural or Clark disse
Thomas A. Upshaw, Jr., who was
killed in the crash of his airplane
sometime Sunday night, was a sori
of the president of Stamford's First
National bank. Tom Upshaw Sr.
A businessman who had ten
; years of banking experience him-
jself; he was a person of varied
interests. He was a flying enthus-
■! iast, an avid hunter and fisherman,
I and a man who loved a good game
I of golf.
In addition to this, because he
enjoyed growing birds, had raised
quail, pheasants and other game
birds in his own back yard. Plan-
ning to release them on his fath-
er's ranch near Aspermont, a
tible hunting paradise, which
shaw expected to keep that
with his game bird efforts.
Since all of the things he en-
joyecTas well as his busiriess, were
] of a time consuming nature, Up-
; shaw was a busy man. Some
I things just naturally had to go un-
jne. . .Usually it was golf.
Upshaw who owned a Piper Tri-
dis-1 pacer, a four place plane,
condi-j probably enjoyed flying better than
an
Pre-induct ion Avfivities Have No
Bearing on Discharge, Court Rules
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Craft Found at Fairview;
Fog Blamed for Tragedy
Kennedy Survived
Earlier Plane Crash
MIAMI BEACH <P>
$156,000 in cash and jewels from j at low altitudes. Upshaw tries to
the hotel penthouse of Mr. and usc his plane only for going some-
Mrs. Titus Haffa" of Chicago was;"^Cie'
police of sub-'
Upshaw Enjoyed
Flying Better
Than Anything
strapped in their seats and the
safety belts had to be cut in order' A McKon2ic. 32, his four-year-old
to remove them. I daughter. Danna, and Bobby Lee
Bodies of both men were badly, Johnston, an aerial dusting comp-
broken. Clem said that Upshaw's; any employe died in a crash four
head was almost cut in two. | miles south of Levelland on Oct.
The tragedy ended a day of fly-; 3, 1957.
ing, most of which had apparent-; Ironically, this week’s crash was
ly been done simply for pleasure. I the second for Dr. Kennedy, who
Airport Manager C. V. Brown; was critically injured in a small
said that Upshaw had flown for a; plane wreck at the Midland - Odes-
He used the plane in connection couple of hours Sunday morning, sa air terminal on Nov. 10. 1955.
with business trips, or if he want--and that he and Kennedy had tak- The sit? of this earlier crash, in
' (UPSHAW ENJOYED—Page 3) (PLANE CRASH—Page 3) Which Dr. G. V. Edgar and Walter
ly and bounced about 25 feet com-1 The plane crash in which local [ B. Kirk, both of Levelland, were
ing to rest on its back. ’ dentist Dr. M. G. Kennedy and! a'so injured is believed to be the
Bodies of the two men were druggist Tom Upshaw Jr., were: field from which Dr. Kennedy and
wedged behind the crumpled plane j killed was the oeconc air crash1 Upshaw, an accomplished pilotmotor, and Clem said that he had'|Within a year involved] who Prided himself on being able
to hook his patrol car to the motor planes from the Levelland airport’ DOCTOR SURVIVED—Page 3)
and pull it off of them in order to and claimed lives of local resi-: ’
get to the bodies. Both were still dents. TVTR A FFVITIAAI
Former Airport Manager James, tjf I If A 'frill I II IN
TZiCABIN OF WRECKED PLANE—Sheriff Weir Clem looks dejectedly at the smashed
Tabin of a Piper Tri-Pacer which crashed near Fairview Sunday night, killing two Lev-
. Jalland business men, Tom A. Upshaw, Jr. and Dr. M. G. Kennedy. An automobile was
' Used to pull the plane motor and smashed instrument panel of the plane (foreground)
aw&y from the seats so the bodies of the men could be removed.
ENGINE KNOCKED FROM MOUNTING — The motor of the Piper Tri-Pacer (cov-
ered with dirt near the front of body) was knocked from its mountings and bent to
the side of the plane’s body. The plane evidently slammed into the ground nose-first.
There was no evidence that Upshaw, who was piloting the plane, had tried to land.
(Staff Photos)
IMPACT SHOWN—The impact of the crash crumpled
the wings and body of the light plane into a V-shaped
mass, while the tail section was almost untouched. The
wreckage was discovered about 10:15 a.m. Monday.
. 1 ■extra edition lbs Levelland Daily Sun News
“WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES” — Byron
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