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"NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY DAILT NEWSPAPER"
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RRRCKENRIDC.E. TEXAS—Tl'F.SDAY. MAY 24. 1955
PRICE DAILY 8 CENTS. SPNDAT 18 CENTS
Bill To Raise
Tuition Fees
Is latrodueed
By O. R. LLOYD JR.
N '1*1*1—A bill raising
*1
AISTI!
tuition fee* for students at state
•uppoited collegei and unhertities
Iikiii to a semester won
finai approval of the House Mon
day
The measure, sponsored by Rep.
J l Gillham of Brownfield. re
Cei'ed T r.4 final parage and now
K'>e« to the Senate. The proposal
carries the recommendation of
Goa Allan Shiver*.
A tax bill, meanwhile, wax out
en the Senate floor after gaining
committee approval Monday —
some t'J'> million shy of meeting
the state's money needs.
The tuition fee bill. a> ailed
Monday ns a "tax bill" when it
was given tentative apprmal.
brought opposition from Rep
James A Turman of Other.
Rejects I'rspssil
The House leiected a proposal
by Turman to allow students un
der finanrial hardship to execute
a pron i*«ory note and pay the
tuition within five year*, and a
ae< ond plan to fix tuition fees at
n«it fail, boosting it gradually
— f?> n ye«r until it reaches $5©
per semester.
H' 'ever, a proposal by Turman
to g-.\- Texas residents priority if
any restriction in enrollment was
pot int<> effect was ruled out of
order.
Turtmin. now studying toward a
doctor's debtee in eduration. said
tha' in 1947 he worked for 10 cents
en hour while going to school,
"believe it or not."
"It take, it lot of dimes ta make
£25 for an imi'sw in tuition."
Turman «.|d<-d
Cite* Increased Cfsli
Gillham -aid the tuition fee in
crease was needed to support in-
creased cost* of education and ex-
panded enrollment
The Hou*e al o -4 toa tt
a proposed constitutional amend*
ment to allow mox^uito loimoi
districts to lev* a tax if authorised
b> a i Mr of the people
Tlie measure, sponsored by Rep.
A K Schwa rt I of Galveston,
would alio* a maximum levy of 25 '
cents pei $li"' valuation.
Ren Tom Cheatham of Cuero
called it "just another tax bill " |
He said mo-'l'nto control districts
can he formed under present law
and added Srhw arti' proposal
"will turn thein footloose and
fancv free "
Senate committee action on the
tax hill left the upper chamber
when, it «taited N'o immediate so-
lution to the critical tax and
■pending problem was in sight.
o i
Ntw Pastor Comts
To Local Clmrcli
Rev Balwin A. Verhelst. C. I.
C M e p -«-'«-d to leave today to
nssum hi* duties as Chaplain aI
S Joseph's Hospital in Ft
Worth
F >!hrr Raid1.', in came to Rreck-
enr dxe Nov. 13, 19.S2. and has
served a* trustor of Sarred Heart
Citholir f'hurrh here. St. Mary'f
in Gntha m rind St. Theresa in
Oin v
Father Baldwin is being suc-
ceed* I here bv Re* Joseph Van
Winkle, who comes fr *m St
J"«eph's in Ft. Worth.
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| ROYAL VIEWS KHU\| ( AK Tol* IVin«t**e Anne follows the lewd
I of her brother. I'rifwt* <'li.nU>, <ui«i >wrainblM to the top of an
! Lngilsh station v.ajf -n. the U *t* r t« * '*• the European Horse Trials
i at Windsor Great f'aik, ml.- r. hri|(land.
City Receives .37
As Farewell Fall
Rn.J.N.Ioore
Bies In Bellas
Early Tuesday
Mrs. John W. Moore, 8! , tnothei J
• f Mn. P. W. Pitier of Brecken
ridce, died at 1 a. m. Tuesday in
Dallas following a lengthy iUner-. I
Mrs. M ..re had been in ill health
for a number of years and about j
one month ago fell and suffered:
a broken hip.
She was born November 11, I8tto I
in Waco and had been a ineiiibei !
of the First Christian Church nio-.t I
of her life. Prior to living in Dal- !
las she made her home in Lubbock i
Funeral services are to be held j
at 10 a. in. Wednesday, May 25. in
the Melton Funeral Home Chape!
with Rev. William H. Vaughn, pas-
tor of the First Christian Church
in Albany, officiating.
Burial, under the direction of
Melton Funeral Home, is to follov.
in the Breekenridge Cemetery and
is to be at the side of her husband,
who preceded her in death in 1949.
Survivors in addition to Mis.
Pitier are two sons, Guy Moore of
Mexico City and Roger Moore of
Washington. D. C., three grand-
children and three great-grand-
rhildrcn.
Pallbearers are to be Blako
Johnson Sr.. Bob Owens, R. I. M<
Arron. Homer Tudor, Eugene
Thompson and Grady Camp.
Dr.Robt. E. Cone
Dies In Galveston
GALVESTON «*P>—Dr. Robeit
E. Cone, nationally-known urolo-
gist and professor of urology at
the University of Texas
DOWNTOWN SECTION OF CITY
TO SPARKLE WITH PAINT UPs
Thirty Signed j
By Committee
For Paiet Jobs
School in Galveston,
Medical
died early
Yank Climbers
Found Bead On
Peak In Britain
FORT WILLIAM, Scotland. <CP i
—Two young American mountain j
climbers were found dead Tuesday 1
in a deep gully of Britain's tallest !
peak.
Royal Air Force rescue crews
found the mountaineers roped to-
gether on the north buttresses of j
4,406-foot Ben Nevis, a rugged1
peak whose slopes plunge sharply
into disguised crevasses.
The crews had set out at dawn I
Tuesday when it was feared the!
Americans were lost in a blizzatd
on the mountain. They had not
been seen since Sunday morning
when they began the treacherous
ascent.
The dead men were Fiederick i
C. Hadden of Pasadena. Calif.. J
and Bert Woodhurn of San Ga- '
briel, Calif., both 21 year-old stu-|
dents at the University of Edin-
huigh.
The rescue party immediately
started back down the snow-cov-
ered mountain with the bodies.
Daylong searching Monday by
police, volunteers and trained res-
SEEN or HEARD }
By C. M. H.
City to make available HalMoier
and msintainer far ♦ scant Ma
• nrk •• <•* ' of M.25 to '".5* per
hour (irnfi'f Jordan said
Glenn I utlreM said he walked «*er
parts of West Breekenridge jet-
•erda* evening and saw mostly
• omen doing the yard swk
Masons to Meet tonight at T:M
o'clock in regular session.
R"b Whitney and Fdgar Martir
returned Tommy Barton. Gaylon
Grav and Buddy Hoffman to
Bre. ken ridge from Young county
< r> rooipl.iint "f nibbing the B "*f-
V ell cabin on P. K. Lake
Bureau insurance men still here
ediusting hail claims .... Earl
B'arkstock arrested Monday and
charged w.th dnving while intoxi-
cated. second offense.
Al Silver here Sailtlf, said be
expects to move some machinery
here about Saturday after next,
applicants ta be notified in time
to attend the school Sit Clark
•ays that when she laafca at same
farmer resident* here nat see* bl
tears she wonders what abe laaba
like ta them Mrs. Dayle New-
comb has a Mark, crippled C
Spaniel that baa been •• the
for about week—her phane Maker
la 7 J.W.
Tom Mashburn said his party
caught lots of channel cat fish on
line at his place on Possum King-
dom l«.ke .... t'laude Peeler said
add the painting of the Alexan-
der building to list shown else-
where on this page today ....
More new cars aeen here than in
year*, and largeat crowd seen in
town Saturday than in many
Breekenridge Monday morning
■ received .3" of an inch of ram as
Isort of a farewell to a aerie* ■!
[ falls that registerd •> inches f ••
the month of May.
The railis did not quite put tlv
i water over th** spillway at |jtk>-
Daniel, but came to within about
; five inches of th>- top. giving i
. total of nearly fiv. |«-«-t put iiit
Mystery Shrouds
Bisappearance
Of Texas Woman
HALE CENTER. T. x <l l" A
' sheriff and the husband of a 21
year old expectant mothei w ho
1 mysteriously disappeared nearly
three weeks ago bHn-ie stu is
dead, possibly mmdered
Haie County Sha iiff T-d \n
drews said Tuesday h* ^a- p«-ison
i ally convnne<l that th< attractive
l young wife of r W (Bill) I'haies
'Was muideie«i. II. i husb.ind. who
said she was carrying about ll,'"*l
cash at the tune >h> d -app^.iied
said he felt sure his wife a. - ilead
Pkares .-aid his wif. told liim
last fail that "someon. was going
to kill her" But ITiares said lie
laughed it off and that .4u- hadn't
mentioned it since tht n
' Officers found thi .il>.ind"n>d
family automobile in which Mrs.
Phares disappeai'd th.- night of
May 4. and said that a piecr- ol
matting was tipped tioiu the tiunk
fioor. Th«- car was found ..bout i
half mile east of Ha e t'enter on
{ a dirt road.
Phares said he heard hn w ife
talking on the telephon. about sun
down the da\ of hci dls.^ppeai
ance. He said h * h.«i nin ieml the
telephone th.- day l for«- .uai that
a woman had a.->k*-d !o, h . wii.
He said his l>i*in Ainei.ean ife
talking in Spam-h ovet th. tel.-
phone the day of hei di ip( :u
ance. and told him ilmut .<n hour
later that i>he w i, g- .n^ to town
from their farm hoi,,.
I"ha res said hr> wif.- fre.|.-fitly
carried large sums of mo|i> y.
"I used to i airy it," th< I y- ar
old farmer explaine.t. ••! ..t I had
been letting her do it h. a s.- it
made her happy."
Phares, who formei ly farmed
near Lorvnzo. okla . b«'for.> n ovmg
to Texas, said h«- arid hi- wife
were married last Septeinbt r at
Clo\is, N. M.
Sheriff Andrews said he had no
leads, but that he was m ikmg in
investigation on the th>t>ry the
woman was murdered
the stoim clouds have moved east-
t"i two ye.us without further rain-
fall.
Monday La mesa registered a
tinet nun rain, but us a whole
'.he storm ctucts have moved eas-t-
w aid.
Hie storms hit hardest at East
lYxas. liouisiana and Mississippi
ruesday. ( omrnumcations were
washed out. city streets were
fio-Kled, ami tot riadic winds tore
down ouiiilin*s.
Tne heat crackled with more
.-tonus farther east and. at Tani-
pi, l-ia., nine-year-old Syd McDuf-
ne was killed by a lightning bolt
as lie playd in his back yard
duiirig a thunderstorm. His seven-
year-old sister, standing only a
lew feet away, was unhurt.
In the hejit of the storm belt,
(tin uwood. Miss., was swamped
by 4.7 inches of rain and Shreve-
port. La., had J.tio.
Streets were washtd out in Ty-
!<:, Tex., \icksbuig. Miss., and
Shreveport, La. where rising w„
;i-is lorced some rsidents from
th> ir homes. Debris blocked four
Giienwood street® and communica-
tions were cut for a time between
l^igaii.-port Miss., and East Texas.
lornaoo Deatroyes Four Houhcs
At least one tornado cork-
sciewed out of the thunderheuds,
lipping across a farm and wooded
• •!"!! near Arcadia. La. One pel -
• • n was injured, four tenant hous-
were destroyed, and timber was
ii veled.
M re h.gh winds ripped at Tex-
as, sweeping away a large ha/
barn neai Vvharton but leaving the
hay mound untouched. At Tyler a
11 emeiMlous black cloud shut out
the sunlight as a violent wind
-tonn blew over a large drive-in
movie screen.
Meanwhile, winds clocked up to
•.'>-miles-per hour demolished all
airplane and hangar at the Vicks-
buig municipal airport. A land-
slide blocked Highway 61 between
Vicksburg and Waltersville, Miss.
The storms decreased in vio-
lence farther north but were
enough to strip leaves off
•rees and damage loofs with hail
iri the Panora, Iowa, region. Light-
ning sparked a number of fire* in
the Holland. Mich., area.
In kan-as. two and a quarter
inches of hail fell as a tornado
' unne; menaced Wichita, and But-
i. M got inches of rain.
Tuesdav morning after a long ill- s'lufa'^ ,to tUi"
nes He was 61 1 t,ar^ Americans. One RAF
Dr. Cone, a native of Galvest n. <T"W workf^ until. midnight and
was prominently known in nation- j th^n «"amped "« in an advance
al medical centers. He had baen hu* for a head start at
with the Texas University medical *'a"n Tuesday.
school since 1921). Authorities said the climbers
Dr. * "one also was an outstand- previous experience and took
ing athlete during his college days, plenty ..f equipment and first-aid
and immediately after graduation j"'* when they set out on the four
he played for 'one year with the j h°^ir northerp ascent.
Philadelphia
Athletics
baseball Hadden and Woodburn drove
team. i here Saturday from Edinburgh
He was a star pitcher at Tesa- a'«l fM>t the next morning from
for the late Coach Billy Diadi's' the Glen Nevis youth hostel, usual
famous baseball team that in 1914 starting point for the climb,
won 23 straight games. Ben Nevis is a gentle tuck tricky-
After one year with the A's, Dr. i**ak of Appalachian proportions
Cone decided to return to Texas j overlooking beautiful Lock Lo-
to study medicine. He also was ] mond. Although well below Alpine
well-known in recent years as an ' height, its upper reaches are bare
amateur golfer .having won many I of trees and snowstorms in
trophies in that game. | know n throughout the year.
Thm Cities Ccmcd Vaccine Program
CALLS TO EH CMFKHM
Ml SMK HRIUSE KMI
(By UNITED PRESS) .ordered that all Salk inoculation!:
Calls for government action to : stop until further safety tests can
end the confusion over the Salk be made.
anti-polio vaccine increased Tues-
day as three cities cancelled their
mass inoculation programs.
Meanwhile, an Idaho man died
of bulbar polio after his two chil-
dren had received Salk shots and
a United Press survey showed that
99 children had come down with
polio after receiving inoculations
The mass inoculation of school
children w-as halted in Brockton.
Mass., Milwaukee, Wis., and Ala-
meda, Calif. Los Angeles and at
least 10 states have already post-
poned their programs.
In each of the three cities which
acted Monday, confusion and in-
decision were named as the
causes.
Doctors Refine ta Co-operate
The Alameda
COLD CASH VANISHES ALONG COLD TRAIL Bank cashiei
Jesse Woods stands at the door of the Jacksonville, Ala., First
National Bank, from which five holdup men scooped up be-
fore making an apparently clean getaway. Woods' wife and two
children were held as hostages while Woods was taken to the bank
until th robbery was accomplished. (NEA Telephoto)
Buss Intensify
Brive Against
B. S. In Italy
Yankees. Cats
Winning Teams
In Play Monday
Downtown Breekenridge is pledg-
ing a pain up campaign that prom-
ises to set an all-time record for
a concentrated movement, and the
residential section is following su.t
with lawn mowings and cleanup
that will rival any such campaign
ever staged here.
This was the general picture a*
the clean up-paint up-fix up drive
got under way in full force Mon-
day., although many in the resi-
| ilential area did not wait until
j Monday, but started Sunday.
Official reports had not be n
: received from the residential areas,
i which have been subdivided w ith
j leaders, but from workers in the
| downtown section it was reported
' that about thirty have signed to
| paint wood work, paint a sign or
I even to paint a-building,
j Pledges were being received by
a committee representing the
Breekenridge Rotary and Lions
Clubs. Those reported working
i Monday included Claude Peelei,
I A. H Miller, Don Crenshaw. Ber-
I nard Blair and E. D. McDowell
From the report made by Clauile
| Peeler it appears that the entire
downtown area will he brightened
' up. It was indicated that the Wooi-
worth and Bowen Drug buildings
will be painted all over and the
Sager Hotel is to be brightened up.
Work Signed For
The following signed to paint
either in part or as a whole:
Sitger Hotel. Barnes Williams,
trim, Man's Shop, Hub Clo-
tiers plans in architect's hands for
ultra modem front, Glove factor;-
around to Guvton's trims, Bui'1'
Hotel, trim all the w-ay aroun l,
Miller building, KSTB sign an all
wood trim. Miller also putting
modern front in for Communiu-
Publ ir Service. Texas Electric Se>
vice Company has just complete,!
ROME fT.P>—Soviet Russia in-1 - la new front
fwM"'!? |d"r 10 ''":,blTh !'i The First National Bank Yank- Peeler Press, all wood trim,
dav that avvay for what ap- Western Auto, all wood trim and
niav follow ft tho f'nit.. I Ht-.t . - P"ars •'"•other go«)d season, defeat new sign, Walker estate, varan*
i t j t Km a ' *• | tht* BtcckeiirifJffo Amrican Gi- building next to Ruirh. an aII wo«vj
rai^ soldier* here ' ants Monday evening in Jaycce j trim. First National Bank a ne
•p.' c , • ♦ r* • ♦ ♦ l*ark by a wor** of l.'i to 2. i entnince. Frank Robbins. wfv d
The Soviet Communist party r,.. ; . . . , £ o • %> a tl a
newspaper Pravda fired an add,' , 1 h" \ "'kees took the lead with ■ work on Reeces bar, Breckennd«.
tional broadside against the ' ""f the first inning and [ Cleaners, wood tnm. Good Kat>
harassed
Mario
held
lead all the way. Th r-
d government of Premiei , .
Scelba and Moscow radio ^'l. rs l -i-form«l for the Yankee.-,
beamed it abroad in the growing
itks out" i
Problem of "Carriers*
Health Commissioner E. R.!
Krumbiegel naid the city wanted
to be sure that children did net
catch polio from the vaccine an-l
that they did not become "carri-
ers of the disease."
The problem of whether Salk-
fC ontinued on Page 2)
New Indictments
Filed On Giles
Fiv
By UNITED PRESS
new
Bakery all wood trim.
Anthony Building new fron*
Jimmy Martin. Pat Movies and Be i work and on office. A6P building
campaign to "keep the Yanks out' M<-Mahan w ith Gerald' Machen the , new entrance and wood trim. Peeler
of Italy : Martin was th«' winning Office Supply Building touch iid
There were reports American' P',, h( P- "• '• Winn's Store trim and sign
troops would be shifted to th<> Darrell (Josuirk and Tommy i *v°rk. Chevrolet trim around b in
north of Italy from Austria when ; r)*>nni !I ojwnrd as th^ batteiy for inff, huildintr occupied by Dr. Pro
four-power occupation of that th * <Ji-nts, < < swick b inj? reliev ; ^enza and Happy Andrews all wo« i
country ends. , ed bv Kennv Palmer, (toswick was i trim. Jai*\is building all wood ti*o\
Sticks to Ptmition credited as the losing pitcher. Tolle building wood trim, Brecken
Despite the bitter Communist In th« minor league game Breck- r|dge American trim.
propoganda blasts. the hard enridge Insurance *'ats t Mik the' f*;inK Christian will trim tb-ii
pressed Red-busting premier was lead over the 11(|<| Fellows Sports building and the Safeway buildinr
the first inning and with « awnings to be painted. Firestone
. ' to paint upstairs and down,
way foi j fve|er said every place contae'
ed readily agreed to the work lis-
ed. A few remained to be cor
taeted. A committee w-ill go ♦.
inning
scores and held it all the
j the Cats to win 17 to l't.
Batteries for the Cats
- Pr
reported sticking firmly to his p«
sition that Italy must continue to
march as u North Atlantic Treaty-
Organization ally of the West.
The Communist campaign was
an open attempt to extend behind
the NATO front lilies the "neu-
trality-Austria accepted in ex- . (.;„.h,.tt ;!rMj Thomas Speer. Sulli
change for freedom fn>n. mi itar, v. hlt ht ru in th d
nirir rBr^ occupation, informM politwal I fran|c,
criminal indictments linked it with this week's , sla,,,.1l to play tonight are the
n t , ..sit to Belgrade by a Soviet dele- ''|,,ri; ( N x and the War-
er BajK'om ( iles, stemming from ffa^jon and pr« dict *d the * « !*1 r#i ' < ard;nal>. In th
j.nd M il Dollins. Batteries for the
Sports writ' Mike Sullivan, R« bby
program came to naniing formed l-in.l Commission j vjgit to k« Igrade by a Soviet d> lr
a halt when 24 doctors who wer "" ■
co-operate.
The doctors said indecision on
the part of government officials
had created confusion in the pub-
lic mind and the public had not
been properly informed about the
revolutionary vaccine.
At Brockton, shots which wer ■
to have started Thursday
Cardinals in
the minors,
o
AltF Cuts Coffee
Price Four Cents
"A nation-wide reduction of four '
cents a pound on its own brand-
of coffee was announced todev
by A4kP Food Store*.
Thew reductions, company offi-
cials said, bring premium coffee
prices down to the lo*mt point in
approximately five years. Just
year ago AAP coffee was selling
I for as high as 91.17 per pound.
The new prices per pound effec-
tive in all AAP Stor *s Morulav
will he Eight O'clock 7.rM-. Re.l
Circle 7 c and Rokar flic. Tne
company's own brand of AAP vac-
uum-packed coffee will be reduced
turn Me to Wc • pound.'*
Girls Spend Night
Aboard Ceitler On
wlfflf «rwf IlifivwivOn
LON«; BEACH. Calif. <T.P —
Two 17 year old girls claimed
they visited an aircraft carrier
on Armed Forces Day but stay-
mi over night on the ship at the
invitation of two sailors, "Jim
and Joe."
Officers immediately began
<|ue-tioning ail James and Jos-
ephs but admitted "there's quite
a few of them aboard."
The girls said they boarded the
carrier Point Crux Saturday
during an open house. "Jim" and
"Joe." they said, hid them aboard
the ship and then joined them
later.
Another open house was held
Sunday and hundreds more vis-
ited the carrier. The girls said
they slipped out of their hiding
place, mingled with the crowd
ami left the ship. The carrier put
out to sea Monday.
, , gation and predicted the hiph , . ,.
to give the shots made a fat an- veterans land progiam investiga- i Russjan leaders would try to lute came; an.I th>- liown Drue
nounceinent that they would not tions, were returned by a Trav-i* j|ar8j,a| fiUr into a neutralist buf-: Mission^ and the Popului Store
county grand jury late Monday a i fer IOne between western Europe
few^ hours after t.iles trial for ;m^ th.. S(,vj,.t satellites.
bribery was postponed at San An j Linked With Russian Moves
tomo until Aufc. 15. I It wax alno linked with RunsiaV
District ^ Attorney Us nwter of i attfmpts to make German neu-
Austin said the state would seek trality the price of its unification.
an early trial on the new indict • pravd<* cited "press reports**
mf^ts, possibly as early as June 2. that the American troop shift wa<
. , t The new indictments accused beinjf planned and said, "there car.
called off until fall. ( itv h**alth of- (tiles and Brady land promoter B. 1 be no doubt that such a measure
ficials said parents of from #>*mi to R. Sheffield of stealing and con- , would increase the danger of
2. Mmi school youngsters had with-1 spiring to steal in state 1 Italy's involvement in military ad
drawn their children from the pro- funds in Veterans Land Board ventures fraught with grave con
gram "The unstable condition transactions. ^ i sequences."
concerning vaccine" was blamed. The giand jury at Austin re ' Communist newspapers here
Milwaukee officials also had turned these five indictments plus carried the Moscow dispatches on
harsh words for the administration two others that named Sheffield the Pravda attack. Non-Commu
Dallas to try to get work dev
on the buildings owned by t^
theaters across from the Burr!-.
Hotel.
Three Admitted Tc
Local Hospitals
Local hospitals report three a '
missions since noon Saturday ir !
three dismissals.
Mrs. W. W. Minchew and M' -"-
Myrlene McKee were medical -
tries to the Breekenridge Clinic. I
Hospital and Mrs. F. R. Hrpecl:-
and babv were dismissed.
Gary Fambro entered the Step -
ens Memorial Hospital as a Surg-
Milton Gilbert at Irt Noith Breck- ical patient and A. W. (Cellar wa-
enridge Ave on April W. dismissed.
Fined For Peeking
Kenneth Gene Vickers, .'l„ of
Abilene was I' ri"d in city court
on Mond:i\ for trespassing and
window p- eking at the resident of
J of the vaccine program as they
Obscene Movies,
Books Are Token
O B"aH ^airman until his resigna-,
bout 1 .IMHI obscene ^«ks tjon ,.„mmi„jone|. n( th„ ^
:l*°v fr.,m "';'l Land. Office last Jan. 1
' LARFDO, Tex. 'I'.pi—Two men
were being held Tuesday after
I United States customs agents con
fiacated a'
and 12 reels
a pickup truck in which the pair
was riding.
It marked the second seizure of
obarene and lewd material made
\ by officers at I .a redo in recent
weeks.
The latest seizure and arrests
: were made when customs agent <
stopped the truck at the interna-
tional bridge. They aaid it was
driven by a Nuevo Laredo, Me*.,
man who was en route to Nuevo
Laredo across the Rio Grande.
Officers aaid they believed the
material was coming from a Dal-
las syndicate and waa destined for
singly and charged the land deal-
er with forgery and Uttering a
forgid instrument in connection
w-ith a land title.
The new indictments concerned
sale of Kinnev county .and under
the scandalized $100 million veter-
ans land program which Giles ad-
ministered as Veterans Land
nist newspapers front-paged stoi
ies of a $50 million loan signed
over to Italy Monday by I". S. Am-
bassadyr Clare Boothe Luce.
-o
Rayburn Described As Man Who Ha
Been Setting Bear Trap For Ike
Congratulations
To Three Couples
Sweeney-Griffin
INSURANCE AGENCY
in W. Wlliama —
PRESENTS
THE WEATHER
high Monday 88.
Partly cloudy and
through Wednesday. Low to-
night <W, low thia norning M,
high Monday 88.
By I.YI.E C. WILSON hill got through the House, w.r-
WASHINGTON <l"P> —Speaker; licked in the Senate. But the Demo-
Sum Rayburn of Texas, now welljcratic party is on record as h:n
I beyond the classical three scoie ing tried.
ind to \<ars, is the talk-it-up guy; Plans Demo Strategy
r ..f the P-mor-ratic offensive team That began the development f
in this Congress. The spark plug j the Democratic party's domes'
Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Herpeche w ill be 74 years old next January, legislative program aimed at n«^'
are parents of a baby boy born at Mr. Sam is how he is addressed. | vear's political campaign. It w:
3:2ii a. m. Monday May 23, in the mostly, hut Mr. Demo, rat would Rayburn's strategy, largely, th.
Breekenridge Clinical Hospital. At he more fi'ting. Rayburn is the! Democrats in control of the 84-
birth the baby, who has been man who has been setting the bear Congress should come uji with
named Charlie Ikie, weighed seven trap for President Kisenhower in
pounds and six ounces. the 84th Congress. He hasn't
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Collin; caught the President yet, but Mr.
are parents of a baby girl born in F.isenhower has had to !>•• alert ami
.t rf . w * !_l tt u. I .. ...Ul D... L •- I
program of their own rather than
merely voting down or amendin.-
the legislative measures submitt? '
r by the Eisenhower administratis
the "Stephens Memo'rial Hospital | nimble to escape some of Rayburn's j Democratic bills have come hai <
at 5:49 p. m. Monday, May 23. At deadfalls. | fast and, often, by surprise, 1iV
birth the baby weighed six pound* The speaker l"d off with his own ! bullets. That's the way Raybu; :
and one half ounce. 'special project when the session I fights. He was a real actor in pa s^ -
Mr. nnd Mrs. « ral Olson are br gan. It was to ram through a, ing the high and rigid farm su;
parents of a baby boy born at 5:54 Democratic tax reduction right; port bill through the House at th
a. m. Tuesday. May 24, in th" now, whereas the Republicans! session. The Senate probably w"
Stephens Memorial Hospital. At w ere planning to toss the bait to. not take it
birtn tha baby weighed tight the voters next year just before the j But Senate Democrats part it. •
powda. presidential campaign. Rayburn'ti (CvUmi «H Pip D.
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