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BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS—THURSDAY. JULY 25, 1957
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M AD K I I.I.hit \ IC TIMS—Arm«*d p« ssps hav ' f
killer" who shot a truck driver ami two young w
wrre i(i**ntifu'(| as I), CantrHl of Carlsbad, l«
Dorothy (iihson, both of Hobbs. CantrHl's body was i
of '"arlsbad. Signs indicated a terrific .struggle took
ft,
• I « tif .Mrross th^ sotithwpst searching for a "mad
► n t< d *ath prar Carlsbad, N. M. Thf* victims
and Mrs. Barbara (amnions, center, and Mrs.
found lying alongside his truck about HO miles east
place before the killings.
City Again Wins
Traffic Safety
State Award
A l" ST IN f Tli* Texas Safety
Association announced today that
4o Texas «'iti*-s have won tralf'c-
safety ceitificates of achievement.
Each city wat
of police tiaffic
traffic safety education, public
improvement in tiaffic «ieath rec
otds. nviintenance of accident re-
ports iii| traffic engineering.
Dallas I i'<l in total auaids in
the alvue categories.
Winn*t s included:
MMI.ihmi |n 7fiO,iMM
Pallas and Houston.
to Mmi.inmi
K n Antonio.
200,000 to 250JKHI
Fort Worth.
liKMMin to 200,000 population -
Amarillo, Austin, Corpus Cliristi
and Lubbock.
Ml/IOfl to lon,ooo population —
Abilene, San Angelo and Wichita
Falls.
25,1*0(1 to 100,00ft population —
Odessa and Tyler
Iii.ihHi to 25,000 population—R19
Spring. Borger, OMeburne, Coibi-
cana. Highltii'l Park. Unwiu, Mer-
cedes. Paris, Pasadena, Plainvirvy.
Seguin. Sherman. Snyder. Uni\«r
sity Park and White Settlement.
S.iHMt to 10,000 population Al
mo Heights, Andrews, Ballinger,
Breckenridge. Colorado City, Dal
hart. Hereford. Hunts* ille. Iy >[
land San Marcos, Sfephenville and
Weslaco
Rainfall Here .08 With
More Showers Predicted
rated on 'he basis I to 1.50, the fall
upervision, school ; west and north
population-
population-
population
Plunge Off
Fatal To Woman
(B \ SIM I \TED PRESS)
A I- • ■ t Worth woman was kill-
ed when h> t car plunged from -i
bridge in New Mexico into the
f|o,,i| g"ig d Rio Grande
She wan 5,'i year old Mrs. ("Urk
Mane Kice.
Police said the car sank in about
15 feet of n iter and the wo.nan
was trapped inside. Her 18 year old
daughter. Mat t ha Rice. a.s appar-
ently thrown fiom the car and man-
aged t" swim ashore.
Seen Or Heard
by C. M. H.
Boh Elliott taid he drove from
Olnev to Breckrnridge yesterday
in pouring rain mo>t of the way.
had to stop while at South Beiid
Oni II it t son «aid he brought
Boh Hood a truck load of frog*
'1 '<i morning and Boh said he wonld
I Ve four hu«het.H, hut 50 rents a
j .shel wan too high ... Letter
"(lark said no inkling vet from
Austin on water board's derision
on Hubbard Creek Lake project.
Karl Trammell. all smiles, said
reason was his grandson and par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Tipton
Jr of Kl Paso are visiting the
Trammells . Mrs. Clara Cor-
bet'. home from New Mexico and
Colorado Springs, said i' rained on
her nearly every day ... No fire
runs, no arrests, but Chase Booth
back home 'from hospital.
A. H. Miller asks that all who
have encyclopedia*, reference
books, standard histories, or tech-
nical books who contribute to li-
brary for Ranger tunior College
the unstable air that's been causing
the patch-work pattern of light
to torrential rains the past several
•Vt'vs is .still with us.
Northwest and West Texas te-
eeived the heaviest dowupours yes-
teiday and last night, althougii at
least some rain dotted every sec-
tion of the state.
Rule, in northwest Texas. Kid
four inches of rain. The West Tex-
as town of Grandview. about 15
miles north of Lamesa received
U.75.
Vernon, in the upper Red River
Valley aiea, had 2..'t0 inches of i;tin,
and lightning knocked radio station
KVWC off the air briefly. Other
heavy ranis include Cedar Gap 2.20 j
inches; Putnam l.*50; and Buffalo;
Gap 1.5.
Yesterday's maximums ranged
from Laredo's 102 degrees to 81
at Van Hoin.
Skies this morning were partly
cloudy to cloudy in the nortliei n
portions and cleai to partly cloudy
A few more rainfall reports for
the past 24 hours, all under ore-
half inch.
El Paso .,'18 of an inch, on top
f By ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Breckenrildge received "H of an
inch of Min up to Thursday morn-
ing bringing the total for the ..pell
reported heavier
if the city, and
Lake Daniel received .20 bringing
the total there to 1,95.
Prospects weie repoited favor
able fur more showers.
The I'. S. Weather Bureau said
Passenger Blown
Through Hole In
Plane By Blast
LOS ANGELES 'J*- An explo-
sion occurred in a passenger plane
as it flew over California today
and one passenger is missing and
presumed dead. The blast tore a
seven hv four-foot hole in the side
■ti the Western Air Lines plane.
An airline official said three new-
men and 12 other passengers I of almost 2 inches in the pre-
aboard the plane were unharmed, ceding two days, and El Paso nor-
On* of the passenuers surviving mally is one of the diiest sections
the blast was an infant. | in Texas.
It is assumed the passenger, a| Salt Flat, also in far West Texas,
North Hollywood jeweler. S. F. j had .28 of an inch; Beaumont, in i
Binstoclc, enroute home from New Southeast Texas. .26: Dallas .25;
York, w as blown out through the j Fort Worth .2:1; Wink .20; Big
hole in the plane, to almost certain > Spring .18; Wichita Falls .10; Pala- I
death. The Western Airlines plane . cios .09; Lubbock, Sherman .md :
made a safe emergency landing at j Childress .07; and Lufkin, Mineral j
British Airmen
Continue Battle
Against Sultan
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Britain's Royal Air Force
keeping up its drive to put down
an uprising against the Sultan of
Muscat and Oman, an Arabian
coastal monarchy.
Today's target for the RAF jets
is a rebel-held fort at Oman's an-
cient capital o'f Nizwa. Yesterday
Hiitish jets used rockets and ma-
chineguris in twelve sorties against
rebel tiibesrnen in the rugged des-
ert region and claimed they gutted
one rebel fort.
Two companies of Cameronian
Rifles from Kenya have reached
the RAF base in Oman. The vet
eran campaigners are fully equip-
ped for desert action but London
officials say there are no plans for
using British ground troops in sup-
port of the pro-British Sultan of
Oman.
Conflicting claims mark reports
as to who is winning the rebellion.
Cairo representatives of dissi-
dent tribesmen assert their forces
have seized most of the interior of
the Arabian area and that many
of the Sultan's followers are
switching to their side. The British
foreign office in London denies
that Britsh troops have been re-
pulsed in fighting and that the Sul-
tan has asked the rebels for an
armistice.
The B.itish need 'for oil may
explain cuirent operations in Mus-
cat and Oman, a sultanate under
the British wing. The territory is
adjacent to Saudi Arabia. There
may or may not be large oil de-
posits in Muscat and Oman, but a
defeat for the Sultan would bring
English prestige down another
fwg-
There is talk that King Saud
of Saudi Arabia and various oil
interests are working together to
deprive Britain of its concessions.
It may be true that King Saud
wants to increase his oil wealth.
It can't be true that Western oil
interests would aid and abet him.
It can't b tine because the conse-
quences would be disastrous.
For the minute Britain collapses
as a power, industrial and other-
wise, the defense position of the
free world becomes almost unten-
able. Certainly, the United States
would have to double its commit-
ments if it is to maintain any kind Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Rollins are
ctf balance against the Soviet parents of a baby boy born July
Union. 25 at 7:10 a. in. in Stephens Me-
Planners in Washington are well : morial Hospital. The baby weighed
awaie of this near axiom. ' six pounds and thirteen ounces.
JURY TRIAL AMENDMENT
BATTLE OPENED TODAY
Befeat Is Seen
After Southern
Solons Victory
Body Of Martin
On Way Home For
Funeral Service
The body of Roy Martin Jr., son
of Mi. and Mrs. Roy Martin Sr.
of Breckenridge who died near his
home in Pamoivi, Calif. Monday
will leave there today and is *x-
pected to arrive in Breckenridge
tomorrow afternoon. Funeral ar-
rangements were pending today.
Further information received
was that Martin died of a heart
attack while driving his car near
his home. He was married here on
July 11, and his former wife was
a victim of an automobile accident
Martin an electrical engineer
was transferred to the Convair
plant in California about 1953.
He was born and reared in
Breckenridge.
Surviving are his wife; a son
Billy Martin of Pomona; his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Mar-
tin of Breckenridge, a brother,
Robert J. Martin with the Army
on Formosa, and five sisters, Mrs.
B. E. Colby of Illinois, Mrs. R. H.
Udlock of Fort Worth, Mrs. Way-
ne Sandel of Farniington, N. M.
Mrs. Tom Hawley of Breckenridge
and Mrs. Charles Keese of Brov n-
wood.
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One Admitted To
Local Hospital
Stephens Memorial Hospital r®
ports one admission, Mrs. Clffton
Rumsey, a medical patient.
Dismissals were: Chase Booth.
S. B. Crowley, Mrs. E L. Small, Jr.
Congratulations
Bulganin Note Brings Smiles In Spots
RUSSIANS APPEAR UNHAPPY
OVER A-WEAPONS FOR NATO
CONVICTED Segregationist John Kasper talks with spectators
after an all-white jury in Knoxville, Tenn., convicted him and six
others of conspiring to hinder integration of the Clinton, Tenn. high
school. The jury returned its unprecedented enforcement test of the
U. S. Supreme Court's 1954 integration ruling a'fter deliberating for
thiee hours and 30 minutes. Four other defendants were acquitted.
Eastern Brought
Losses Mounting
Into Millions
NEW YORK '.fi—A withering
drought continued its grip on the
Eastern United States today, scar-
ring some areas with the most
severe damage in a quarter cen-
tury.
Estimated crop losses have reach-
ed a multiniillion dollar level.
The parched region stretched
from the Carolinas to Maine, in-
flicting its harshest punishment in
«,hrt NW England.
j v? °'k' New Jersey, \ irginia sl<£ thp ato®ip tp*t ,it„ „„ th,
and Maryland.
Blast Fired In
Desert Makes
Double Cloud
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The 10th atomic blast in the 1957
test series w-as exploded over the
Nevada desert this morning. The
blast had the power of almost 20.-
000 tons of TNT. It was set off
from a balloon suspended 500 feet
in the air.
The atomic energy commission
said any significant fallout from
the explosion would be in the im-
mediately adjacent portions of a
(leorge Air Force has
The airliner 47 minutes out
of Las Vegaa, Nevada, where the
missing jeweler boarded the plane,
when the explosion occurred at
Iihhmi feet altitude.
The blast was near the rear
washroom into uhich the man had
gone. Western Airlines officials
report there are no fuel tanks or
lines near the washroom, nor weie
any explosives or inflammables
stored nearby. The baggage com-
partment is up front in the plane.
While KBI men investigate, a heli-
copter is searching the desert for
the missing passenger and plane
wreckage.
DaNasite Killed
In Road Accident
ABILENE A 37-year-old
Dallas man was killed five miles
east of Abilene early this morning
when his car collided with a g iso-
1 line transport.
He was Willie Claude I-ong.
Highway patrolmen said his car
hit the rear wheels of the truck,
apparently after he had dozed at
the wheel. A hitch-hiker with him.
26-year-old George Stovall of
Menlo Park, California, was ser-
iously injured. The driver of the
transport. J. T. Thompson, wasn't
hurt.
Wells and Alpine .01
M aximilm temperatures in Texas
were mostly below 100 degrees. The
temperatures ranged from 102 at
Laredo to 81 at Van Horn.
Body Of Barber
Expected Friday
The body of Henry (Curly) Bar-
ber, who died Wednesday in Gal-
veston. is expected to arrive Fri-
day at Melton Funeral Home. Mr.
Barber had been ill for some time.
Funeral arrangements are incom-
plete.
Survivors include his mother,
Mrs. W. H. Barber, a brother. J. I.
Barber, and a sister, IVfrs. Myrtie
Shores, all tfl* Breckenridge.
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Parents Of Boy
Rev. and Mrs. Rupert Coles of
Shreveport, La. are parents of a ha-
by boy born July 21. The hiby
weighed six pounds, five ounces
and has been named Paul Franklin.
For peace of Mind . . . Sec
TRAMMELL - SWANSON
INSURANCE AGENCY Ad*.
lib Of News OH Wires Of T«ta*
A spokesman for a Trenton, New-
Jersey firm says his company has
offered to buy the sunken Ita'ian
Liner Andrea Dorvi for salvage
rights. ,
_imi i(niT r Just a yenr ago today, the An-
br nrh To le«ve"Vbem',aT'( hamlir
of Commerce . ... Punk Sheet*. " " ~~~
commissioner, said net raine to
ctty in Increased ta* valuations
total only a little leas than S7,0tt0
.... Grand jury to be selected and
go into sewnion tomorrow.
aion w-ith the Swedish liner Stock-
holm with a loss of 50 lives.
R. G. Stoker seery studying map
cf route to Baptist encampment
for deaf near Austin July 26-28
which he intends to attend ....
Mrs. Gracie Jenkins at Bowen
Drug opined today that Christmas
is nearly here and it is time for
Christmas shopping And, a-
gain we say we should get some
more rain with atmospheric con-
ditions as are.
A Yale University pathologist
says investigations have failed to
firove a direct cause abd-effect le-
ung cancer. This view was voiced
by Dr. Harry S. N. Greene in testi-
mony prepared for a house gov-
ernment operations subcommittee
in Washington.
Washington.
on the editorial staff of the
Antonio Express.
San
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)
There is good evidence tlfit
the Russians are not happy over
prospect that NATO allies on the
continent may be supplied with
atomic weapons. Premier Bulgan-
in expressed deep misgivings on
the question in his note to prime
Minister Macmillan.
The Ru ssian proposed that the
United States. Britain and Russia,
the world's three nuclear powers,
should agree not to base nuclear
weapons on either East or West
German soil. He expiessed the -ie—
that concentration of nuclear wea-
pons in Europe would increase
the danged of war.
The Bulganin letter was rather
mild in tone. There were no veiled
threats against Britain. On the con
trary the Soviet Premier spoke of
improving contracts between tiie
two countries. Macmillan has .>n
open invitation to visit Moscoa- but
l has not yet decided to go.
i Macmillan will smile at the Rus-
i sian assertion that the Soviet
| Union's only aim in the middle
East is to bolster the peace. He
also will have his reservations
| about the charge that the jnclo-
| French and Israeli and the Arabs.
Macmillan may well ask per-
tinent questions about the Soviet
arms deal with Egypt preceded the
original Suez crisis and the troub-
les that followed.
As many recall Rulgvinin actually
threatened Britain and Franee at
the time of their move against
Egypt last fall. Britatin did not
have the Hydrogen bomb then. It
has that and nrore now. and the
tone of Moscow has changed ac-
cordingly.
Russia has continued to sell wca-
planned intrigue could result in a
serious conflict.
If the Soviet Union is earnestly-
desirous of a settlement, the Wes-
tern powers are more than willing
to accommodate.
Unfortunately, though, Russia
is not prepared to accept the prin-
ciple of world stabilization. It says
it does not want war, but it would
like to retain its nuisance value.
It would like to clean benefits by
inciting trouble here and there.
Whether it will abandon such
ideas and agree to cooperate in
making the world a safer place to
live in remains to be seen.
The Hungarian Catholic League
of America says the U. S. is the
last hope for more than 9.000
Hungarians who fled into Yugosla-
via. The Lenjpue report says the
refugees are now living under con-
centration camp conditions. They
fled Hungary during last fall's re-
volt.
Officer Freed
In Hair Case
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The U. S. Air Force has wiped
out the White-Sidevvall haircut
Court Martial conviction of a GI
in Japan.
The airman, 20-year old Donnld
Wheeler of Cortez, Colorado h id
been sentenced to 4 months at hard
labor, fined $200, and demoted to
private after being found guilty of
disobeying an officer's order to
get a close cut. Wheeler's comman
der. Colonel Charles Johnstone, to-
day threw out the conviction le-
cause of what he said were legal
errors of procedure in the Court
Martial, anjl announced there would
not be another trial.
Both the Colonel and the airman
s iid the GI has changed his atti-
tude. To a question as to bow-
Wheeler changed his attitude. Cap
pons to nations in the Middle East. _
The danger of war in that area I tain Jon Connolly of Houston, Tex
r. A well- . as replied: "Ever spend a couph
has not receded altogther.
Thought For The Moment. Eat,
drink and be merry for tomorrow
jr« diet—William Gllaor* fejra*.
The 10-year-old daughter of a
San Antonio newspaperman was
killed in a 2-car collision during a
rainstorm near Brushnell, Florida.
The girl, Janie Kinley, was the
daughter of Mrs. Idabelle Kinley,
women's editor of the Tampa Tim-
es, and Wilbur Kinley, former
•porta editor of the times and uow
Picket line violence is unusual in
England but in London, today sttik-
ers set fire to trucks, cut brake
cables, and beat up a police chief.
The outbreak occurred as police
cars escorted long lines of produce
trucks through pickets around Lon-
don's big central markets.
A Fort Worth Cowpoke, tan-
ham Riley, grabbed top money
in the first calf roping go-round
of the 61st annual frontier days
rodeo at Cheyenne, Wyoming. The
Texan roped his calf in 14.7 rcc-
onds, .and picked up (1,282.60 {or
bla efforts.
Killer Of Three
Is Still Sought
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)
A statewide search is continuing
in New Mexico for the slayer of a
truck driver and two women near
Hobbs on Tuesday morning.
In Carlsbad, officers are ques-
tioning a 48 year old man from
San Diego, California, but thev aid
they doubted he waa the killer.
The man, named as Jack Smith,
was said by officers to have been
a patient at a mental hospital in
San Bernardino, California in 1954.
Sheriff Hartsil! Martin of Carls-
had said Smith would be kept in
custody on a vagrancy charge and
may be taken to the scene of the
slayfofs.
_. . couple
of nights in Jail?" As for future
Air Force haircut requirements in
Japan, an officer said there no long-
er is any requirement for white
sidewalls.
BILL BLACK
INSURANCE
104 N. Ceart Phone HI M4M
PUSENTH
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy this afternoon,
tonight and Friday with scat-
tered mostly afternoon and
nighttime thundershowers. Low
tonight in middle 70s, high to-
morrow in middle 90s. Low last
night 72, hifk yesterday 95.
Spotty rains hit some sections
this week, and temporarily eased
the situation in Pennsylvania, but
over most (ft the area, the spat-
tenng showers help little, and no
genuine rain was in sight.
Across the broad swath of the
country, including major sources of
fruits and vegetables for the pop-
ulous east and much of the rest
of the nation, crops drooped brown
and shriveled.
Prices for garden products took
a sharp upturn.
In many orchard's, peaches and
apples hung scanty and stunted.
Long Island potato vines wilted.
Tomato plants sagged in New Jer-
sey. Corn tasseled knee-high in
Maryland, instead of its usual
shoulder height. Tobacco leaves
burned in Viiginia.
Many pastures were little more
than scorched earth.
"They're just dry lots where
'farmers turn out their cows for
exercise." said Harry Beggs. Dor-
chester, Maryland, county agent.
No fair estimate of dollar dam-
age has yet been made in many of
the stricken regions, but in places
wheie it has been, the figures were
in the niultimillion zone. Some of
them:
Rhode Island 10 million; New-
Jersey. 10 million; Connecticut,
approaching 10 million; Massachu
setts, 8 million.
In southern Maryland and along
the state's eastern shore, a vital
larder of tomatoes, corn, and beans
with its many canneries and 'frozen
food plants, the drought -as de-
scribed as the worst since 1930.
Eight counties asked to be clas-
sified by the federal government
as major disaster areas.
The entile states of Rhode
Island and Connecticut also have
asked such classification so as to
become eligible for federal aid.
The Viiginia Agriculture De-
partment said farmers stand to
lose hah' of their corn crop east
of the Blue Ridge Mountains, with
corn in th3 worst condition in his
tory in the state's southeast com-
mercial growing area.
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Door Prhces At
Clearance Sale
Montgomery Ward has announc-
ed a door prize for its customers,
in connection with their July Clear-
ance Sale now in progress. Five
valuable prizes are being offered,
Ranch mink stole,,a one ton air con-
ditioner, automatic Zig-Zag Sewing
Machine, a portable TV set and
a Eureka Carmister cleaner. There
is nothing to buy, just sign the
slip and deposit at the catalog
store, 117 W. Walker, The sale
ends July 31.
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)
A jury trial amendment to the
civil right j hill is up for debate
in the Senate today. It is billed as
the next major test in the battle
over the controversial legislation.
, The jury tiial pioposal was
called up for debate hard on the
heels of the 52 38 vote by which the
Senate diocarded all the measure's
enforcement authority except that
to safeguaid the right to vote. The
action came in the adoption of an
amendment authored by Democrat
Clinton Anderson iti New Mexico
and Republican George Aiken of
Vermont.
Thirty-four Democrats and 18
Republicans voted for the amend-
ment. Thirteen Demo"iats and 25
Republicans voted against it.
The adoption of the Anderson-
Aiken amendment was legarded as
a resounding victory for southern
foes of the civil rights legislation.
But Republican Senator Jacob
Javits of New York, said he hoped
it would arouse civil rights sup-
porters to close ranks and stand
'fast by the rest of the bill.
Another opponent of the amend-
ment, Senator Chailes Potter,
Michigan Republican, said the ef-
fect of the change was to, "sweep
under the rug the entire category
of individual civil lights guaran-
teed by the constitution."
Both Senators Anderson and
Aiken said that the adoption of
their amendment increased the
chances of passing a civil rights
bill and lessened the possibility of
a southern filibuster against it.
The executive secretary of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement, of Colored People, Roy
Wilkins, criticized the adoption of
the amendment.
He said th° Senate vote yester-
day gave, "aid and comfort to those
j who would nullify the equal pro-
I tection clause of the 14th amend-
, ment."
j Wilkins also contended that the
test site on the j Senate vote yesterday, said "to
Negro Americans that so far as
to on | the Senat° is concerned, they can
. | expect little, jrf any, assistance
watched fiom Angel's Peak, about from the federal government in at-
side the atomic
Yucca Flat.
Today's shot was closed
site observation by newsmen. They
40 miles from the blast point.
In the opinion of an Italian atom-
ic expert, Enrico Medi. the world j
politicians are more dangerous than |
the atomic bomb. After watching;
a nuclear test in Nevada. Medi
says: "The danger is not in the
bomb itself, but in the men who
would use it."
The blast occurred before dawn
and newsmen 25 miles away slw
a brilliant flash and double mush-
room cloud. It boiled up swiftly,
disappearing in clouds overhead.
The atomic energy commission re-
ports that wind conditions were
cross currents and they diffused
the radioactive fallout. The power
of the atomic device is described
as being less than the wartime
blast which destroyed Hiroshima,
Japan.
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Man Hangs Self
In Laredo Jail
tempts to win the
their constitutional
The amendment
enjoyment of
T ..
rights.
providing for
jury trials in civil lights cases
which goes before the Senate today
is bv Demociat Joseph O'Mahoney
of Wyoming. He said it would ap-
ply in caser, of criminal contempt
involving acts in willful disobed-
ience rti court orders and also in
violation of federal or state crim-
nal law.
Senate Republican Leader Wil-
liam Know-land, leader of the sup-
porters of the Civil Rights bill,
said he thought the 0 Mahoney
amendment would be defeated. He
added a vote on the amendment is
not likely before the fir3t of next
week.
'iiMMMniiMMiiMiiMiiimitttiiHiiiiiitiiimiitMitiinnMnii
1957 FORDS with AIR CONDI-
TIONING, only $2395 at Daniel
Motors. —Ait
HHiiniiuiiminmimMM—ww—aammmmtm
LAREDO iJPi— A California man
arrested at the Mexican border at
Laredo yesterday was found hang
ed this morning in the Laredo jail.
Authorities identified the man as
a 32-year old tax consultant from
Larkspur, California, Max W. M-n-
del.
The LI. S. Customs office said
he was jailed for allegedly pos-
sessing narcotics, and was to have
beep arraigned before the U. S.
commissioner at Laredo today.
Oficers said Mendel was placed
in a cell block with 30 other prison-
ers. When the prisoners woke up
this morning, Mendel's body was
found hanging near the dining sec-
tion of the cell block. A noose
made out of a mattress cover was
around his neck.
An autopsy was ordered.
A San Francisco soldier, arrested
w-ith Mendel was in another cell
block.
Rangeland Fire
Rages In Idaho
BOISE. Idaho — Governor F.o-
bert Smvlie last night declared a
state of emergency as a 2,000-acre
rangeland fire swept near Boise,
Idaho, a city of 40,000.
Smvlie sent Idaho National
Guaid units and equipment into
the battle to control the spread
of the flames. The wind-fed bUzo
came within two miles of some
Boise re udences early today.
Bulldozers, trucks and road grad-
ers rolled to the scene north of
Boise. More than 300 firefight-
ers joined the b-ittle.
Ciews had the fire under control
for a short time in the evening.
A change of wind swept it South
toward the city.
The fire broke out in grassland
to the north in the afternoon. Of-
ficials did not know what started
it.
Phon* HI 9-4431 for Oxygen
Equipped mtibulanr# service.
SfttUrwhit* Funeral ffna*.
West End Breck Former Residents
Plan Reunion In Park At Weekend
A letter received from Jim
Johnson, Abilene, tells cf plans
for a weekend reunion here. The
letter follows:
As has been our custom for the
third consecutive year now, the
kids who grew up in the west end
of Breckernidge during the 1930's,
are having their annual reunion on
July 27-28.
We meet in Miller Park for our
outdoor meals and to take ad
vantage of the recreational facili-
ties there.
This year we expect returnees
frott Odessa, Abilene, Coleman.
Jtaton, Pallas, Wichita fails,
Houston. San Diego, California,
Lovmgton and Artesia, New Mex-
ico, and Austin.
Our gathering is highlighted by
a golf "Tournament" since most of
us were caddies and learned to
play at Breckenridge Country Club.
We would very much like to see
all our old Breckenridge friends
this year. Any one who was ac-
quainted with the Johnsons' Pot-
ters, Cudds, Cnrnwells, Rhoades,
McKees, Hawleys, Ritchies, School-
crafts etc. will be mighty welcome
to the West End Reunion in Millar
Pwk on July 27-88.
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Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 147, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1957, newspaper, July 25, 1957; Breckenridge, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth135615/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Public Library.