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Utah Governor
Loses Round With
Federal Tax Agents
SALT LAKE CITY I*—Gov J.
Bracken Lee, beaten in the first
eral government, says he’s not
giving up his efforts to win a
court test on the constitutionality
of the nation's foreign aid pro-
gram.
Lee refused to pay part of his
income tax, hoping the govern-
ment would go to court to sue
him for the taxes due and thus
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tailed report on the recent visit
to Britain of Soviet Premier Ni-
kolai Bulganin and Communist
party boss Nikita Khrushchev.
Ministers gave their interpreta-
tions of Russian moves and ad-
vice on bow the West must meet
the Kremlin's new look. MATO of-
ficials maintained silence on the
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Water Report
Compiled dally from raritegl
taken at both city raoMrVdta.
Report Tibetans In
Revolt Against Red
Chinese Rulers '
By JOSEPH E. DYNAN
PARIS (J»—NATO's foreign min
taters agreed today the Western
world is facing a new and. dan-
gerously agile Soviet foreign pol-
‘ toy based on economic and cultur-
al penetration.
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Local Boy Scouts leave tonight ‘ Reliable sources disclosed the
for their Spring Camporee ...
to be held on Lone Star Lake.
They will have a campfire pro-
gram tonight, including a Court
of Honor for advancements, and
ttans tomorrow morning at 10
which will continue through , to-
morrow. It appeared final deci-
sions on such proposals will be
postponed at least until Decem-
ber.
U. S. Secretary of State Dulles
was described as cautiously op-
timistic at the morning session
that the Soviet dictatorship migh
eventually mellow into a sort of
liberalism under the pressure of
mess education.
He called upon the Allies for
unity to support the forces of lib-
eralism which he viewed as
emerging within the Soviet
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NATO Ministers
Study New Policies
Of Soviet Russia
Ike Optimistic Over
Air Power Position
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be rejected temporarily because
of defects which he said arc being
But there still is much testi-
mony to come in the Senate in
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and"zane Johnson.'city land said H should notbeforgot-
Bert Lloyd,
Chamber of Commerce president. .
and f ' ---
president.
But the Internal Revenue serv-
ice outflanked him on that one
this Week. It placed $1,203.10 in
Hens on the accounts he has in
three Utah banks.
Lee told the banks Wednesday
to satisfy the liens if they must,
el | but said "any payment will be
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WEATHER
■ East Texas: Partly cloudy and
mild through Saturday. Cooler
extreme north tonight
Couple Killed in
Crash Light Plane
BROWNSVILLE UR— A Denver
couple was killed and another
peeson was—injured yesterday
when their light plane crashed
at a takeoff.
' James Livingston, 45, and his
wife, 35. died. Miss Pstricis Mc-
Guire, 35, of Tucson, was hurt.
Her injuries were not believed
1 serious.
Over Hundred Attend
H. D. Club 'Program
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Over a hundred visitors called I Brown. During the serving hours
fn <na» thm dt«nlav ftf furniture thm fed In wine fnnrta and nu trit inn
at the Nevil’s Chapel Community
Center during the hours of the
home demonstration club’s Open
House Thursday in observance
of National Home Demonstration
Week. Answering questions about
the refinished and reupholstered
furniture done by4the club wom-
en were the following leaders:
Mrs. Harry Hall and Mrs. Julius
Wofford of Argo, Mrs. Frank
Newman and Mrs. Bobby Steph-
enson; of Oak Grove; Mrs. John
Hall and Mrs. Nat Robinson of
Chapel Hill; Mrs. A. N. Penner
ad Mrs. D. E. Miner of Nevil’s
Chapel. and Mrs. Grant McAnally*
and Mrs. Glynn Roper of Hl-Way
Home Demonstration Club.
Greeting the guests at the door
and presiding at the register
were officers of the Titus County
H. D. Council, Mrs. R. T. Payne,
Mrs. W. E. Blackstone, and Mrs.
E. E. Rutland. ; ,... :
Assisting with preparation of
the tea were Mrs. Blackstone. '
Mrs. Hutland, and Mrs. Raymond 1
o’clock. That’s where you will
have your very own personal say
about the matter.
WASHINGTON UR — President match the Soviet Union in the rate
Eisenhower said today the United of output of such things as inter-
States will feet a lot better about
its air power position when the
full story has been presented.
Eisenhower told a news confer
cnee the United States has a very
powerful navy with a powerful
air arm. He said that fact has
been lost sight of so far in com-
paring this c o u n t r y’s relative
strength to that of the Soviet
Union. 1
Eisenhower this country
does, not try to match Russia in
ground power. He indicated it
should not necessarily try to
operation’s effect on navigation.
“Legislstion authorizing the ap-
propriation of funds to build the
proposed revetment apparently Is
the only solution," Plummer add-
ed.
Winner
Finds Dad When
Won Top Prize
KANSAS CITY UR-Jockey Bill
Pearson also found his dad when
he won all that money on The
$84,000 Question TV show.
.They haven’t seen each other in
2b years.
Chester Pearson, 74-year-old re-
tired baker living in Kansas City,
told today how it happened.
He was watching last, week
when Bill won the $84,000 by
answering questions about,,, six
ministerial appraisal of Russia's famous paintings.
Mrs. Pearson insisted the 38-
year-old, 108-pound jockey look-
ed like Pearson’s son by a pre-
to see the display of furniture , the following foods and nutrition
leaders, assisted:
Mrs. Joe Mebane of West New
Hope; Mrs? Johnny Colley and
Mrs. Dtek Brown of Hi-Way;
Mrs. Jim Stephenson and Mrs.
Fred Blackard of Oak Grove;
Mrs. A. G. Daniel and Mrs. L. H.
Wilson of Nevil’s Chapel; Mrs.
Nora Duke and Mrs. L L. Banka
of Argo, and Mrs. R. 1. Pickett
and Mrs. E. C. Russell of Chapel
Hill H. D. dUM. .
The floral arrai
tea table and at
in the center were made by Mrs.
Joe Barrow and Mrs. L. H. Wil-
•on.
Among the guests attending
were Miss Charlotte Tompkins,
specialist in home furnishings for
the Texas A 8c M College System,
of College Station, who conduct-
ed the upholstering workshop at
Rusk, Texas, which Mrs. Gladys
D. Kolander, county home dem-
onstration agent, attended W1
March. \ .
Sister Of Mrs. Pat
King Sucnmbs
Mrs. Pat King has received 1
word announcing the death of
a sister, Mrs. A. J. Barnes, of
Langley Prairie. British Colum-
bia. Canada, who patted away
in bet sleep the night of May |,
following a lengthy illness. -
Mrs. Barnet is survived by her
husband: two daughters, three
sons; two siateft end three brei*
i there
I Funeral services were set for
J Saturday afternoon. V
the 15-mile long natural Sabine
Lake. It has killed fish and cre-
ated mosquito flats
A proposed remedy is building
a seven mile, eight foot high dike
in the shallow waters of the lake,
about 1,500 feet from the shore.
dredgiNjf silt would be dumped or
pumped into this 1,500-fbot wide
trap, which should be ample for
50 years.
With no further silting in the
lake proper, the water would
clear up.
Army Engineers told the group
yesterday they understand the
problem and are sympathetic.
Plummer said, but have no au-
thority to act.
They pump the silt legally and
are authorized to study the mat-
ter only from the angle of the
continental bombers.
The President s remarks came
against a background of state-
ments esrlier this week by Gen.
Curtis LeMay. chief of the Strate-
gic Air Command, and. Secretary
of Defense Wilson, that current
U. S production of intercontinen-
tal bombers capable of carrying
hydrogen bombs is lagging behind
Russian output.
Wednesday
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LAKE ELI
| Baatfaga Mt*
New Lake
Old Lake
Council Holds Up
Contract For
Clearing Of Lake
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Accident Delays
Actors Trip Down
Red River Friday
NEW BOSTON, Tex. (A-
Roy Rogers continued his river
trip toward New Orleans tyday
after an accident - yesterday
threatened to scuttle his plana.
Rogers’ boat ran into a steel
piling hidden by muddy waters
of the Red River 1® miles north
of Clarksville yekterday. -
The skipper, boqtmakar R. A.
Derby of Denison, was knocked
into the water and a hole “Mg
enough to stick your fist through”
was punched lh the boat
The accident delayed Rogen
from II a. m.’ tt» 3:30 p. m. A
Clarksville boat company repair-
ed the craft and Rogen and hia
party tefL, They spent last night
at the home of I O Brabham , __
on the Rnd-Mver neij. NeW Boa- postponed pending the letting of
4 ton, leaving < 3:30 a.m. today.
work. Jhe city is anxious to have
the trees and undergrowth re-
moved. but funds for the purpose
must come from savings on sep-
arate bid contracts over engineer-
ing estimates.
Other action at the meeting in-
rludcd: ,,. .
Aruthorisatipn for the purchase
of summer uniforms for the po-
lice department, and instructions
L • inches to City Manager Bob Hayes to
work with the Titus County Com-
missioAers Court for a more per-
manent rural fire protection eotv
HOUSTON. Tex. — Wright
Morrow, former Texs national
I^emocratic committeeman, said
yesterday he is not supporting ei-
I ther Sen. Lyndon Johnson or Gov.
F Allan Slivers in their bid to head
the Texas delegation to the na-
I tional convention.
-----Morrow also said he would not
attend his Democratic precinct
convention tomorrow. He said
that he plans to support President
Eisenhower for re-election thia
year.
Morrow resigned as national
committeeman in 1952 whin he
supported the Republican presi-
dential nominee. His resignation
was, accepted by the national
committee but the Texas com-
mittee refused to accept It.
Later he was ousted from the
TT i‘-Ben
Ramsey who was endorsed for
the position by.Shivers. Johnson
and Rep. Sam Rayburn.
H|s statement said: — — -
"In response to many inquiries
concerning my position in the cur-
rent political controversy be-
tween Sen. Lyndon Johnson and
Qv>v. Allan Shivers over the
chairmanship of the Texas dele-
lAtion to the Democratic Nation-
■ Convention, I have only this
say: x
■ "I am not taking part in this
controversy on either side. I will
support President Eisenhower for
re-election because I belie ye now,
M I did in 1953, that hia electMn.
is for the best interests of all
the people of this country.
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Kiwanians Hear
Two Accomplished
Musicians
Members of tha Kiwanis Club
were privileged, at their meeting
Friday noon, to hear two unusually
accomplished young pianists of Mt.
Pleasant, Jimmy Langley, high
school student and son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. ’ O. Langley, and Paul
Strong, student at South Ward ele-
mentary school and son of Mr. and
Mrs. V. G. Strong.
Both youngsers delighted the Ki-
wanians by giving performances
rouhd Of his battle with the fed- that would have been credits to con-
cert players.
Young Langley played "Bumble
Boogie" and "Jealousy", while
Paul stayed with the classics. Jiv-
ing the cub “Minuet In G” and
"Galloping Comedians'*.
Additional guests at the meeting
included Maurice Perkins of the
Texarkana Club; Bill Mercer and
Cl c 8^5
Moroccans Kill 40
Followers Of Late
Pasha, El Glaoui
MARRAKECH. Morocco -
Troops in full battle dress today
guarded this city in the Alas foot
hills where 40 persons died in a
vengeful bloodbatn directed at
friends of the late Thami
A tight curfew appeared to have I.Hon." .
curbed the mob fury against sup- • The president of one of the
porters of the Glaoui. pro-French banks yesterday ,toid the Repub-
pasha of Marrakech who died in Hcan chief, executive hi, firm
January of cancer. 4 “has no "ther alternative than to
The Galoui. an old Berber chief-
tain. was a long-time backer of
French rule in Morocco He be-
came a special target- of hatred
for nationalists when he took the
The City Council, meeting in tT>c oufter of Sultan Mo
Thursday evening in a postponed hammed ben Youssef. After na-
seeaion, took bide for the clearing tionalist violence forced France to
of trees and other growth from retum the Sultan to power, a lew
the bed of Lake Tankersley, now ninths before his death, the Gla-
under construction. Low bidder ouj begged Ben Youssef's forgfve-
was M. Miller of Tyler, at a fig- ness and pledged allegiance''to
ure of $18,419. -7 Mm. The pasha's years of pro-
The actual letting of a con- French activity were not forgot
tract for the work, however, was.tee.
1 Mobs took to the streets two
• contract for the new filtration Id,yS ago and again yesterday,
plant to determine If funds wUl. flushing supporters of the Glaoui
be available for the clearing from their homes and hacking and
burning them. No attempts against
the city’s 15.000 European rest
dents were reported, however.
The known dead included sever-
al former kaida or chiefs, a for-
mer bodyguard of the Glaoui. a
Moslem religious leader and aev-
eral lesser tribal figures.
Some of the old pasha's follow-
ers were reported to have killed
five of the mob in gun battles.
Ben Youssef took strong meas-
ures to ivsttre order, dispatching
troop reinforcements to the scene
and ordering security forces to
fire on the rioters U necessary.
it Jbsh
th Fbrk
ga.smd *
Reinsch
to.
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camera
Logan,
tor will -
rV some
special aetvities. tomorrow mom- Tte discuaston opened with a de- «** “>to political and eoonmnic. vfow mardaga^She had 81a aame
ing. They will return home to- ———-------- ' —- fields *» ■ topic in the sessions, idea when Bit! was on another
Sheffield Case^h P
uXlUfoved From Travis
County Thursday
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WARNING?—This -was the scene in Brownwood, Tex, after backwaters from Pecan Bayou iiooaed post, in favor of Lt. Gov.
approaches to the city’s traffic circle following heavy rain* in the area. The warning sign at right
center gives notice of a narrow bridge on-a normally dry creek. • (AP Wirephoto)
AUSTIN <*-Judge Charles Betts
moved the B. R. Sheffield case
out of Travis County yesterday.
The new trial site is undecided.
The 98th District hidge act
after two and a half days of testi-
mony on a change of venue mo-
tion.
that thy company Sheffield. 51. has been charged
with theft and forgery In the vet- '
erans land scandal.
The motion pleaded that Shef- .
, field, once a business associate of
.-. -ftber glass Land Commissioner Bas-
com Giles, could not get a fair
trial hero because of “great prej-1.
udtee.” Giles was convicted in the
veterans land scandal and is in
prison.
Mentioned as possible sites by
the judge are Belton, Brownwood.
Abilene, Sweetwater and Wichita
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Texas Group Seeks Funds To
Stop Lake From Being Started
WASHINGTON Eight mm I up and polluting a large area of
from the Beaumont. Orange and
Port Arthur section were here to-
day for spadework on a proposed
three-million dollar project to
stop the silting of Sabine Lake
City Atty. Herbert Plummer of
Port Arthur, reviewing data pre-
pared for the Budget Bureau,
Army Engineers, the Reclamation
Bureau and congressmen, sum-
med up the situation:
For 20 years Army Engineers
in maintaining the busy Sablpe-
Neches Waterway, with its heavy
movement of oil tankers, have
pumped silt over into Sabine
Lake. The waterway and Port
Arthur Canal parallel Sabiite
Lake’s northwestern ahore. Only
a few hundred yards of low lands
separate them.
The muck is gradually silting
A lot of activity was going on
in- Mt. Pleasant today in
ncction with one of those 1
tries we’ve been saying might
come to the community. The
president - of the company, his
wife, and dther officials wqre in
town checking or' temporary
building facilitirfk gas rates (s
lot of gas'will be used), genersl
surroundings of Mt. Pleasant,
and other details.
We firmly believe that within
a day or two . . . maybe Mon-
day ... we can make the public
announcement ---
win locate here . , . and we be-
lieve it will be a good . . . very
good . . . deal. It is a basic indus-
try that has the greatest potential
■of any we know
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Poultry Process!
Til x I A t
riant Is AssureditM
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‘ has bccn hanging fire for several
■ ,4... > ’4,"^ 'K-'- t " »<-ks, -Aas definitely announced
for Thursday after-
noon, whgn the final bit of stock
In the businees was subscribed by
local people. An intense, last-
minute- drive- for the remainin;
stock subscriptions brought the
total amount of money raised to
t» required $40,000.
The plant wUl be built ad-
jacent to the fast 1>*ae Packing -f
Company on Monticello Road. 3-—-^
and construeiioB wqrk wiU begin
just as soon as the plans are ap- £
proved by Washington, a require-
ment that must be met before S .'
plant operations.
The NeTex company originally
was organ !zed by five men. A. C. •
Anderson, Mt Pleasant; Bill
Meek, Mt. Vemqn; Clarence Ste-
phens of Omaha; J. A. Little of
Longview, and a Mr. Gee of
Gilmer, each of whom put $10,000
In the. busthess. Flaha were to T “7 ’
construct a plant that would pro-
cess 1,200 birds per hour and that
would employ about 70 people
Later it was decided to expend ‘ Xd
the plant facilities to 2,400 birds
per hour, using more than one J
hundred employees. In order to j
do this. $50,000, more in capital
had to be raised and Mt. Pleas- '
ant people were given the op-
portunity to subscribe this a-
mount ia order to aasure the .1
plant's location here. During the
stock subscriptfow j campaign,
stock requirements were cut to
$40,000.
” The plant has tremendous J
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A couple of ex-convicts who
pulled a fast one on H It' R
Motors here Wednesday night
didn’t get away with jt for very
• long.
According to police reporta, the
pair broke into the Lincoln-Mer-
cury building at Edwards Avenue
and U. S. Highway 07 and stole
a bunch of blank company
checks. They filled in their own
amounts on the checks and
promptly cashed one at a rural
cafe in this county. Thursday
afternoon, local officers were
told, they tried to cash one at
Mopnigf Department Store in
Fort Worth and they ended up
in the Tarrant County clink-
X Speaking of burglaries, the
three Negroes who admitted to
breaking into six places of busi-
ness in and around Mt. Pleasant
in the last week or two, have
now admitted theyjpsre the ones
who broke inja»<11e office of the
First Baptist'Ghurch here some
time ago. So said Sheriff Paul
D. Brown. »
That just about winds up bur-
glary investigations in the coun-
ty Jor the time being, Brown said.
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If you are interested in who
your next President of the
United States will be, * and .want
to do something about It, don’t
forget your Democratic* eonven-
LeMay predicted that Russia is
ikcly to surpass this cxmntry in
the intercontinental bomb field by
1958 80
The SAC chief testified before
a Senate Armed Services cub-
committee which Is looking into
the relative position* of the
United States and Russia as to
air power. -
’’ Eisenhower was asked whether
he is concerned about that situa-
tion. He repbed that he believes
we ought to broaden our vision
to look at more than one part of
the whole pj£ture. ---------
Referring to LeMay s teeth
mpny, Eisenhower said it is dis-
appointing. that some >52 intcr-
^‘■We have been in huddles with
Rep. Jack Brooks add Sens. John- ““ ** * “ “““
son and Daniel They are working
and cooperating with us on the
legislative end of Bw problem."
Others in the delegation in-
cluded: Port Arthur-Milton Que- vestigatton.
bedetUX fcnu La*!!® va»^ I------r ------
cosnmisatoners. Bart Lloyd. te« that this country has the most
_ — - powerful aavy in the world and
Lyld Viier^"txacutive vlca ’ »»•■» “ fe«‘«ros one thing-air
blent.
Beamnoat-<H0ward Hicks —
the Chamber of Commerce; Ed
Easterling of the Beaumont Navi-
gation District.
Orange—Bob Dear of
Chamber at Commerce.
KATAMANDU, Nepal UR - Re-
ports reaching, here from neigh-
boring Tibet say thousands of Ti-
betans—perhaps •* many as A-
000—have revolted against their
Chinese Communist rulers.
Informants, describing the re-
ports at "very Teitabie” Mid the
uprising occurred in the eastern
districts of Tibet Eastern Tibet
is the home of the Khamba tribes-
men. many of whom call bandi- .
try their profession.
After the Chinese Reds occupi-
ed Tibet more than five years
ago, some 2JM0 mule • riding
Khamba riflemep reportedly
marched On Lhasa, Tibet’s capi-
tal, to protest the action of the
Chinese in taking the Dalai Lama
to Peiping The Chinese were said
to have halted the Khambas at
the outskirts of the eity.'
Since then the Dalai Lama, the
spiritual ruler of Tibet, has re-
turned to Lhasa. Peiping radio
last week quoted hfoi •» sayinq
opposition to Communist China’s
occupation of his country ended
after be saw the “love and con-
cern of the central authorities tor
Tibet." Red China has announced
that Tibet is taking the first
steps toward local self-rule,
which it had toy centuries before
the Commusstota took over.
The report* heard here Mid the
current revolt started about sev-
en weegs ago. with east -Tibetans
charging Lhasa otfieiab Were
stoogles of the Chinese Commu-
nists and no longer *»r« the *
true representatives of the Dalai
Lama. "WS
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Serving 4 Progreepive Four County Area of Northeast Texas
ML Pleasant, Texas, Dafly Tbsswi, Friday Evegfag. May 4. 19M
I
Ministerial Council of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
reached this conclusion after
Mi 4w» houro ta NATO hand-
quarters.
Ifcofe -
curbed the mob fury against sup-
pasha of Marrakech who died in Lean chief executive hi«
pay the revenue department from
your personal bank account.”
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