Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 239, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 21, 1959 Page: 1 of 10
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Brownwood Bulletin
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1959
TEN PAGES TODAY
SUNDAY
Flood Danger Eases Off
Nixon To Confer
With Krushchev
Peak Appears Hit
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confer with Soviet Premier Niki-
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other East-West issues.
Mikoyan and
both
United
Russia, also is expected to talk
toured
with Khrushchev about prospects year.
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this morning, but it was reported
8 p m.
Rain guages la Thrifty ran over
r
ing Club is sponsoring the rodeo.
eupation at government ousiness"
"expects to have a bin out either cause at the lack of a tax bill to
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posals.
If
Where It Rained
"we have two major projects be- parcel of bills tossed to the sub-
by Rep. Oscar Laurel of Laredo.
a tax bin "
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6.00 14.70
NORTH
WEST
tea expires July 11
with receipt of a substantial pay the steel industry's top negotia-
SOUTH
ducers. However, moat observers I the progress of the negotiations
j'
minum’s "Big Three” would take senhower held two meetings Mon-
New
For the second day in a
was not disclosed, how-
Joseph F Finnegan. director of i trai
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Wage Agreement
Hoped in Talks
- Opens
Thursday
Tri-Regional
Here Aug. 1-2.
Bangs ..
Coleman
The USW re pr sisals 30,500 of
the more than 58,000 employes of
Blanket .
Comanche
Zephyr ..
6.10
4.50
2.00
2.50
1.00
3.60
4.15
United States stands on these is-
sues and why. The conversations
also will give the vice president
8.50
7.68
effect, farmers who comply with
their individual farm wheat acre-
age allotments may market their
entire crop without penalty and are
.90
.40
1.40
6.50
11.10
4.00
(Alcoa), the Reynolds Metals Co.
and Kaiser Aluminum and Chern-
3.10
2.65
: 2.30
1.80
. 2.10
350
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McDonald and other top steel
union leaders were know n to be
JIM NED CREEK ROARS INTO LAKE BROWNWOOD—V. S. Russell, left and Henry Long of Brownwood
didn’t let rapidly-rising Lake Brownwood waters interfere with their fishing Monday afternoon. Boiling muddy
waters and driftwood passed under lake bridge on Cross Plains highway where some nine inches of rainfall
from Thrifty area poured into mouth of Lake Brownwood. Rain continued to fall in Brown County this morning
which may increase rises in creeks and Lake Brownwood. (Staff Photo)
"The chair would ask you to There was also a bill by Rep.
arrange your affairs so we could Frates Seeligson of San Antonio
the
and
May ..................
Lake Brownwood Dam
De Leon .............
1.87
.54
1.30
Today
.. 2.22
Chuckles
IN THE NEWS
morning.
The announcement was made to
committee before the afternoon
meeting.
"The committee,” Ramsey said.
Brownwood (Official) .
Total to date in July
Total to date in 1959
Total to date in 1958
Average to date .......
Belle Plain ............
Filtration Plant .......
Woodland Heights......
Bluffview .............
Pecan Station .........
Thrifty ................
marks the first time he has ta-
ken part in bargaining talks with
the nation’s top three aluminum
compandes, whose contract with'
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..... 53
.........
San Saba .............
Brady .................
Richland Springs......
Brookesmith ...........
' Goldthwait* ... .......
Winchell ..............
eligible for price support at least
75 per cent parity.
Wesley Roberts at Lamesa., Dick’ Any farmer is eligible to vote
I, Joe Burkett of who expects to produce more than
this afternoon or tomorrow morn-
ing."
The subcommittee was tossed 15
tax bills Monday after the Ram-
sey committee shuffled through the
stack for 15 minutes. The subcom-
mittee is charged with the respon-
sibility of coming up with a bill
for floor action out of. foe total.
Most at the bills under subcom-
mittee coneideration are either se-
Central Texans will join wheat
growers throughout the nation on
Thursday in a referendum to de-
COMANCHE — Bunting decor-
ates Comanche buildings and the
newly-painted Roping Club Arena
awaits more than 150 participants
expected to enter Comanche's 20th
[ Annual Amateur Rodeo Thursday
through Saturday, nights.
PRICE SUPPORT
With wheat marketing quotas in
The vice president, who leaves
Wednesday on an 11-day tour of Frol R. Kozlov.
consider.
BUI Falls To Pass
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the United Steelworkers at Amer-1 steel settlements But with a stands.” He refused to comment
ica expires July 51 long steel strike likely top steel on the prospects of a joint meet-
union officials were hoping the' ing between the disputants Both
trend would be reversed this year McDonald and R Conrad Cooper. |
Prices of admission to perfor- at 11 am. today that the water
mances this year will be 51 for was falling, and unless more rains
adults and 50 cents for children, fall, the community is safe from
Rodeo performances will begin at flooding.
3-Day 1
Total i
4.89
5.82
24.93
18.61
15.68
7.10
5.63
4.80 1
an annual event in Comanche.
their comfort, shows a survey at
local dealers taken Monday. Any-
where from 36 to 90 per cent of
new car buyers specify air con-
ditioning.
MIGHEST N SUMMER
However, one dealer notes a
age of tax measures introduced get some tax bill to the Senate' designed to levy a 2 per cent lux Chamber
in the lower chamber and report this week,” Carr said. i ury sales tax on items costing
a bad to finance state government, j Before quitting Monday, legisla- more than 550.
gRodeo
EY
ddzimmsi
2 ” 4 auttdma
WEATHER FORECAST
BROWNWOOD AREA Partly cloudy
to cloudy and warm with scattered thun-
dershowersr through Wednesday? Low to-
night 69, high Wednesday 88.
Maximum temperature here Monday
82, overnight lew 68 Sunset 7 42, sun-
rise 5 43
the bargaining initiative from the day dealing with the steel walk-
steel industry negotiators out, one with Labor Secretary
Meanwhile, federal mediation James P Mitchell and the other
efforts to end the stedl walkout with Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier.
fore us— an appropriations bill and committee. They were sponsored whether marketing restrictions will
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hopeful that they could obtain a t______-____-______ „ __ .
sizeable wage increase from aiu- increase by the aluminum pro-1 tor. also declined
minum's "Big Three.” which in . Heer, == d==== 2 • "
SUNNY PROSPECTS—Alton "Bud" Curb, 10-year-old son of Mrs Opol Curb of
2418 Durham takes advantage of a "rainy day" and gets the old lawn mower
blade in shop* for the fin* healthy grass and weeds that or* sprouting high from
locally heavy roirjs. After three days of downpour in Brownwood, Bud finds using
the mower impractical now but is going to be prepared to "mow them down"
when th* tun breaks through th* overcast. (Staff Photo)
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Entry books will close at 1 p.m. wood watershed also fell at Pio-
Thursday for rodeo participants, neer and Cross Plains.
Entries will be taken at the chain THRIFTY HARD HIT
her of commerce office on the Thrifty, northeast at Brownwood
south side of the square in Co- was cut off by rising waters early
President Ei-
miers Anastas 1.
ical Corp., iavolved 1B the cog-ithe Mediatioa and Cop-ieve.
on Soviet President
White House meeting largely will
determine the substance of his
conversation with the Soviet pre-
mier
The Nixon-Khrushchev meeting
will be held at the premier's res-
idence It will mark the first
time since the 1953 Geneva sum-
mit conference that Khrushchev
has had a chance to talk with
anyone who can speak with full
authority on U.S. policy.
During his tour, Nixon will be
The giant spending bill got 77-49 cide what type at marketing con-
preliminary approval from House trol program they will have for the
members, but a move to give it 1960 wheat crop.
was flowing level over the
Pecan Bayou Dam on the
Fort Worth Highway.
Civil defense officials predicted
I high water this afternoon in the
। north, and west areas of the city,
and around the traffic circle.
BRANCH STILL RISING
Adams Branch was rushing into
Brown wood with a reported two
foot rise and at the Fisk Ave.
bridge, it was reported to have
risen four inches in 10 minutes.
Coleman Street was impassible at
noon.
A four-inch rain in Santa Anna,
followed by continued rains, prom-
ises a continued rise on Lake
Brownwood, which is flowing three
feet above the spillway and rising
fast. Rains in the Lake Brown-
trade and
i of Whom
States this
York. | chairman of the President's Coun- i
row.! cil at^Economic Advisers. What
Hints At Action Slack of Pecos, Joe Burkett of who expects to produce more than
Ramsey hinted strongly that he Kerrville, R. H (Dick) Cory of 15 acres of wheat for harvest as
would prefer subcommittee mem-1 Victoria., Marshall Bell of San An-1 grain in 1960. except growers who
ben report before this weekend tomo and Ben Atwell at Dallas to participated in the feed wheat pro-
his thinking follows the strong the tax subcommittee. gram in 1959
urging of House Speaker Waggoner Gov. Price Darnel's tax recom- The referendum is held at this
Carr. He reminded lawmakers that mentations were included in the time so that farmers will know
carry any special presidential
message to Khrushchev, the leaders need to know where the
necessary four-fifths majority, ed by two-thirds of the nation's
The action came as weary law- wheat growers in order for quota
makers entered their first full controls to continue in effect. The
week of the third special session program has been in effect for
__________________ Rep. Ramsey of Beckville named several years
lective or general sales tax pro- reps Pete Matthew at Yoakum. ) ELIGIBLE FARMERS
Monday that he had neglected the diet that the future holds an even
home front. "Owing to full preoc- larger increase in air condition-
___•__' _ ___ ed cars, one going all the way House membars by Rep. V. L.
he told a group of builders "I and saying it will be standard 'Bo' Ramsey of Beckville. who
foiled to observe that dry rot had equipment within three or four , named a seven - member subcom-
zotten into mg house." 1 years. mittee Monday to screen a pack-
comment on
WASHINGTON (UPD — Vice- in daily contact with Secretary of
president Richard M. Nixon will State Christian A Herter at Ge-1 ____
___.. 2___• -____— - neva. He also will report to Ei- ni
la's” Khrushchev in Moscow Sun- senhower whenever the occasion 29
day on the Berlin crisis, atomic justifies. ; ER
The vice president will pay of- B3
ficial visits on Soviet Deputy Pre- Jm
was showing no danger to the
road.
Today’s July downpour dump-
ed an additional official read-
ing of 2.22 inches of moisture on
Brownwood, rocketing the three-
day total to 5.03. However, of-
ficial measurements in Brown-
I were far below the amounts re-
corded at other Brown County
points.
for a summit meeting between Klimenti Voroshilov.
the Soviet leader President Ei- Nixon is known to feel that his km
senhower, British Prime Minister conversations with top soviet TVu
Harold Macmillan and French leaders should provide a good op- T
President Charles de Gaulle, portunity for give-and-take dis- • *C
Nixon will confer with Eisen- cussions on" the Berlin and Ger- -
hover Wednesday. While there man issues disarmament, atom- 2:
was no indication Nixon would ic tests, trade and other issues. R2.2
at winter wheat planting time
sponsoring the parade and awards Sunday pns Mirda’aays
will be presented by the Comanche have been concentrated mainly
in areas west and north of Brown-
wood. with highest totals of 8.5
in Bangs and 7.88 in Coleman.
Other highs were 6.5 in May
and 4 5 in Zephyr.
High water was also reported on
Willis Creek, but at 10:30 a.m. it
tur coud be used as a wedge
“to ard obtaining a pay boost
Tres the mtrikebound steel indus-
the Aluminum Co at America continued today
815 4233%
quirk of human nature apparent__._____
in the field. Air conditionined threeyear-old models.
ear sales at has higher priced
4.50!
NEW YORK (UPD -Steel union
chief David J .MeDonald steps
into contract negotiations with
the aluminum Industry today in
the hope of reaching a wage
agreement that could provide a
pattern of settlement of the week-
old steel strike..
McDonald s participation today
On Adams Branch
Dropping water level on Adams Branch and Williams
Branch brightened prospects of no flooding or evacuations
for Brownwood today after* a morning of rain.
"Adams Branch has peaked and is going down,” said
Civil Defense director Jack Broad at 11:45 a.m., "and un-
less we get another hard rain, we've weathered this one.”
No evacuations took place this morning, although police
were warning people on Borden. Creighton, and Brewster
Streets of the possibility of evacuation.
Water in Adams Branch was flowing three-and-one-half
feet over Beaver Street in northwest Brownwood, water
.......<1-50 5.10
i.oo 1.50
........ 1.50 4.50
By JIM HOLMAN , make jump to 90 per cent in the
o me Bulleun Butt ! summer, but drop along with
~ wouldn't order a car to be the temperature in the fall and
put to stock without air condi- winter to a low of 10 per cent.
Boning., one Brownwood deal-' Percentage of air conditioning
« said Monday about the big in cars increases with the cost
Stet to air conditioning car sales. 1 of the. car. ranging from 36 per
“"I ___, ,, cent in the low priced field to an
Brownwood area people buying approximate 99 per cent in the
new cars are particular about “P "
final passage failed to gain the The referendum must be approv-
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tests, disarmament.
to report a tax bill to foe floor
Ites afternoon or Wednesday
regarded it as doubtful that alu- in Washington,
If more than one-third of the
farmers vote for no controls, they CONTRACTS POLIO
will not take effect and price sup-
port would be available at 50 per FORT WORTH (UPD-— Linnia
cent parity Joy Campbell. 17, at Boswell,.
TWO POLLS Okla . who contracted polio while
Voting will be contducted at two visiting relatives here last Tues-
polis in Brown County, at the day. remained in critical condition
Bangs City Hall and in the county today. She was placed in an iron
(See WHEAT on Page 21 lung Monday,
Ramsey, chairman of the House tors gave tentative approval to a !----------------------------:-----
Revenue and Taxation Committee. 52. 400.000.000 appropriations _ mm • • .I
called a meeting of the group for and told Senate members at the Bemr nAem W Ara
3 p.m. today and urged all mem- same time they should include a VW E IWUI ■ V AWE I w ••
bees who have amendments to any full-time insurance commission in
of the bilk to present them to the a gpending Am wo . A MA Am.I.
one-minute morning session and a O)n Merket Coniros
30-second afternoon session be- """
a chance to determine Khru-
shchev's rock-bottom position
The only other American pres-
ent at Nixon's Sunday meeting
with Khrushchev will be U.S.
Ambassador Llewellyn Thomp-
son. Khrushchev and Nixon will
determine what — if anything-
will be made public about their
meeting.
strike of 500,000 basic steel work-' Finnegan said after Monday's
era. sessions that Ms statement of last
Traditionally, the aluminum tn- week that an early solution of the
dustry agreements are based on steel strike was uniikely 'still
MICROFILM SERVICE
P. C. B-X 8066
DALLAS TEX.
Car Buyers Swing
To Air Conditioners
highest priced automobiles.
FACTORY JOBS
"If people are sold on air con-
ditioning. they won’t look at a
== Committee Hopes To Have
-HEBill Ready By Wednesday
! in the low priced range of auto- “ “
I mobiles rarely come without air ’ AUSTIN (UPD _ A house com-
I conditioners, again pointing out mittee announced today it hopes
| the cost ratio to air condition-
LONDON (UPD - Ministar at tog
Housing Henry Brook admitted AB dealers are quick to pre-
A parade at 5 pm. Thursday will at six inches and water was re-
start rodeo festivities. Many dec- ported high, but there were no
orated floats and more than 150 evacuations.
mounted riders are expected. Pr- Adama Branch at Belle Plain
es of 525 , 515 and $10 will be awar- was reported by Civil Defense DU
ded to first, second and third place rector to be 150 feet wide at 11 a.
winners in the parade. m, but falling slightly.
Contestants for rodeo queen win HEAVY RAINS
ride in the parade and one of the A total of 4 4 inches of rata fell
girls will be selected to reign as at the Diamond Horseshoe Lodge
queen of the Comanche rodeo. on the Abilene Highway and 5 in-
The Comanche Lions Club is ches at Owens, added to six inches
5,3
tract negotiations. A strike would ciliation Service. scheduled sepa-
cut off about 50 per cent at the rate meetings with representa-
nation's aluminum production fives of the USW and the 12
The steel union is seeking a 15- leading steel firms. But he re-
cent-an-hour wage increase from mained pessimistic over the pos:
the aluminum companies — the ' sibility of an early settlement of
same demand it has made of the the strike, which has cut off
1 steel industry, the final rejection mills that turn out 90 per cent
of which triggered the nationwide of the nation's steel
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Coppedge, Don L. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 239, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 21, 1959, newspaper, July 21, 1959; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1488647/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.