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BRENHAM HIGH School s new
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collapse of the* government.
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budget would b< avaikable. until the of
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athletics.
modeling, posture, maketup, charm,
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But more than a score of po-
ttcemen guarded the small—butd-
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The report will cover operations
of the two systems as off Febru-
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the Banner - Press, it ought to
‘havea"Tnger, and more prosper
' otis future He was introduced by
Tommy Blake of the Banner-Press
staff. Kiwanian Roy Wiese report-
GIRL FOR EICKENHORSTS
Mr. and Mrs. BenEickenhorst of
' Brenham are the parents of a girl
By HAL WaMAERTZ
United Press International
BOONVILLE, Ind. (UPI) - A
MRS. JOHN D. ROGERS - . .
gardening to her tavorite hobby.
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BULLETIN
Crime Stuns Community
Shelton said he expected simi-
By HENRY RAYMONT
’ United Press International
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Communist death sentence. If the
trial ends Friday, the three-judge
court is expected to postpone'the
verdict and possible sentence un-
til Saturday.
Powers told the packed court-
—-HAH--ADDLD-that.Rrenham
has many assets that give it a spe-
cial' flavor. He suggested that the
Kiwanians take a good look at their
town’s assets, and use them to ad-
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school:
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in the'
of the
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he said “If all the folks here are
like the ones I’ve met m my job at
nounced by the Brenham Memorial
Chapel.
only ones we could recognise) she
said, “About the biggest project
Cow Bell
Newest type 'fan ckib is for
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mumrva . y
Leopoldville late"tnday t -chai-
-------ptace ts targe enough to be grow-
ing, and to be interesting. But it’s
----small enough to let everyone have
their own personality, and not be
swallowed up by largeness, as is
often the case in places like Hous-
..2 "ton‘nr Austin.”
Mrs~JohnDi Rogers, whobe-
lieves the harder you work at
things, the more fun ' you have,
practices what she preAches.
"I ve always though t we all can
do something to pay for the little
spot we occupy,” she said, sitting
on a shade - covered patio at her
North Park street home.
, "That’s why I like club work.”
She is well-known for her work
in the American Legion Auxiliary.-
the Fortnightly Clb, Brenham Art
■Ghtb; and’ Girl hew al aetivitias. -*-
“But my first interest is the Sa-
lem Lutheran Church," she added.
On a tour though her garden.
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&,L. Keahey who is reportedly re-
tiring from teaching and is pln-
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area sex
- head of the society, moade the ap-
peal,- She also said the'society is
beginning to receive requests for
clothing for school children. Per-
sons who would like to make do-
nations’ of clothing are asked to
Takes Place
dock at right, Less than two hours
after trial hegan. Powers pleaded guil-
ty to charges t NEA Radiophoto). : '
an aggressor
BEDDING SOUGHT
—+i rEa-- emrgmai pavanumdm- sMuaamg.z. i.
HYArr’S KWANIS TALK
District budget for the next
year will be disc assed m. a
overwhelmingly to punish the Do-
minican Republic for intervening
in the internal affairs of Vene-
zuela.
A large’majority of the delega-
tions from the 21 American re-
publics present at the sixth con-
sultative assembly of foreign min-
May Punish
Price, director of the school
Mrs. Lyles has studied exten-
sively and has taught both private-
ly and in colleges for a number of
years. She has also conducted clas-
ses for handicapped children, a -
cording to“Mrs7 Price.
She teaches a’course especially
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Tcnta12 >u rity
Council Backing
On Congo
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School Bud{[Ct
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ended up calling square dancing
at every birthday party in the area,
and had to give it up.
“But square dancing is good,
wholesome fun. I wish somebody
would start it again "
Then she added, "I once met a
woman who said, ‘Oh, You're from
Brenham. That's where everybody
has so much fun ' I guess that’s
why I like it here "-JIM HYATT.
Brenham Weathe^
Considerable cloudiness with scat-
tered thundershowers and little
change in temperatures through
Friday. Low tonight 74, high tomor-
row 90. Readings for 24-hours up
to 7 a.m. today: Max. 91, Min. 75.
7 a m 75. sunrise 1:51, sunset 6:59.
-fiend who butchered an
Bids Are Opened On
Farm Road Project
Power And Water
Audit About Ready
The audit of the City of Bren-
ham’s Municipal Light and Power
System and the Water Department
will be delivered to the city "pos-
s i b l y Thursday” according to
FRIDAY IS
EXPECTED TO
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U-2 Pilot To Have
Right To Make -
Final Speech
Hammarskjold originally had
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nation.
In the face of mounting Latin
American support for the Vene-
zuelan demand for political and
economic Sanctions against the
Dominicans, short only of armed
Latin. American nations indicated
Amarillo. Sunderman replaces today they were .ready to vote
restore secession-minded Ka-
a prison even to save my own
■ ' Tie -aid in a low voice.
"TKe pistol was given to me
and I took it strictly for hunting.”
Prosecutor Roman A. Rudenko,
• vear I veteran of the Nuern-
9c.
Sheriff Robert Shelton
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Dominicans.
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edthat he visited the Boys Camp baby contests. "This last one was
at La Grange, and that counselors
Blanchard on Dec. 7, 1914, at San
Antonio.
Mr. Christian had been living in
Washington County for abqut a
year moving here from Ledbetter
Survivors include his wife; on
son. Weldon Christian.of Brenham:
one daughter, Mabelle Christian of
Brenham; one brother, Albert
Christian of Miami, Florida; and
Ineendiary Devices—------
Armstrong Nd 33: Harlen Witte _oroshilov then introduced in
mer-tnsthiart T m- 3 ” -em-rR-s-
Minister Vasily V. Kuznebpov who
conferred -i. with Hamrparskjold
privately -for 70 minutes MWednes-
day. Details of. the talk were kept
.wroomhe mever c-zebought -of ,
the.date of bis May 1 flight, let
Mn.‘ alone that it might wreck the
the country.
Emmett O. Hashfield, a tatooed
toymaker with a record of rape
and perversion dating back * 33
years, calmly sat in his cell at
the Warrick County Jail while an
angry crowd of townfolk milled
abow outside
The City of
Hospitality and
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id question the. statement of
w tnesses, and he" stood in” his
p - ner’s box to speak .
"Unfortunately, nobody but my:
self knows that I could not Y kill
born at the Milroy Hospital Thurs-
day at 7:07 a. m. She weighed- sev-
en pounds, 12% ounces, and has
my fifth,” she said. “After all.
Teachers for the Washington,
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nounced for the 1960-61 school year Richter and M s
• Hammaiskjold s refusal to Powers Si
the U N force in the Congo1
has- arrived in Brenham to assume
his duties at the school. He is cur-
rently looking for a house for his
family a nd-hopes to be able to
bring them here next week. At
present his wife and three-year-old
son are staying with relatives in
Gladewater. Sunderman comes to
Brenham from the University of
olo "do. where this summer he
complefedworkom his PhD inFet
ucation. I’he degree is to be granted
on Aug 26. A nativ’of Dp Queen,
Ark., Sunderman, did his under-
graduate work at two colleges in
* Arkansas and received his master’s
degree from West Texas State in
Canyon, Texas. He taught and
coached for one year each at De
Queen and Hope, Ark. and for five
years wa ceunseller and assistant
VOLUME 95. . . , BRENHAM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUG. 18, 1960
yues- sheca—- - ___ s,
Powers Trial Near Conclusion
sic and Dancihg as E,> mistresa
to the sfaff. according-to Mrs J (
principal at a junior high school
For 1960-61 Term -
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tinned Hashfield at the request of
Chicago Detective Chief) James
McMahon to see if the 53 year-
old ) former blacksmith had—any-
by Count Schbol Superintendent
W. O Danhhaus Hill No 3 ‘Ov ta l :■
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FSPEETATTR
the courtroom The mother,
Ida'" /Powers, came to the
Wednesdax at the home of Pearline pty collecerve snetfnsagr
Murray, negro. Mrs. C. A. DeWare, -
the event of a one sister, Mrs. Delroy Manrossi
Tof Houston, three nieces and three Year-old girl andaltossed her dis-
nenkews 1 membered body into the Ohio
Funeral arrangements will be an- River was questioned today about
- other unsolved sex* crimes around
Herbert C. Schroeder, public ar-. ,
countant, whose firm is doing, the thing to do with recents Chicago
Trustees had called a special ses
sion f<4 consider th*- budget
"The new/high school principal
and I' m a y
lafternoonisession after staying in
her hotel' this morning lest she
' disturb" her son. Mrs. Barbara
Powi irswatchec - her—husband-
ing. keeping the townfolk at. a
distance., the crowd, which Harold Sunderman
swelled at one. time to more than
200. dwindled during the night to
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AN APPEAL for a bed. mat-
I’m working with now is the Bren-
ham Art Museum. Our biggest fund
raising evederhe been the Wo-
manless Wedding, the Baby Con-
test, and the Lions Club carnival.”
The Congolese were inspecting
luggage and identity cards in a
search for "Belgian spies" anti
disguised paratroopers when they
overheard some of the Canadians
speaking,. This apparently
misled' the ‘Congolese into be-
Bv BRUCE W. MUNN
United Press International 1
UNITED NATIONS, NY. (PD
— Secretary general Ogg Ham- a
marskiold will ask the Secvrity I
Council this Saturday fefa-shew—4
of confidence in his dispute with
Congolese Premier Patrice Lu-
mumba. informed . sources said ‘j
today.
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H K. Christian, 64, of Route 3 Where Trial
(Highway 290 West), a painting con
tractor, died suddenly while work- This is the courtroom in “Hall .of
ing aj the home of Edwin H Cdlumns" in Moscow where American
Schulze on 502 South Baylor Thurs U-2 pilot Francis G. Powers is on trail
day shortly-after am on espionage charges. Powers is' in
a phystetanwgzzmmensi r”
sadudcath was '......Questioned About Other Crimes -
Born August 14, 1896, at Seguin,
he was educated at jt-y
He was married to Hulda orr
as well as a course.
tang Province to' the central •
government.
The Congolese premier has se- J
rtous’fy- qustiee,Haiftiiai- N
skjold's good faith, because of |
this refusal- He warned Wednes-
Assistant Superintehds nt ( harles
‘ berg war crimes trials, stared at
Powers
r—AYotr are- aware," he inquired,
that at 68,000 fet (the altitude
at which Powers says the
also make suggestions for changes ‘ ■ was fking when hit) it 'S
in the 1960-61 school pi- ram,’ he diffioultto hunt game.’
said. ."but those suggestions"have "Y- I understand." Powers
not’been completed." said " I his was to be used only
The bud?- hetring s -. p. I had a forced landing or
anvone who wishes to discuss the something "—H
school budget, he said. . During "the exchange over the
Superintendent Frank w Allen* pistol, Powers family sat tensely
son said no inf OrR iti n on the in their .marble box at the rear
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64, Dies Of E
Heart Attack-
6,500 I he"shock soon gave wav . _g,
. ‛ . hearing F rday,
to anger and a menacing crowd , *
u u x i .u . । home economics
gathered atound the,. High School.
Wednesday night, yelling. Bring Aecidtant ih. riten,
him out. . .lynch him "
CIVIC CLUB LEADER
FINDS WORKING FUN
secret and it was not known ■
whether the Russian would carry 7
his objections into the Secutity - L
Council’ session E
vamtage Brenhamsnd-occm mrees,anaim xomans czaz
hav a long and fabulous history. ( •
tress and other bedding was made
*na1” e8dpmrelayb*-enham Bene-
volcht society following the fire
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questton.-"You know how ma ny
we had? Two hundred." She finally
Darby said the distr ict "A Boa d of
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the ground after they were dis- ■
armed, then were beaten ‘Tag-L 5
chereau- wa repone- s L.....- . 0,
Paris summit conference or even
.lead to military conflict. -
■ Do youthink now yosmd your- -
country a good or had service?"
asked: Chief Judge Viktor
Borisoglelisky.
■ I would say very bad." Pow-
. CIS replied ’ ■ ( '
"Did it occur t you) that a
flight might provoke military con-
flict"". - ■
"Fhe people who- sent" me
should have thought of that.”
1 he prosecution had called
another technicar expert', Lt. Col.
KA Voroshiloy; at the afternoon
session when Powers made his
.dramatic plea of pacifism.
Identifies Pistol
Voroshilov identified__a-pistel
equipped withKET-e-as part
h gear found * in 'Powers'
high altitude plane when it, was
"downed, over Siberia.
Powers had been advised he
ary 28. the end of the fiscal year, lar requests from other police of-
he said. ........ I- _.jfisials today.
Schroedef said up to four itief "Roaeieru:mKpF and
wrked-en-the power and water. without a belt in his jail cell to
audit during the past few Weeks , prevent tx'is'siHlesuuKlivnTnvTtTfT
...a-.......- ............-------- Wednesday he abducted Avril
Bryan Woman joins proomenenTersondimtKdbctor,tomha
caF Hitsie- School-gpemtar-mutasdavmhech
WASHINGTON (UPI)— Sen.
John F. Kennedy was forced to
give ground today on his mini
....... Senate
accepted a ompromise Demo-
erptie plan which would trim
the weasurv’a coverag.
what's cuter than a baby All you I
need is a new crop, and away you I
go." I
One of her fond activities is Girl
Scouting Several years ago she
began teaching square dancing
The git is found the activity so pop-
ular. a Saturday afternoon dance -
was planned
. "Oir rules said nvrrv uir| had ;
to have a date . . no girls danc-
ing with girls.” Then she grinned
and her smile answered her own
-- • Powers L. Prison... ” rthha
■ '- _ American U-2 pilot Francis GAry pleaded guilty to spying for the 17 S. . . thawhih hpedi
_______ sested right. is shown in the against Russia, less than two hours - sent him over the Soviet
prisoner s box during his"spy"triat * after ‘ the trial began. INEA Trie- ■ -Union should have thought of the
in Moscow. Seated at left is Soviet de- photo). . consequences-----?---——' -■—
fense counsel Mikhail Grinev. Powers . • ' Friday is expected to be the
last day e-f the trial.
The .prosecution and defense
aor expected to make their sum-
mation speeches.......Then Power s.....~
will have "the right to make a
•final speech to the court.
Verdict Saturday
The seemingly naive Virginian
clearly was trying to avoid a
p,
JIM HYATT, interning summer
reporter at the Banner -Press,, dis-
icussed his impressions of Brenham
with the Kiwanis Club at its regur
lar meeting Wednesday. "Most
towns have three kinds of people,"
he said. " I’he kind who have al-
ways beeh there, the kind that
, move there, and the kind that
ought to move some place else.
• But. the people of Brenham I’ve
met all seem to be'of the first two
types. Few of them would really
like to live elsewhere." said Hyatt.
Having lived in other, small and
large towns in.Texas, he compared
them with Brenham, pointing out
that the Washington County seat
has advantages of both a large and
■ small town. "In 'Brenham, the
Tpachprs Selected thrshpioprrwalmng the U2
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_ , showcases placed around the
In R ural Schools < ■
' . - .. ; ; ryom.
• ____’— | The crime stunned this 'youth
Mrs Carita Lyles of Bryan hasern Indiana coal, mining town of
joined the Brenham School of Mu-
Congo Beaten
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......■ -By GEORGE SIBERA- . ----—
United Press International
LEOPOLDVILLE. The Congo (UPI)—Native Congo-
lese troops disarmed three Canadian soldiers of the
United Nations emergency forces and beat them with
rifle butts at nearby Ddjili Airport tday.
The three men were taken to hospitals but were not
reported in serious condition. They were identified as
- ---Capt. J. C. A. Taschereau of Quebec; Cpl, R. T. Conroy of
Kingston and signalman Andre Mathieu of Montreal, all
with the 57th Canadian Signals Squadron. -
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day he would send his own troops
into Katanga unless "neutral ob-
servers" were dispatchd there
immediately by the U nihed Na-
tiens.
Lumumba's positign was
backed bv Soviet DeputyForeign
By HENRY SHAPIRO .
United Press Internattonat
MOSCOW (UPI) Francis G.
Powers fought for his life today
with a disavowal of his U-2 flight
#—ad bed- »ei vice'' i<« his country
and an emotional assertion that
h could not kill anyone even in
‘self defense.
BUSTY WRITES BOOK
Dallas, Tex. (UPI) — A sign
burlesque queen Busty Brown, 35..
told reporters Wednesday she has
quit dancing to write a book en-
titled: ’"Don't Call Me Busty."
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force, the United States was ex-
pected to agree, to collective sev-
erance of diplomatic relations.
'However.1 many n a t i on s ap-
peared reluctant to support sanc-
tions going beyond diplomatic isb-
lation.
Private Session
Foreign ministers of the hemi-
sphere began their secopd day'of
emergency consultation with a pri-
vate door session to discuss a
compromise penalty formula that
would satisfy Venezula.
ecaegmeawNe———meHpp*ee —0
A, suggesed compromise to be
submitted for conference approv-
al would call for all member na-
tions to sever relations with the
Dominicans and leave each free
to adopt other sanctions as it saw
fit.
This was coupled with a propo-
sal for the establishment of a con-
ference "watchdog" committee to
supervise political development ।
in the Daminican Republic and
tshersieue "east Calendar of Events
There are 16 teachers for six Prairie Hill No 7: Tula A Smith, -------- ■
-white schopls, and 20 Hattis, k Bradiey am Marter J +Aust 18: -7
eight negto schools, Bradley . . Regutar meeting of the Presby. —
w.. . cl 7 ,u . . IndpendenceNo 28: Mable I iterian Women of the Church, at
; White teachers in the county iD- .. , . z: w , , n . .1 -
,7. . I Heard and Enuie I Woods 7 to pm at the church.
elude the following instructors." . . . lwwi.V,
A Washington County farm road pjesn Hill No 3 John Ad . Armstrong No. J3 V"‘ B "i- August .
nrntmt S not of s9 144 385 in con- Pleasant H , 0 Jizronn Ad Hams American Legion Post and Aux-
prrjeois parsotasujtedrin cqnedicks. Bernard Hole, Mrs. Emble William Penn N Sl Mat -iliary meeting and installation of
state "wSX separtmen?-wte graharsehick, and Mrs. Wallinethewachool. U^t. St. । officers. 8pm. Home.
The 574,737 Washington County Prairie Hill No, Joseph Kline- Goodwil No H H m Koi- Meeting of parents of al, dw
iol is larm RoaN 1015 orringlsporn, I eRoy Thielemann Mrs nard Anne Ma K i t I 7 I members ancold members of Guys
structures in <1 surfacing of )8 Lydia ust, and Mrs Emma Seek- • Mac Burrell, MiIliie( I Wiliams and Dolls Dance Club, 7 30 pin.
and weight problems for teen-age miles from Farm Road nearer, . । . 1 r ” ( leveland M age' “ Lee at,st Peter s Parish House
girls and adults, said Mix Price. Wilam Penn to the Bluff commu- -Harrisburg No 11. William Tock: Simpson, and Da ene 1 Howardi Pilot cuh exgcutive board meet-
. Reg.stratidn for classes wHi he- mtv. • horn -Jn, Harold Klingsporn, and Mt FalN INittie’ I ■ ing at home of Miss t lara Ham-
WAuAuit AJ WIlll IIIWI Mill HRtf! EFW BHRWIH fut HU- wwwJCW- -------------gjuk liLldUX My..- sr.. ■----lie, .bjen on Gm-mine Road 6:30 p.
Saturday, Sept 3 at Mrs Price’sE Rubv of San Marcos and M. Wesley No. 14: Leroy Boenker, ‘nice Mane b -N .....e “ ■' P Os’# uniting " p.
home - x --ijg IEi Ruby Jr., inc. of ustin land Mrs Gueruel! Ahiru.'. alEuwuson- — — _____ ____ 4 -----
lieving they were French-
speaking Belgians. . .
Boarding Plane
The Canadians were boarding Holstein CGw breeders. Dawn
rn^F- *' take their—unit to—Rufi,,5.—wcars__liuL..club.S_.-shirt
Coquilhatville in Equatorial Pro- on the Monroe. Wis., farm of
vince and Luluabourg in Kalki.1 her grandmother. Holstein
(Cortinued on Page 6) i breeder John Rufi__
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