Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 247, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1963 Page: 1 of 8
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I VOLUME 98
8 PAGES
No 247
Democrats Issue
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KIDNAP TRACK-
DOWNCLOAKED
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IN SECRECY
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By VERNON SCOTT
"At Beyersville, all candidates
Radio Team To
State Contest
Dobbs Still
School
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In Huntsville
T»
ard
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Approves Audit
voters
radio
the next
meeting on the
fell in the pre-dawn hours, in
(See KIDNAP Page 8)
Charles Darby recommended
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(See APPROVES Page ■)
(See DOBBS Page 8)
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^ritz Sommerfeld
Mrs. Pusch Dies
to campa
The run
Fritz Sommerfeld; 80, of Bur-,
Brenham Weather
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Commelce la in the
precess
at 1:80 p. m.
the
Mi-i
will set up shop beside
School Dismissal
22
children
and
and Christmas
Eve.
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Pool of Scientific, Technological Talent
Gulf Coast Science Foundation
Offers Youth Career Guidance
Against Civil
Rights Bill
NEW ADDRISS
roecoro
Fire Department
Gets Donation
Jim
date I
I gets to freezing temper
and etaya there we will
snow or sleet, inatead of
four grandchildren
great grandchildren.
Frog-Freezer
Marches Past
mercury dropping t a low 30
degrees, A 31 degree reading
was reported at 7 a. m. Thun
BRENHAM
Home of
Blinn College
Established 1883
The annual audit, as of Aug.
31. of the Brenham Indapendant
Scheel District, conducted by
At Houston Home Of Burton, Expires
Georgia Man
Awarded Ticket
best birthday I ever had” today
with the 19-year-old son he ran-
somed for $240,000.
It
i%e
52 Dead in Weather Accidents
ously participated in a state
leadership event to take part in
that iw contest again
The Brenham team will be
competing against teams that
were first place winners in each
W the other tune FFA »ft
in the state
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after this change will
be $936,542.90.
unconstitutional invasion of pri-
vate property.
In a recent television speech.
i School Dedication
LQurby, Superintendent
r
ting visibility.
Minot. ND, was buffeted by
winds gusting at 46 m.p.h. to-
Washington County Demo-
crats for J J. (Jake) Pickle is-
sued the following statement to
day
We challenge the Republican
' cdndidate, Jim Dobbs, on h i $
statement quoted in the Ban-
- . aarPrest and over Radio Sia
tion KWHI Wednesday that Jake
Pickle was ‘afraid’ to face him
and discuss the issues at the
But Frank Sinatra Jr. expect-
ed to spend some of the day
। with Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation (FBI) agents in an at-
। tempt to track down the kid-
- napers who held him captive
more than two days.
Up to 5 inches of new snow
fic jam and created one.
Dallas police reported a total
of seven traffic accidents—few-
er than usual—during the hours
¥ J
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JIM DOBBS SPEAKS
Jim Dobbs will speak on tele-
vision, Channel 7, Austin, at
10:30 pm Thursday and at 9:45
x Eriday, . 2. ..
appeared at a night club with
the Tommy Dorsey orchestra,
the same band that gave his
famous father his big start.
Investigation Continues
The FBI would say only that
the investigation was continuing
and no arrests had been made
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Heovy Bliz^rds Grits
Brenham Banner-Press
Member United Press International, The Greatest World-Wide News Service
I Dobbs Republican candi-
fo Congress, has assured
» his stand remains firm
Max Rhinehart were the renters
P3,‘*time- --*
have a new subject. Wednesday
was a frog-freezeweh
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day..
haye I
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DOBBS BAOKER8—Among the Washin gton County Republican leaders who
with Jim Dobbs, Republican candidate for the Tenth Congressional district, a
RETL KN ED SAFE—Frank Sinatra, Sr. tells newsmen outside the Bel Aair
Calif, home of his first wife that his son, Frank, Jr., kidnaped from his motel
room in Stateline. Nev., at gunpoint. had been reTurned safely to Los Angeles.
Sinatra said he paid a $240,000 ransom to the kidnapers. The ransom was paid
in $100, $50 $20 and $10 bills collected from several banka. (NEA Telephoto).
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"is"
civi rights public ac-
aions proposal "is an
of moving to their new lecation
st 3M W. Mata. Manigu
Woodrow Free says that they
will be in full operation Mon-
4m merning. ..
Press said a certain ram was
not a frog-floater but new we
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a prayer
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hebrecan
—Frank Sinatra celebrated 'the
All.schogls of the Brenham
Independent School District will
be dismissed on Friday, Dec
20, at the regular dismissal
time Classes will resume on
Thurudny, Jan 2
that rata that is needed so bad-
ly. ll this happens the frozen
frogs will have plenty of com
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blamed directly or indirectly
he visited Branham Wednesday were, toft to right, James Lehmann, J.r gy.
• wards, Billy Lange and Dobhs, Dobbs, w bo has been an announcer on the Life
Une radio program in Washington, D. a, for the past year, returned to Austin
aignfor. the vacated by Congressman Homer Thornberry,
off election is Tuesday, Dec, 17.
The Brenham Fire Depart -
ment recently received a check
for $25. from Travis Phillips of
Hull. Phillips seat the check as
a donation to < the department
and in appreciation of the good
job-they did in putting out the
fureonNoy. 12 tha. ___ata
a house he was renting in Bren-
ham at 303 ‘Dixie. Mr and Mrs
and six
the Republican candidatexatold
10th District voters his pSTtion
is the same for the Dec. 17 run-
off against Jake Pickle.
"The greatest national trage-
dy of our time occurred” dur-
ing the runoff campaign. Dobbs
said * But the orderly process-
es of government continue and
the process is- one of election...
not of selection ”
Keeps Stance
On the civil rights bill before
Congress, Dobbs said the tra-
gedy does not alter his stance.
Challenge To
Dobbs On Debate
। T have found widespread feel-
Harold Eikenhorst as census|ing in the district that the pro-
poned was an unofficial 1 de-
gree at Perryton.
Eight traffic deaths were
IND COLDER
Needy cloudy through Fr-
day with occasional light rain
er driuzle, turning colder end
windv nenin Fridav. Lew ra-
poeta Mnighe « to as. High
emarted Friday M to <1.
eadings for Mb ear period
ending at 7 am Thursday: Max.
#MsalemaHj3
arcus"
rive in Brenham aboand J __
the Gay Hill fire truck - 2 -"F -
BRENHAM, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12,1963
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storm hit the Great Plains last snow helped winter grain and
weekend. Texas counted- 8 pastures. *■
Milwaukee. Wis, and Muske- the Panhandle almost * to the
gon, Mich. central par of Texas today. It
Norris Marchant of Mion,
Ga , was ticketed for failing to
yield the right of way Wednes-
day when be ran into Raymond
Glens of Brenham at the inter-
section at S Market and E.
Alamo.
The accident occurred Ra t
11:45 a. m Neither party was
injured and both cars were
driven away
D A Zwernemann of La
Grange had an automobile acci-
drat Wednesday MM p.
m when he failed to make the
curve frqmn Farewell to Prairie
Lee and turned hie car over
He was not injured.
that people drive to their jobs,
er across the northern portion The low accident rate was at-
(See BLIZZARD Page 8) (See GLAZED Page 8)
Funeral services will be held
Saturday at 2 p m. at the Unit-
ed Church at Christ in Burton
with Rev Jewel Johnson, the
pastor, officiating Burial will
be in the La Bahia cemetery.
The Foehner Funeral Home of
Burton is. In charge at arrange-
ments
of UHil i and Mary Jane
Bernes; secretary for the board
of Trustees and also member
were appointed by acting chair-
man. W.J.Ehlert, to work up
a rough plan le be discussed at
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Henry J. Boehm. wne ezasp—4 .
by the Brenham School Board
and Dr. Hans Jonassen. Chair-
man of the Department o f ,
Chemistry at Tulane University,
will wind u p t h e Series on
March 14. About 600 s e l e c ted
students and teachers from Hor-
ii* GHIPANOE Bege |)
ton, died in a Brenham host 1
pital Wednesday at 3:55 p.m - I
following an illness of about a E
-r -
Survivors include one daugh- I
ter, Mrs. Lester Matthies o ( • m
Burton; two sons, Willie Som- ■
merfeld of Smithville and A- ■
trsd SommemH of Burton, ■
that had any particular connec- fell in the pre-dawn hours, in
tion with the case. parts of the Great Lakes area
Frank Jr. was picked up early and northern plains. Snow cov-
Wednesday by a private Bel-
UpEERNoNSCoTT. In the frigid West,, a fresa started clearing over the Pan-
UP! Hollywood Correspondent surge of arctic air swen anu handle but forecasters said an-
WEST LOS ANGELES (U„, from °therftnortherSPkockwn other Arctic storm is om the
across the Great Plains, whip- ' Way:
ping snow into the air and cut- The lowest temperature re -
c. j. back the,..... “pbnohgde Enge
las St ..... a
of Trustees Wednesday night at
Ms regular meeting.
The Board also approved the
withdrawal at $300,000 from the
new high school building fund
to pay for contractor's estimates
No. nine and ten.
A concrete test allowance of
$500 was set aside for use by
the architect in performing con-
crete tests, but the supervising
architect. Edward P Hilde ■
brandt, has reported that n o
extra tests are needed This
amount has been deducted from
the present contract price of
$937,042.90. The contract price
The FBI refused to comment Gale warnings were posted cape a freeze. Lows of 38-45
on progress in efforts to find for Lake Superior and sections were predicted for tonight. The
whether an organized gang, or of the New England coast. . Valley got a few sprinkles, but
a band of reckless amateurs. Highways from the Rockies, no real rain,
kidnaped Frank Jr. Sunday to Pennsyivania were sheathed Some Benefits Reported
night from a motel room at a in ice and snow. , Generally, the storm did
Leko Tahoe spa an the Califor-’ A United' Press international more good than harm. It was
nia-Nevada border The youth count Bhowed at least 52 per- , not bad enouah to rum unhar-
was taken from hie room only sony dead in weather-connected vested cotton on the Spath
minutes before he was to have accidents since the wintry Plains and the rain, sleet and
High School students and
teachers in the Gulf Coast
area will soon have an oppor-
tunity to examine In death the
activities and responsibilities of
today's working scientist and
engineer
It was announced this week
that a distinguished group o f
educators and profession;
al people who have made Im
portant contributions to the ad
vancement of science ana tech
nology, have pooled their t a l.-
ents to provide motivation and
assistance to young people hav-
ing an interest in scientific and
technical work.
Dr. T. P Wier Jr., chairman
of the newly chartered Gulf
Coast Science Foundation, staled
this week that the objectives of
the group will be to provide an
available career guidance
for young people and will ac-
tively service the wide range
of interests of students and
teachers by lending assistance
to the organization and imple-
mentation of a variety of c a -
reer -oriented educational pro-
grams, including student sem-
mars, field trips, and research
projects.
Dr Wier also announced that
a Distinguished Lecture Series
has been scheduled to acquaint
students and teachers with the
problems and practices of pro-
fessionals in the fields of science
with the problems and practices
of professionals in the fields of
SANTA‛8 COMING
Santa Ou will er
Heavy snow and hazrdous Ar
driving warnings were posted 1 Be I L X A K
from Pennsylvania to most of UI l J-cA/bQ
■downstair New York and New
England ’ More than six inches T Ay A vm
of fresh snow were expected in IN | I A IF ||
New England by nightfall. 4• UHMal
Nine inches of new snow fell
at DuBois. Pa , during the u. „ ... _ ....
night Philipsburg, Pa., had By United Press International
eight inches and Bradford, Pa. Sleet, snow and frozen rain
had seven. Five inches fell at 1 coated Texas from the top of
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Mrs. Minnie Pusch, 82, widow
of Henry Pusch, of Houston, a
former resident of Brenham,
died at her residency Wednes-
day at 4:40 p. m
, Survivors mclude five uuugn-
By United Press Interational ,
Snow and freezing rain knifed into the East today I
and turned highways into slippery ribbons of death An- I A DAE D A DT
other major storm front moved down from the Rockies LAKIzD T All 1
with winds of nearly 50 miles an hour. I
ter», Mrs. Otto Stebner, Mrs.
August Stebner, Mrs. Herbert
Braun, Mrs. G. E. Adams and
Mrs. Thurman Tedder, a I I of
Houston; seven —grandchildren
and two great grandchildren.
Funeral service* will be held
Friday at 9:30 am at the
Northside Lutheran Church i'n
Houston with Rev. S. T. Sch -
roeder officiating. Services
will be continued at the Bren-
ham Memorial Chapel Friday
at 2 p m with burial in the
United Church at Christ Ceme-
tery at Burton.
day. The mercury stood at «3
degrees above zero and visibil- 1 on1,slick roads or fog. Rain still
ity ranged from zero to a quar- el in East Texas and as far
termile. south as Houston. Early morn-
Blizzard warnings, calling for ing temperatures in Dalhart
"We still have some kidnap- winds up to 50 m.p.h., were is- and Amarillo were 6 degrees,
ers to catch." one FBI agent sued for a large area from the The Lower Rio Grande Valley,
said as friends and family ga- Dakotas down to Nebraska and where early crops of tomatoes,
thered around the young singer Iowa and up into Minnesota sweet peppers, sweet corn and
to celebrate his safe return. and western Wisconsin. squash are" in the fields, will es-
organized program which will
enable the faculties and * t u -
dents at high schools in the Gulf
Coast area to lake advantage of
the talent of the abundance of
scientific personnel who would
welcome the opportunity to as-
sist education processes if given
the mechanism to. doing so.
Career Guidance
"Jake Pickle has appeared an
“the same platform with Dobbs
at a meeting in Austin ar
ranged by the Texas Farm Bur
eau and another meeting a r -
ranged by Texas Labor nions
At the latter meeting, news
papers rep Ml *8 that Dobbs
became so fustered Ito offered
to "Map outside and fight ' This
fs not considered within the
dead. Indiana . and Illinois 6. , Ice and sleet covered streets
Traffic on U.S. 77 south of 1 in the Dallas - Fort Worth area.
Purcefll, Okla., piled up four Fort Worth workers started ear-
miles deep late Wednesday ly to their jobs to avoid a trar-
nigh.
THE MAGIC VOICEThese Brenham schoolstudents were among the 1300 who
had visited ths new Southwestern Bell Telephone building open house by Thurs-
day morning, and hundreds more were expected to see how their voices are
transmitted before the day to over. Herr George Wehrung, tol maintenance man.
is telling the students that the equipment they are watching "recognizes the
calls from different cities."" it is used to test the long distance circuits and keep
them in perfect working order. The Open House tours will be conducted through
Thursday night, with the public invited to come from 7*. m. to 9 p.m. Thurs-
day. Refreshments are being served by the Brenham Elementary and Junior
School Parent-Teachers
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4, J
were invited to speak but ONLY I
Pickle and Ritter showed up at I
the meeting at the SPJST Hall 1
Dobbs failed to show
"A» supporters of Jake Pick ।
le, we are proud that he is not |
trying to win a televinion Oscar ।
for acting, but la asking the I
people of the Teh th Congres - ’
sional district to elect him at
their representative a n d la tak-
ing his campaign statements and
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his district.
"Jake Pickle’s platform i nd
position on major issues have
been clearty stated in news-
papers, an radio, and by him
personally in open public'
meetings, two at which were
held in Washington County.
"We invite Mr Dobbs to
put aside his Washington. D C.
radio seript and actually tell the
people how he fool* on issues
vital to the people of the Tenth
Congressional District -meh
a* social security for retired
workers, the farm program, and
the rural electric program o f
the Lower Colorado River Auth-
ority.
"We think it particularly i n-‘
appropriate for Dobbs louse
the word 'afraid' in reference
to Jake Pickle — a veteran of
tune major naval bottles of
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The Foundation willmakei lt“yr
nee ring. University of Texas,
will open the lecture s e r i s *
February 1 at Clear Creek High
Schoot Auditorium. DrATex:
anderDessler, Chairman of the
Space Science Department, Rice
University, will deliver the
second lecture February 2 2 .
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open house and dedication serv-
ice for the opening of the new
high school.
The Board approved an ease-
ment requested by Uto city at
Brenham for the stringing ef
utility lines along school proper
ty -
The Board followed the sug -
geelion of Ehlert to co eperate
with the city of Brenham and
Washington County on delta.
quent tex collections.
The Brenham FFA Farm
Radio Broadcastiigtamfhat
placed first to the Area III FFA
Leidership Contest will partici-
pale to the State FFA I radar
chip Contest to be held at Sam
Houston State Teerhan Col-
lege in Huntsville Saturday
Tram members are Carter
Derail Jr, David Roue ana
Lary BMtor -Can A Wendr.-
Brenham High Schooi Yer Mian
al Agriculture teacher and FFA
Advisor serves as team coach
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Blanton, Ben F. & Blanton, Carolyn W. Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 247, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1963, newspaper, December 12, 1963; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1558184/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library.