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BRENHAM
NO,111
BRENHAM, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5,1957
VOLUME 92
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US SOLDIER ‘SACRIFICED’
SHAMEFUL DIPLOMACY
WISE ACTION BY CITY
STORM PHONE INSTALLED
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gauge of
according to
US. Officials Declare
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an expert with nitroglycerin.
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Calendar of Events
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To Present Indian Ceremony
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guinea pig in a contempt of Con-
and Jimmie Mould-
Hughes
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House today staged a fight with-
lie Murray, Jim Be-
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2 Arrested In Corpus
In $75,000 Theft Case
KWHI To Broadcast
Bryan - Garland Tilt
45 Students Enroll
For Summer School
Classes At 2 Schools
Is^Expected To Pass - -
House Opens Civil Rights Fight
. The City Of
Hospitality
Boston
Chicago
AREA BELOW
COLUMBUS TO
GULF WARNED
101 (XX)
100 200
Annual Dairy
Day Saturday
Woman Is No-Billed
In Gamblers’ Death
Building Total
Running Ahead
Of Last Year
MANY PROTEST
SURRENDER OF
0 TO JAPAN
families to Pampa.
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BUT BAN MUST
BE LINKED TO
INSPECTIONS
Little Change Due
In Local Oil Values
classify the cattle.
A chicken barbecue wil be ser-
ved at non. Tickets, priced at $1
each, may-be purchased from of-
ficers and directors of the'Wash-
ington County Dairy Assoeiation
HEAVY RAINS, CONTINUE
IN RED RIVER AREA
Heavy rains contanued to
who investigated the Nesbit shoot-
ing, recommended that Mrs. Strip-
ling be no-billed. .
FORT WORTH (UP) — A Tar-
rant county grand jury refused to-
day to indict Mrs. Lois Stripling
on a murder charge in the May
21 pistol slaying of gangster Jack
Nesbit.
Mrs. Stripling is the attractive
31-year old widow at the late gam-
bler Howard Stripling. Of late, she
had been known as the girl friend
of Nesbit.
Mrs. Stripling claimed she shot
Hesbit in self defense when he
came at her in her apartment aft-
er she told him she wanted to
break off their relations. She said
she feared he would kill her.
Nesbit was known in the Fort
Worth underworld and by police as
Soldier Will Get
Fair Trial
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WASHINGTON (UP)- Adminis-
Wants Agreement
To Bar H-Bomb ~
Use In War
the watershed of flooded Red Riv-
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Woodrow A. Free
Given Commission
Painter Confesses
Murder At Dallas
at Bren-
p.m.
bonds at $17,500 each, e
- Warrant Sent
• Michigan authorities said a war-
rant charging the Thorpes with
embezzlement has been sent to
Texas.
The Thorpes could be returned
mine and industry.
Classes in English, mathemat-
ics and history are being offered
In three classes. Monday through
Saturday. The classes begin at
7:30 a.m. and end at 12 noon,
and are for one and one-half
hour duration each.
Instructors Include Keahey.Mrs.
John Maynard and Robert Fuchs.
Keahey said under the present
plans for operating the summer
school six days a week, the class-
es will end July 28.
This year’s first day enrollment
is a little less than last year, ac-
cording to Keahey.
T he
SPECTATOR
County Agricultural Agent J.
W. Stuffleberne, Jr. said the en-
tries will be limited to 4-H Club
and FFA boys and girls who are
expected to exhibit about 60 head
FORT WORTH (UP) — The
weather bureau announced today
that residents along the Colorado
River in Texas can expect exten-
sive flooding of lowlands below
Columbus to the Gulf.
"There will be extensive flood-
ing of lowlands for several days
A heavy shower which hit
, Brenham. shortly before 3 P-
m. dumped .7 of an inch of
rain on the city up to 3:40 p-m.
June Si
Business and Professional Wo-
men’s Club members who wish to
go to Girl Scout Day Camp meet
in front of Hohlt’s State between
5:30 and 6 p.m.
June *t
St. Paul’s Lutheran Ladies Aid
meeting, 3 p. m. at church.
Monthly planning supper of
Sunday school of First Baptist
Church, 6 p.m.
"’Twenty-three members of the
Brenham Lions Club received
awards for perfect attendance
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County Judge Odis Tomachef-
sky said Wednesday he expected
the total evaluation of oil lands
in Washington County to be
about the same as last year—per.
haps a little higher.
The firm of Prichard and Ab-
bott of Houston, evaluating engi-
neers, was hired by the county to
Family night supper
ham Country Club, 6:30
Potts Victim
DALLAS (UP) —; Mrs. Stella
Lucille Farmer, 19. was counted
as Dallas’ 17th polio base at 1951
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. (UP)
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Thorpe were
awaiting return to Michigan today
on charges of absconded with $75,-
000 in automobile license fees.
Thorpe, 57, and his wife, Ann,
41, were arrested by FBI agents
Tuesday in a cocktail lounge they
sub-leased a month ago.
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A diplomat is supposed t •
bring home the bacon without
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A new telephone installed at
the office of Washington Coun-
ty Sheriff Tieman H. Dippel
indicates the approach of the
annual hurricane season. The
telephone belongs to the Dow
Chemical Company of Freeport,
and is placed in Dippel’s of-
fice about this time each year
in view of possible storms.
Should a storm hit the Gulf
Coast area where the Dow
Chemical holdings are located,
that firm would have a tele-
phone with which to transact
business and make arrange-
ments to place personnel in in-
land towns temporarily in case
they had to be moved out of
the coastal area. The telephone
arrangement has been in effect
since the last big storm in
Texas Gulf waters when Bren-
ham hosted coastal residents
for two or three days until the
hurricane was over.
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Major Leagues
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Crest Is Expected
At La Grange
Today
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ur,
anctim;
tration officials assured angry
congressmen and relatives of GGI
William S. Girard today he will'”
Sons of Hermann meeting. Sos
of Hermann Hall, 8 pm. Refresh-
ments.
June 8:
Washington County Spring
Dairy Day at Fairgrounds Judg-
ing begins at 10 a.m. Barbecue at
noon.
June lit
Girl Scout Leaders Club meeb
or at the County Agent’s office •
through Wednesday.
Stuffleberne said that each
year themonth of June- la pro-
ing general debate from begin-
ning tomorrow. o
Backers predicted the bill will
be passed late next week.
One at the big fights will be
over an amendment guaranteeing
trial'by jury to persons charged
.with contempt under the bill.
Other Congressional develop-
ments;
Rackets- Sen. John L. MeClel-
Ian (D-rfc.) forecast the Senate
make Dave
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t
hce-
CgSasadsas gga.,
with representatives of the var-
ous oil companies held hero
Monday.
The engineering firm has com-
pleted its survey and will make
up its report for the county in its
Houston offices, Tomachefsky
said.
claimed as Dairy Month* when
tribute is paid to the industry
for the job it does in providing
the nation’s population wIth one
of its most beneficial foods.
The county agent said there
are 133 farmers operating Grade
A dairies in Washington County,
and that the annual total income
from them is approximately $2,-
500,000.
The local dairy day helps to
emphasize the importance of
dairying to the overall farming
economy, Stuffleberne reported.
Officers and directors of the
Washington County Dairy Asso-
ciation and members of ‘the.show
committee include: "John Kellogg,
president) Stanley M. Beard, vice-
president; James Lehmann, sec-
retary • treasurer; H. C. Winkel-
mann. Alton Boehnemann, Wal-
ter Keim and Harry Keim. direc-
tors; and Gilbert Keim, John Will
Fuchs, Walter Keim, M. C. Stege-
mueller, Raymond E n g e H n g.
Stanley M. Beard and Irvin Ash-
orn, show committee.
competence.
Wants Permanent Ran
Eisenhower opposed halting
bomb tests pending an ironclad
disarmament agreement banning,
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This group of Houston Boy Scouts will be in charge
of the public court of honor ceremonies which will be held *
Indian style for local Scout Troop 612 at Fireman’s Park
Saturday. The event begins with a family-style picnic at
6:30 p. m. followed by the Indian bonfire ceremony at 8
p. m. Scout troops from Hempstead, Caldwell, Burton as
well as four Washington County troops of Boy Scouts,
Cubs and Girl Scouts have been invited. Seventeen
awards, including one eagle Scout award, will be made.
The above pictured members of Troop 714 of Houston are:
kneeling, left to right, Fred T
en; and standing, left to right, —
bastajn. Bill Sader and Bob Sadler.
In Footsteps
Dave Beck, Jr., following in
the footsteps of his father.
Teamsters union boss Dave
Beck, invoked the Fifth Amend-
ment as he was questioned by
the Senate Labor Rackets Com-
mittee in Washington. (NEA
Telephoto).
Young' Beck
To Be Made
‘Guinea Pig’
, of dairy animals.,A. M. Meekma,
• -ju extension dairy husbandman will
dhs. I .
Weather Observer Mrs. W. G.
Stein. Mrs. Stein said she be-
lieved the rainfall was heavier
downtown than at- her home
where the reading wot taken.
below Columbus-to the Gulf es-
pecially in .the area Garwood to
Eldridge and below Bay City to
Matazorda," the advisory said.
Extent of. the lowland flooding
'is expected to be about the same
as the rise that occurred late in
April. Crest of the rise in the low-
er Colorado passed Smithville
around midnight Tuesday night
with a stage of 22 feet, a flow of
75,000 cubic feet per second.
The. river was expected to crest
at LaGrange, during the day today
and will be near Columbus Thurs-
day morning with a' stage of 26
feet.
A level of around 29 feet can be
expected at Wharton late Friday.
Flood stage at Wharton is 26 feet
but the town of Wharton is not
flooded until a level of 35 feet is
reached.
The Brenham Elementary sum-
mer school opened’ Wednesday
with 15 students enrolledFand at
Brenham High Sehool 30 students
signed up for summer classes be-
ginning Thursday.
Elementary Principal Carlton
Smith, who is instructing the
students, said the elementary stu-
dies include mostly instruction in
arithmetic and language. There
are also classes for social stu-
dies. ' .
The two - month summer
course includes classes five days
a week. Monday through Friday,
from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Smith said 12 of the students
were from this county and three
from Bellville.
High School Principal G. L
Keahey reported enrollment there
will continue Thursday, when
classes begin. The majority of
the 30 students who enrolled
Wednesday are from Washington
Buildings Going Under
Airview shows all major buildings at the Perrin Air
Force Base recreation area near Denison, Tex., under
water. Most of the buildings were expected to go com-
pletely under water as backwaters from nearby Lake Tex-
oma dam cover the area. Floodwaters gushing over the
spillway of the world’s largest man-made dam on the Red
River threaten major flood conditions below the dam.
(NEA Telephoto).
Tuesday. She had not received any House today staged a fight .with-
polio vaccinations. Her com was Ito a Eght over the cavil rights
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get a “completely fair” trial from
Japanese courts.
They rejected demands from
some lawmakers for brogation of
the agreement with Japan under
which Girard was surrendered to
Nipponese justice for killing a
Japanese woman on a U.S. firing
range. ,
Huth State and Defense Depart
ment spokesmen said this and
other “status cf forces” treaties
with foreign nations are essential
if the United States want sto keep
its troops on their soil. "
This view was echoed by some
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Homicide Det. A. C. Howerton, County. , „
Others are from Bellville, Car-
Brenham Banner-Press
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Brenham Weather .
C Most) cloudy and mild with
scattered showers and thunder-
showers h trough tomorrow. Low
tonight 66, high t o m o r row 86.
Readings for 24-hours up to 7 a. .
m. ntoday: Max. 82, Min. 65, 7 a.
m. 70, Sunset 7:20.
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Colorado Flood Warning Issued
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Washington County's annual Spring Dairy Day is sched-
uled for the Washington County Fairgrounds Saturday.
Judging will begin at 10 a. m.
This year’s event is being sponsored by the Washington
County Dairy Association and the Texas A & M College Ex-
tension Service.
Brenham Radio Station KWHI
will follow the Bryan Broncos,
winners of the District 10-AAA
championship, to the State High
Sc h d o 1 Baseball Tournament ,
Thursday.
Tommy Blake, Banner-Press
and KWHI sports editor, will be
on hand at Disch Field in Austin
Thursday at 1:15 for a play-by-
play account of the Bryan-Gar-
land first round game.
The winner of that contest will
advance to the Class 3-A finals
Friday.
Several Bryan business men
and merchants are sponsoring the
broadcast.
Bryan eliminated Brenham from
the District title race and then
went on to defeat La Vega of Wa-
co and Bay City in the Bi-district
and Regional playoffs to advance
to the state tourney.
WASHINGTON (UP)-Sen. John
L. McCellan (D-Ark.) predicted to-
day the Senate will make Dave
Beak Jr. a guinea pig in a con-
tempt of Congress test case for
frivolously and capriciously” in-
voking the Fifth Amendment.
Young Beck invoked the Fifth
Amendment 130 times in 40 minu-
tes Tuesday under questioning by
the Senate Rackets Committee.
Committee Chairman McClellan
said ■ the committee . will act in
about 10 days on a contempt re-
commendation against the 36-year-
old son of the Teamster union
president.
The committee also ordered con-
tempt proceedings against Joseph
McEvoy, a nephew of the elder
Beck by marriage. McEvoy, the
alleged bodyguard of the 6-foot,
200-pound Beck Jr., invoked the
fifth 90 times.
Both men refused to answer
nearly all questions put to them
by the committee, including their
connection with the Teamsters Un-
ion and its payroll.
If the Senate approves the con-
tempt citations, the cases will be
sent to the Justice Department for
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Woodrow Free, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Free of Brenham,
was commissioned a second lieu-
tenant in the United State* Army
Reserve during comm issioning
exercises held at Texas A&M Col-
lege.
Second Lieutenant Free's com-
mission was presented to him by
Brigadier General John A. Berry,
who handed ouT the ^'onimLwioiu: l
to the Army Cadets.
Second Lieutenant Free grad-
uated from Texas A&M with a BS
degree in agricultural education.
He was a member of A Company
Armor Battalion in the Cadet
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They had been sought since
March. 2, 1956, when they disap-
peared from St. Clair Shores,
Mich., where Mrs. Thorpe man-
aged a branch fee office for Sec-
rotary cf Strte James M. Hare.
Arrai;. ed o a federal charge
of transporting embezzled funds
across state lines, they waived re-
moval to Michigan. U.S. Commjs-
sioner Alston Terry set their
House members were em-
broiled in a squabble over the
procedure to use in debating it.
The House Rules Committee
recommended four days of gen-
peral debate before Considering
any at the dozens of amendments
expected to ba proposed. But
southerners opposed the recom-
mendation in their efforts to table
the bill.
Their opposition already gained
Decision of Secretary of De-
fense Wilson and Secretary of
State Dulles with approval of
President Eisenhower to turn
an American soldier over to Ja-
pan for trial is shameful and
disgraceful. It means that a
21 -year-old American boy is tu
be sacrificed on the altar of
diplomatic expediency. This
youth, -presumably amopg -the-
thousands who have been fore-"
ed into the military service by
the draft and through no choice
of their own, was sent Into a
foreign country. While on active
duty he fired a shot which kill-
ed a Japanese woman. The
youth claims the woman was
hit accidentally. The Japanese
have demanded the right to
try him under their own laws.
Our government, in order to
improve relatians with these
recent enemies, has given tn to
their demands. It has abandon- '
rd this boy to the mercies of
a foreign court, depriving him
of his rights as an American
citizen. Wilson and Dulles have
excused their decision as in
compliance with the status of
forces treaty which this-coun-
try has with Japan. It has
similar treaties with other na-
tions. It has long been pointed
out that these treaties deprive
our American youth of their
constitutional rights. The
American Legion and the Vet-
erans, of Foreign Wars have
both denounced such treaties.
We believe it is high time con-
gress should repeal them.
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The mayor and city commis-
sioners have made a decision to
get engineering advice on a
long-range plan to develop the
areas contiguous to the new loop
highway. We believe the areas
along the loop and between it
and the city proper will have
rapid development, which will
require- city utilities. Eventual-
ly those areas will be taken in-
to the city limits, and many fu-
ture headaches can be avoided
by planning orderly construc-
tion of the needed facilities. The
new Sealy mattress factory to
be -built alongside the loop will
be one of the first major im-
provements, but others will
come upon completion of the
loop and providing of utilities.
We believe the loop will give
Brenham a chance to "spread
its wings". The city is wise in
preparing now for future de-
mands.
X BULLETIN
WASHINGTON (UP) — The
Administration’s civil rights
bill cleared it* first hurdle today
when House members agreed
to call it up for debate. The
House okayed a resolution al-
tearing four days of general
argument on the moaaura, with
no limit on amendments that
can h« offered after that.
Brenham building permits for
the first five months of this year
show an increase of $45,514.35
over 1956.
The office of City Secretary
George H. Zeiss issued permits to-
talling $64,720 in May, bringing
the five . month total to $252,-
855.00.
The permits were in the
amount of $207,340.65 for the
same period last year.- "
The month of May of this year
showed an increase of $40,300
over May, 1956. List year the
May permits amounted to $24,420.
Last month’s records show ten
permits for new home* amount-
ing to $59,200 and 11 permits for
repairs and additions totalling
$5,520.
make the oil land* equalization
to Michkgan In custody of a u.s.stumittehetovtuatdontywnithe
Marsho "xlniganthuzhorreesurttd n™r ,Mm tollowingga’nearing
police detectives Harold Ernst of
the Centerline post and Raymond
McConnell of East Lansing were
expected to bring them back.
Regardless of which method is
used, pofice said it would prob-
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By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press White House Writer
WASHINGTON ( UP)—President —=
Eisenhower said today^He favors"
a total ban on testing nuclear
weapons, provided it is linked
firmly to an international agree-
ment backed up by inspection—
prohibiting forever the future use
of such weapons in war.
The President's news confer-
ence remarks on bomb testing
stemmed from the current contro-
versy over the effect* of radio-
activity generated by such tests.
In a many-sided discussion with
reporters of the radiation and
bomb testing controvensy, Eisen-
hower made these other points:
He did not believe this country
ever again would test a hydrogen
bomb the size of the largest wea-
pon exploded in the Pacific March
1, 1954. That blast caused wide-
spread. damaging fallout.
He did not rule out further
tests of smaller hydrogen wea-
pons, pointing out that the H-
bomb is one of the cleanest wea-
pons devised by the government’s
nuclear scientists.
He accepted the findings of the
National Academy of Sciences
that current radiation resulting
from tests is not dangerous. He
said opposition to the test* now
being voiced by numerous other
scientists seems to have a degree
of organization behind it.
He expressed the opinion that
man scientists now disagreeing
with the government on fallout are
not geneticists or physicists and
are, in"fact, out of their field of
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Tulsa Firm Plans
Move To Pampa
PAMPA, Tex. (UP) — Cabot
Companies, a Boston, Mass. firm,
plans to move the Frank Manu-
facturing Co. of Tulsa to Pampa
and combine it with Cabot Shops,
Inc., also an oil well supply firm.
The Frank concern, which has
manufactured portable drilling
rigs, oil well servicing units and
allied machinery for more than 25
years at Tulsa, will bring 100
Washington 100 000
Detroit 000 001
DAIIAS, an — Dallas police
are holding J. T. Yates, 46-year
old house painter, for the slaying
of a bar operator last week.
Yates gave himself up Tuesday
to Capt. Will Fritz and confessed
to the killing. He brought along a
lawyer.
Fritz said Yates confessed to
killing Charles L Hunsaker, 45,
in front of Hunsaker's bar. Police
^ay~ there- wasaclng-standing
feud between the two men.
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