Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 204, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 15, 1957 Page: 6 of 6
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TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 1957
BRENHAM BANNER-PRESS, BRENHAM, TEXAS
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CLOSING COTTOM
Pool expressed belief the segre-
Spots closed nominal at 35 30, up
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Phone Long Distance
BRENHAM HARDWARE
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At least 26 roads were closed ov- slaughter cows. Other classes fair.
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IT'S THE STORY OF YOUR COMMUNITY!
lambs 18-20; medium and. good 65-
80 lb. feeder lambs 18.50-21.50. in-
cluding fleshy shorn feeders at
of Dayton. wind and hail the size
of golf balls levelled a drive-in
theatre screen and destroyed a
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34.15 301.97 34.12
33.20 32.94 33.17
32.18 32.07 33.13
10.20 at Groesbeck. 10 inches at
Tengue, 9 20 at Hearne. 9.50 at
Mar.
May
July
Oct.
MIMEOGRAPHING,
ADDRESSING
with the intention of forming a
Boy Scout Troop sponsored by the
Church when they graduate from
Marlin,
Rosebud
eenfronted her in a supermarket
with a warrant against "C. Barr.”
"I told him I wasn’t C. Barr.”
Brenham Hardware
Company, lac.
Phone GR 6-2282
Bremond.
. 8 30 at
Somerville reported about six In-
ches of rain up to noon Tuesday.
The Explorer phase of the city’s
scout 4 program has been inactive
with the exception of the Explor-
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612. Tooley said.
Rev. O. K Oelke of the Salem
Lutheran Church is forming a new
Washington County Tuesday.
However the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company expected the
— Livestock:
Cattle 1100, calves 500. Active,
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circumstance — before the jury
can find Cox guilty — it must find
other corroborating evidence or
testimony connecting Cox in a ma-
terial manner with the alleged of-
feme.
Because of a thunderstorm that
hit Austin about 7 a.m., only seven
spectators were in the courtroom
when the trial opened.
BUTTERFAT PER POUND
Sour Cream, 45c
Sweet Cream, 50c -e,
RECOGNIZING THE ACHIEVEMENTS
OF PEOPLE YOU KNOW
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COMPANY
Phone GR 6-2282
Is 89.90 inches. The city has al-
ready received 37.72 inches and the
rain is still falling.
Precipitation amounted to .3.75
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$3 court costs.
Police Chief Harold Anderson
promptly ordered an investiga-
tion.
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eluded (reports are for the total
rainfall from Monday morning up
to 9 a.m. Tuesday):
Albert Hafer, Prairie Hill, 5 15;
Wilford Nordt, Salem. 5 inches;
Troughs
Cisterns
Dec. _____ -____ .
Spots closed steady at 33.25.
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but McVey maraged to glide the
plane to a safe landing at a
■. small airport near Hempstead.
CHICAGO PRODUCE
CHICAGO (UP)-Produce:
BRENHAM COTTON
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Low Middling, 28.00
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Our most vivid recollection of
McVey centers about an airpane
Voelkel, Mrs. Sinclair Wells and
managed the airport We char-
tered his small phane to take us
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POULTRT
Large White Eggs, 40c
Medium Candled Eggs, 32c
Small Eggs, 20c
Check Eggs, 13c
Geese, 12c
, Medium Hens. 10c
. Heavy Hens, 12c
Fryers. 20c
Old Roosters, 8c
Guineas, 50c
Ducks, 12c
Turkey Hens. 15c
Turkey Toms, 15c
.Pecans, 20c
GRADE A‘m
6 62 per cwt. of 4%
7c per point over 496
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water.
Leo Schmekriede, 27, t Waco
was killed Monday nizht when his
car hit a culvert and overturned
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TODAY
"The Pride And The Passion"
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
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DR. LOWELL HERZOG
Optometrist .
Office next to
Western Union
Eyes Examined and
Glasses Fitted
, Every Day Monday
through Saturday
Office hours 8 a.m. 5 p.m.
Phone GR 6-2313
PECAN
Trees
Now is the time to fertilize
your Pecan trees. Call us.
Jack Henslee
Phone GR 6-3734 or
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Explorer Scout Post, end will soon
announce the chartering of thill
new group, according to Tooley.
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by the men who made "AarT":
Relessed thru United Artiste
carring on
C. Barr, ordering him into court
for fadling to keep his garbage
can covered She mailed the sum-
about 60 city blocks, forcing 200 Top on hogs 17 60. Horses 5-6 1-2.
to 300 families to evacuate. Water Cattle market opened steady com-
was receding there. pared to last Monday. Good to
Two persons were dead in the choice calves 18-21.50. Medium to
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A few minutes later the victim
of the plot became suspicious and 30
reported the incident to the police.
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number of outbuildings on nearby
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Fed by rains of more trai »ym BBENHAMIVETOCW
Inches, the Colorado River crested 1,175 head of cattie.250or
bans charge" Telephone service was interrupt-
She said neizhbors, not knowing ed in scattered rural sections of
what had happened to her, took -- - -
trouble to be cleared up by 1 a t e
afternoon
E D. Peschel, manager of the
local telephone office, said the
lightning caused the trouble.
Repair work Tuesday centered
on the Old Independence Road
and on the Ballville Highway
around Salem apd Shelby.
Peschel said the Brenham office
had an unusually high number of
long distance calls Monday There
were 926 calls placed during the
day and 810 of them completed.
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Shows 7:00 & 9:00 p. m.
Sherry family.suffered minor In-
juries when thA house was lifted
by the twister, carried 20 feet
and slammed into a pecan tSe.
NEGRO WOMAN-
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out of a local bank, according -to
the story ahe told officers.
When the Eldridge woman re-
turned, one of swindlers went off
to "get change.” Later, when the
first swindler did not return, the
second left to "find” the other.
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High Low Close
3141 34.32 34 39
• 34.53 34 42 34.48
CA.60 34.47 34.56
, 34.18 33.95 34.14
33.23 32 94 32.18
33.19 3286 33.13
Middling, 31.50
Strict Low Middling, 30.00
"next.”'
He said the people of Dallas
gShief APnliceArthurtstermberg 1 closed steady.
Few cutter and utility mixed
9 inches at
High Low lose
34.48 34.40 35.47
34.39 34.29 34.36
34.51 34.43 34 45
all kinds of women."
"I spent a miserable
close U S. 77 north of Cameron
at Elm Creek was under water;
•U.S. 190 between Hearne and Cam-
eron was washed out at the Brazos
River; and State Highway 6 be-
Live poultry: Barely steady
131,000 lbs. USDA price changes
or additions: Caponettes over 41
lbs., 24% to 27, mostly 26; duck-
lings 25.
worst siege of weather since the
spring floods. _ .__ '
Two Drowned
O. R Hand. 19, Lubbock, drown-
ed when a car he was riding in on
the way back to the University of
Texas plunged into a swirling
creek north of Valley Mills.
Arthur Welton Taft. 44. drown-
ed at Lake Kemp near Wichita
Falls when his boat overturned.
Nearly nine Inches of rain1
swamped Palestine as the squall
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TUESDAY
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Wednesday & Thursday
aid Meridian,
good 16-18. Rannies 13-15. Good
butcher cows 12 1-2—15. Canners
Some of the stories those women __
score 59; 92 score 59; 90 score
58'4; 89 score 57%; carlots: 90
score 58%; 89 score 58.
, Eggs: Irregular. 7,200 cases.
White large extras 54; 'mixed
large extras 49; mediums 37%;
standards 38; current receipts 33;
dirties 33; checks 31.
crushed ayainst a pecan tree.
Three Suffer Injuries at Ballinger Monday and flooded hogs. 8 head of horses and mules.
Three members of the Buddy • -...... - —
Five children and two adults slaughter yearling steers and heif-
were rescued fronts stranded era 14-17. Utility cows 13.50-16.
school bus in south Williamson Canner and cutter 12-13.50. Shelly
county and In the same county aI canner down to 10. Few cutter
washout east of Weir caused de- j bulls 14-14.50.
railment of five cars in a freight Calves 800. Active but receipts
ves 18-24 25 Good age « st oc k e r
steers 16-18 1-2. Stocker Cows 11-
15. Good cows and calves 145-175
a pair. Older and lower quality
cows and calves 90-145 a pair.
Heavy weight bulls 14-16. Light
weight bulla 11-14.
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her two young children in for the
night, then located her the next ,
morning and paid her S10 fine and
NORFOLK. Va. (UP>— Mrs.
Lavina Barr doesn't think the ab-! Albert Fricke, Highway 290 Weat, __
seneohetssarbazeacan m “a Gus Korthauer. Long Point, included 1125 inches aP Franklin,
serious enough to land ner..un Jau 4.8: Eckerts Store. Greenvine, 4 7;
“with all kinds of women Raymond Engeling. Pleasant Hill.
Mrs. Barr, whose Navy husband 4.2; Henry Ellermann, Sandy Hill.
95 wooled slaughter lambs 21- proposed a resolution to the sPe-
21.50; utility shorn slaughter i cial session of. the legislature ask-
---- ‘ “ |ing the President to desist and
refrain” from using federal troops
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got to get on one side or the oth- '
er." PSa
by the ladies of the Presbyterian
' Church, and the den mothers are
Mrs. Willie Welas, Mrs. Albert
Voelkel. Mrs Sinclair Wells and
■ Mrs. John C. Hensley. I
Tooley said Rev. John Gaston of |
। the Presbyterian Church had tak-I
en ten Lon Cubs, all about ten
and one-half years of age,- and
placed them in a Webelos Den
nado five miles north at Dayton.
inaHenrxggounty. atn: hnday
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Mrs. Barr said, "and he wrote
Mrs.infrontof,the CBar" inches for the 24 hours up to 7 a.
and put me under arrest and toK 1 m Tuesday. Another 45 of an inch „ , ,
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the defense attorneys for the first
time' in chairs inside the court
nailing and at the far right side
of the chamber
Judge Thurman’s charge for the
most part detailed what the jury
dhn and cannot consider in deter-
mining the defendant’s guilt or in-
nocence.
Closing arguments came imme-
diately after the .charge. Barring
unexpected • developments, the
case should go to the jury early
this afternoon.
Harmon’s Part Cited
The judge took 19 minutes to
read his charge. Then, Assistant
District Attorney Bob Smith led
off arguments for the state, indi-
cating District Attorney Les-
ter would close the prosecution.
In his charge. Judge Thurman
specifically set out that under the
law, Dr. Harmon waa an accom-
during a heavy rain.
Schools at Franklin, Rosebud.
Groesbeck. Mart, West and Bruce-
ville - Eddy were closed Official*
said some were closed because
roads and culverts had washed out
and others because of flu out-
breaks. «
All interests along the Coloradc
River were warned to be prepar-
ed for expected flooding.
Forecasters said a strong inflow
of southerly winds overriding coo}
air pushed to the Gulf of Mexi-
co would bring new, heavy rains
and thunderstorms to East and
Central Texas through Wednes-
day.
The squall line spawned a tor-
curtailed. Slaughter calves about
1 50-75 cents higher. Stocker fully
steady. Few good slaughter
ed swindlers who were strangers to
the Eldridge woman.
Th victim’s husband, Plese Eld-
ridge, works in Baytown.
slaughter calves 20-21.50; choice
very scarce 15-33; standard 17-
19.50; cull and utility 11-16; load gation bills could be passed at the
mixed stocker calves at 25.50 for .current special session — without !
375-lb. steers and 22 f r 295-1b; endangering the (governor’s pro-
heifers and 335-1b. bulls; good ({ram centered around water con-
steer calves 20-23.75. servation and lobbyist control — ■
Hogs 300. Butchers 25-50c high- and minimized the possibility that
er, sows steady. U.S. mixed 1, to a Senate filibuster might block
3 gfade 195-255 1b. barrows and the segregation legislation. •
gilts 18.25-18.50; one shipment .2 ______
and 3 grade 329-lb. butchers 18; rep. CHAPMAN PROPOSES
sows 1 to B grade 270-360 lbs. ANTI-TROOP RESOLUTION ‘ .
slaughter steers and yearlings "are at least 10 to one against
strong to 50c higher; cows strong; integrating schools in Dallas." He
bulls fully steady; calves and said the people expect a special
stickers 50c to SI or more high- session to deal with the questi n,
hours at Palacios early today
Heavy rains also were reported
at Meridian and Cleburne, in Cen-
tral Texas.
Other moderate to heavy rains
were reported at 8:30 from Fort
Worth to Gatesville, and in a
large area bounded by Lancaster,
Mineola, Marlin and Hillsboro.
Rain also was reported on a line
from Mineral Wells to Hamilton
At Waller, about 60 miles west |
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loads slaughter steers and around Pool also questioned the gover:
300 cows. Choice 800-1050 lb nor’sstatements.
Slaughter steers 22-23 Good sters I doh’tkK. whar he agrees
19-2150; utility, standard to... he didn’t
say there wasn't ’
scarce at 14-19; ccmmercial cows । zoing to be any integration in
in small supply at 15-15.50; com- Texas,” P ol said. "I think you've I
-mercial_ bulls 15.75-16; good
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ran out of gasoline in the air, during inclement weather than from their foundations.
during clear weather was
Lines were also reported out be-
tween Somerville and the Bak-
er Brothen plantation on Farm
Road 50.
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•r-MHH mogper sociological coceptsa q
(Continued from Page 1) - ftom interfering with the consti-
‛ . ______ , tutional right of the state 9 Tex- ,
i , . , and1 a measure authorizing the at as to provide, operate and disci
calves 20.50-21.50: Mixed standard torney general to assist any schol pline the public schools
Strict in detending state ,
19 50. Sl and utility 1 50-17.50. gation laws attacked in federal In another proposal, Rep. Joe
Few godI stocker steer calve. 2L court. Pool of Dallas offered a resolu-.
amSdlumaxcronsbron • As I ng as I am governor." ton calling on Eiserhower to bar
and, medium mixed breed and Daniel said, there are not any entry into Texas of Negro serv-
crossbred calves in mixed sex lots federal troops who are going t. icemen with white wives.
from 13-17: ’ '■ occuPy.our, school campuses Pool said •Texas has criminal
Hozs 5. Eased on prices .at local 1 . . . ‘ : laws prohibiting intermarriaze be-
yards and packing plant, butcher He added that as long as I m tween the white and Negro
hogs were up 25 cents. Sows were govern r I do not intend to occu- | races? and_ referred tn "appall-
steady. Top 17.25 paid for 190-240 PY our . campuses with state ing" reports that Negro soldiers
b. U.S 1-3 barrows and gilts: 210- troops: • soldiers and baydhets do ; with whife are being trans-
'60 lbs. 16-17; over 260 lbs 13- ] not mix with the education of our ferred to Texas from West Ger-
15.75. Light 150-185 lbs 13.75-17. 1 young people." ' ___
Sows 300 lbs. down 12.50-15.50. Poo told the delegati n that
Heavier down to 11.50. Dallas, where desegre zation has
-—-—- , been ordered in January, is the
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Phone GR 6-2932
_ ________ 3.85; and Rev. ° K. Oelke. Salem
mommelinonads. ."apprat-tWromgar Nonday £!£■..'end ’
taqis: s--ayeqeneudeaLaGrange,T45;Camper-rinchesatHamiton ey Webelos training.
Last week shet rebived a sdm- "0,7.43; Columbus, 5.16 and schu- Grapeland sits on a high rdge
"5’ "" 15-- . I • . and is in no danger of flooding
but shools were closed indefinite-
ly; ah roads not paved were im-
passable and all crops not .gather-
for the entire year T u e . d a y at I ed were virtually wiped out Busi-
---- - . „ 1"/‛ ness was almost at a standstill
Friday, she sajd, a policeman, .nt, panfa. Flash fvods washed out several
The average 12-month rainfall roads and forced .some schools to
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segregaticn. I
rain.
Another tornado dropped to
earth near Kirbyville, 80 miles
mrtheast of Dayton, and demol-
ished a 6,000 - square foot build-
ing containing seed and pine
burrs.
The flood situation, meantime,
eased in West Texas and most' of
'he estimated 300 persons chased
from their homes by high water
at Bollinger were able to return
today.
Heavy' Rains Push East
But the heavier rains pushed on
into the easter and southern areas
of the state Monday night. By
dawn today Houston reported 4.50
inches, Palacios 4.99, College
Station 4.04, Beaumont 2.87, Gal-
veston 2.06, Victoria 2.14 and Aus-
tin 1.87.
Another heavy thunderstorm hit
Austin early today, dumping .71
of an inch within on hur. Hous-
ton reported two inches Monday
night between 5 and 6 p.m., flood-
ing underpasses and stalling traf-
lie.
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