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BRENHAM; TEXAS, WEDNESD AY, OCT 21, 1959
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Boom! Boom! First Gun Fired
CCURATE ESTIMATING
JUDGES PRESENT
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In Johnson For President Race
REPORTER WITH JOHNSON
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the Lyndon Johnson barbecue. De-
Bonfire Thursday Night-
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Lyndon Johnson to help you?” The" rican Lutheran Church at the an-
Contrasts Khrushchev, Mateos •
Calendar of Events
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BULLETIN
Aid Offered Here
(Continued on Page 4)
WHITMARSHES HAVE BOY
GIRL FOR SCHLOTIMANNS
queen.
where more than 600 persons gath- than who fought for "Baby D’s”
life all night told the father about weighed nine pounds, two ounce.
(Continued on Page 4)
With Top Advisers ••
Ike Discusses Space Troubles
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi-
minutes today with his top mili-
tary and civilian advisers in the
Director Elmer Staats indi
the educational level of his own
the ntion's space programs.
Naval
Defense Secretary Neil H. Mo-
under discussion but the
6-2151.
The two-week courses are free day that
and crew members of the- Nautp
Meets Presidential Boom
Johnson said the damage to the
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Possible Sabotage To US
Atomic Sub Fleet Probed
First speech of "the forthcoming prepared?" Jie asked. -
Russians Ahead in Missiles -
cash
man-
rand*
ries.
Pa.
ery cent he asked for defense, and
last year we gave him a billion
and a quarter more than he asked
if we are not in danger? we are
spending too much; if we are in
and Mrs. Lonnie
ef Brenham are the
lisher was frantic. Finally, some
one told him: "Why don't you ask
boards his plane at the Brenham airport following his
appearance Tuesday night at the barbecue in his honor
at the National Guard Armory. Johnson’s plane was one
of two which brought dignitaries .to the barbecue. The
Classes in both standard and ad-
vanced first aid will be sponsored
cult Court of Appeals at Phil-
adelphia at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
people who are now 80 per cent
illiterate Johnson reported Mateos
wants to increase the exchange of
The Senator Waves Good-bye
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson waves good-bye as he
feed 600 persons. The Lions club
paid for 570 plates. The 29 VFW
members who served the meal
were fed. That left one-half chick-
en over.
publisher replied: “I can't do that
I have fought him in the elections
all these years? And besides, we
are not in his district." But the
was elected president of the Area
Lutheran Brotherhoods of the Ame-
oi a girl born at the St. Jude
pital Wednesday at 4:20 a. m.
ard, disclosed Tues-
nation's first nuclear
-y.
it.
the enrollees be at least 18 years
of age. Both men and women are
twin - reactor Tritow, to scheduled
to be commissioned Nov 10.
PITTSBURGH (UPI) - A fed-
eral judge today invoked the
Taft . Hartley Act ia the steel
strike but the injunction was
for
you.
Dr. Johnson
New Head Of
build up spirit and boost the
Cubs to victory," they said.
Four class candidates are vieing
for the title of homecoming queen
They and their classmates are col-
lecting funds for senior class ac-
tivities. and the candidate turning
in the most money will be the
-
to speeding up space explorati
The meeting with military a
civilian aides was arranged afl
the U.S. pace-missile progr
came under new fire from M
on his presidential aspirations. “I
don’t think you will have to sk
him any more,” she replied. "Any
man would be foolish to turn it
down.”
wants what you’ve got and he to
going to get* it, if you don’t watch
out."
However, he said he did not think
Khrushchev a visit did any dam-
age. “I don’t think he converted a
single American. They were amus-
M." ——- -
President Mateos, on the other
hand, he said, came not to preach
hate but love, not to bury us, as
Khrushchev threatened The Mexi-
can president, who was Johnson's
guest at his ranch over the week-
end, was concerned not with colon-
Her identity will remain secret
until halftime when the queen will
(Continued on Page 4)
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Courses In First
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The annual Brenham High Schoo Homecoming festi-
vities will be kicked off with a bonfire and pep rally
Thursday night.
The events mark the opening of two days of activities,
highlighted by the. District 10-AAA football opener at
Cub Stadium Friday night between Brenham and Hunts-
rille. The homecoming queen will be crowned during half-
-----------------------:------time ceremonies.
7 p. m. Music will be furnished by
the Brenham High School Band and
there will be speeches by the Bren-
ham coaches and football players.
Sally Malitz and Dolly Luetge,
senior cheerleaders. Wednesday is-
sued an invitation for everyone to
join. In the rally.------
"We want to make this a really
sustained "apparently intentional”
damage
Johnson said he did not know of
nual meeting held at the Emman-
uel Lutheran Church in Green-
vine Tuesday night.
He will succeed Floyd Sommer,
spite the fact that they were alert-
ed that the senator'S remarks
would be significant, none of them
sent staff men to cover the affair,
except the Dallas Times-Herald and
the Houston Chronicle. The Dallas
paper sent its staff writer, Miss
The first gun in a boom to elect Lyndon B. Johnson
president of the United States was fired here Tuesday
night
The majority leader of the U. S. Senate came back to
Brenham where 22 years ago he launched his first and
successful campaign for political office to make what ap-
went quickly to his wife's room.
(Continued on page 8)
PECTATOR
~BULLETIN
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) - Pres-
ideal Eisenhower today ordered
the transfer of the Army’s space
team headed by Wernher Von
Bream to the ivilian National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration to "best serve the nation-
Capt Carl A. Johnspn. acting
K miles, be declared: “I think we
M ought to be doing more in the
h. scientific field, more in space.”
m ’ He complained that "while we
E are crowning Miss America, they
E are burning the midnight oil, that
H the Russians put a' sputnik into
E orbit, and while we were investi-
E gating it, they put two more into
M the air.” Johnson warned that “we
E cannot lead the world by sitting
I Clear to partly cloudy and mild
through Thursday Low tonight 56,
high tomorrow M. Readings for
, 24 hour* up to 7 a. m. today: Max.
SI. Min. 51. 7 am. 54. Sunset 5:45.
Mother Weeps
The father, a first lieutenant.
Associate press secretary Anne:
Wheaton said any statement oh
the meeting .would be issued at
Augusta, Ga., where the Pres-
dent flew today for a five-day w
Press Secretary James C- Hag.
erty said today “procedures and
mechaNce” involved in the trans-
let would be undertaken inuue
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, center,’
is shown copies of the Tuesday’s
Banner-Press which welcomed him to
Brenham and hailed him as “the next
president of the United States." Show-
North Pole icecap. involved the
cutting of a numberrof electrical
cables but did not extend to the
vessel’s nuclear reactor
FBI agent Leo L. Laughlin, in
charge of the Boston office, said
lets—। one pound, 11 ounce" girl
that could fit comfortably in an
t to
risits
flow-
onsi-
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PROBABLY K NEW record for
close estimating was done by the
Lions Club and the VFWhJast
ame
at
|. MISS MAYER’S presence re-
minded us of a story Lyndon John-
All San Antonio
Quintuplets Die
Mr.
man
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The City of
Hospitality and
Industry.
NO. 209
dawn that the last of the babies
naaak kemis - o--peN
al laws ware broke
Sabotage of government proper-
ty to a violation of federl law.
An undisclosed number of the
campaign. because of sentimental I
reasons. He got his start in na- I
tional politics as a member of con- I
gress from the Brenham district I
for 12 years. He explained- it by J
telling a story about his own father
who wanted to leave his sickbed
at the hospital to go back home •
among his friends “where they ,
know when you are sick and care a
when you die." , I
The Issue In 1960
He said the great issue in 1960 I
will be he preservation of our form I
of government. "I don't think we I
shall have to die for liberty, as our I
forefathers did, but we shall have I
to do some heavy thinking. Are I
we going to be alert and awake |
। enough to be sure we are always
Other activities" include a pep
rally at Cub Gymnasium Friday at
9:45 a. m., a downtown pep rally
at 3 p. m., and an open house for
sll ex-students at Cub Gymnasium
222.42
bors,
.1 at
pital.
th.
White House meeting that it dealt
with “the handling of our space
programs."
"Anything that's going to come
oat.” he said, "is going to come
iw Iha PmidMt *— j
ident; Nelson Kieke, of Shelby, sec-
retary; Walter Grabarschick of
Rehburg, treasurer; and Melvin
.
Tuesday'tn“ meet The presidenttat
boom face to face.
He was shown copies of the
Banner- Press with the headline:
“Welcome to Brenham Sen. Lyn-
don Johnson. The Next President
of the United States."
The senator beamed and was
obviously well pleased.
He attended a cocktail party giv-
en at the VFW home by Democra-
tic Committeeman Hub Baker and
his brother, Eddie Baker, and their
wives, and then stepped- across to
the Texas National Guard Armory
J
Obviously moved after speaker
after speaker at an appreciation
barbecue sponsored by the Lions
Club eulogized him and called him
"the next president of the United
Stales," Johnson cast aside his
The Senator Lynden Johnson
speech and some of the prelimi-
naries will, be broadcast over
Radio Station KWHI, 1280 on the
dial, at 5 o’clock thia afternoon.
prepared speech and plunged into
a discussion of' “the issues in
1960."
This was his first public address
since his longtime friend and polit-
Barbecue Time
A big smile lights the face of
Senator Lyndon B Johnson as
adult’s hand—died today after an
18 hour and nine minute fight for
survival.
The quntuplets were all girls
and none lived long enough to be
named'—The—ene—that—lved—the
longest was "Baby D.” so called
because she was the fourth to be
PORTSMOUTH," N.H. (UPI)-
The FBI and naval intelligence
officers today investigated the
possibility of sabotage aimed at
this country’s nuclear submarine
fleet.
added that it was a "qualified’’
answer
Shipyard ‘officials refused to
comment on reports of fires,
broken pipes and other incidents
at the yard.
In Groton, Conn., extreme se-
curity precautions were in force
at the Atlantic submarine .base
and the nearby Electric Boat
Skelton of Temple, national Demo-
cratic committeeman for Texas. Skel-
ton, along with Speaker of the House
Sam Rayburn, launched a Johnson-
for-President drive in Dallas last
weekend. "I like that headline,"-. John-
son said after viewing the paper.
(Staff Photo).
K son told us some years ago when
ft he was still congressman from this
district. It illustrates how he has
t always helped any Texan, whether
he lived in his district or not.
and whether he was a supporter of
his or not. It seems that during
B his plane. Our reporter asked her
M if she had any inside information
ical mentor, Speaker of the House
Sam Rayburn, urged over the
weekend that a Lyndon Johnson for
President club be organized in
every county in Texas.
Club Presents Charter
Articles of association of the
Washington County Johnson for
President Club, one of the first to
be organized after Rayburn’s call,
was presented the senator.
Democratic. National Committee-
man Byron Skelton of Temple pre-
sented him to the crowd as "the
next president of the United
States."
dent Eisenhower conferred for 70 cation. ,
The presence of Acting
" Johnson modestly asserted “I
know I am not worthy -of all the
nice things said here tonight," but
nowhere in his speech did he say
one word to discourage his friends
from pushing his apparent candi-
dacy. .
As a matter of fact, he conclud-
ed his speech with this assertion:
“Yea can just bet your bottom
dollar that as long as God spares
me, I am going to try to make
this country better than It was
when I was born, and It was a
mighty good place to be In then.”
The majority leader obviously
picked Brenham out of the more
than 1,000 Texas communities
clamoring to honor him, for this
Rr Ro, C,ncc Pohlmeyer of Brenham, reporter,
uy - -IV-- They will take office in January
Asked if the President’s action
"takes the Army out of the space
Held.” Hagerty said “Yes.”
enough persons-take interest.,.
Mn J. T. E.mDrey, local repre-
sentative of the Red Cross, said the
organization is attempting to get
more qualified first aid instructors
in the county.
The courses are both pre-requi-
sites to an instructor's rating. Pres-
enly there is only one qualified in-
structor in Brenham — Cy Rod
gers. end coach at Brenham High
School.
An instructor will be sent to
Brenham to, teach the courses if
• they are requested, Mrs. Embrey
said.
"With the large population of
Washington County, we should
have several persons qualified to
give first aid." Mrs. Embrey said.
Persons interested in taking the
courses are asked to call Mrs.
peared .to be as nearly as possible at this time a declara-.
tion of his candidacy.
Ms men were called into the in- .2 —---
vestigation to determine if feder- izing other people, but with raising
" Fha —_-A. - a 1 Taial A* hie AxIM
Kolkhorst of Sandy Hill, vice-pres- big homecoming, and we hope the
... - _ public will come out and help us
Embrey at Greenfield 6-3591 er the
Red Cross Office at Greenfield commander of the
/
HAD IT BEEN necessary, a ma-
4, jority of the Supreme Court of Tex-
| as could have been called into ses-
fl sion in Brenham last night. Four
I members of the high court were
I here' to attend the Lyndon John-
son barbecue, and they sat togeth-
| er in what was jokingly called the
I "Supreme Court bench.” They
were Justices R. W. Hamilton,
i James R. Norvell, Robert W. Cal-
I vett and Joe Greenhill. Sitting be-
’ side them was Presiding Judge
Wm. A. Morrison of the Court of
| Criminal Appeals. Attorney Gen-
. eral Will Wilson, just back from
Washington, D. C., wher he de-
fended the tidelands case was also
• present. R. S. CM) vert. state comp-
I troller, attended the dinner, along
I with Mrs. Calvert. ,
students between the United States
9.800 workmen at the shipyard and Mexico
• • • ing him the paper is Brenham Mayor
THE METROPOLITAN press in Reese B. Lockett, left, and Byron
general slipped up on coverage of
Fe +L. I emHAn Tehnenn harhapiia Da, "n"4*" ? _________________:__
eligible and class hours will be ___, _________ -______ _____-___,
ranged for tbs coavaafoacs of the any other ships or submarines Nautilus the first submarie , in lus already has bean questioned.
wake of a new open wrangle over that not only clarification of
.0 . 1 . tary and civilian spare roles
, . - est. with the principal to be paid
! ident Eisenhower "practically ev- do more te insure a pile of lumber
* ■ " —than we are willing to do for our
he —gees- -through-the- barbecue- Muchrof Johnson’sspeechwasde-
line at the National Guard Arm- voted to contrasting the visits of
ory Tuesday night. (Staff Photo). Russia’s Premier Khrushchev and
of Route 4, Brenham, are the par-
enta of a boy born at the Milroy
Hospital Wednesday at 7:38 a. m.
He weighed eight pounds
Mexico's President Lopez Mateos
to the United States. He told of
being introduced to Khrushchev by
President Eisenhower, and Khrush-
chev’s remark “I have read his
(Johnson's) speeches and I don't
like them.”
The senator characterized Khru-
shchev as a great politician, a very
able man who would be in the top
40 per eent of eny- parlamentary
body in the world. "He is adroit,
skillful, and deceptive, and deter-
mined to colonize the world,"
Johnson declared. “I think he
SENATOR LYNDON JOHNSON
was so pleased with the table dec-
orations at the Lions Club barbe-
cue in his honor last night, that
he took a centerpiece from the
head table home to his wife, the
beloved Ladybird Johnson. The
twin centerpieces, provided as a
compliment to the senator by the
Weghorst Floral Co , had a patri-
otic motif. They featured minia-
ture Texas and American flags, in
addition to the flowers. The head
table itself had a skirt at red.
white and blue, and the senator
spoke before a background of a
huge rubber plant, flanked on eith-
er side by an American flag and
mau w, so. BHS Sia tes
Homecom ing
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. ' World War II the Dallas Times-
■ . Herald ran short of newsprint. It
• - n appeled deepexaegea"a 22
time but got no results. The pub-
Q 1 1 1 between 8:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
2 DrothcrhOOC. Thursday's bonfire will be held
. $ — ■ - e' mant lol just sopedp
Dr. Joel Johnson of Brenham Washington County Fairgrbuncs"at
(Continued on Page 4) whose- one-year term -expires,-------
Other new officers include Earl
ijority leader stepped off
- ii‘" i t -ntitx _
—held up to allow the union to
argue an appeal nthe Fhird-€ir-
Pointing out that the Russians
are ahead of the United States in
intercontinental missiles which
they can fire a distance of 6500
miles with an accuracy of five
October 22:
Presbyterian Women of The
Church will meet at 7:30 p. m, at
the church. ______________ hg2.
Rainbow meeting, 4p.m. Me
sonic Temple. 1
Associational Brotherhood meeb-
ing at the First Baptist Churchin
Lexington at 7 p.m.
The shift of the Ng Army bal-
listic missile agency will be sub-
mitted to Congress aa a reorgan-
ization plan in January. But
Elroy told reporters after the of money that could be
Yard where the world’s biggest
and the only requirement is that powered sub the Nautilus, had atomic-powered submarine, the
born.
Their pretty _ ) blonde mother,
Mrs. Charles G. Hannan, 27, and
her husband, a 29-year-old Air
Force navigator, were grief
stricken.
They said it was "God's will”
and asked to be allowed to retire
from the turmoil into which be-
coming the parents of quintuplets
had thrust them._________________
Capt. W D. Munroe, a pedia-
ih-
ol-
nd -
el-
children?” he asked.
danger we are not spending second plane carried J. Ed Connally of Abilene, state
enough.” democratic chairman, and his party. (Staff Photo).
Education For All .i *
Johnson urged that every high
school graduate who wants to go
to college and is willing to apply
himself, should have the opportun-
ity. He advocated federally guar-
anteed loans similar to housing
loans, under which a student would
be able to borrow $1,000 each year
for four years at 3 per cent infer-
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