Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 211, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1959 Page: 1 of 6
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BRErW^M
Brenham Weather
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VOLUME 94
Hughes ran to a brick home
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ammunition him down
1X53 Edsel automobile.
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Won't Be Afraid
GINNING NEARLY OVER
ABSENTEE BALLOTS READY
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said the object of the new oi
in a gesture sure to
dpaw the especial ire of Castro
were served without additional cost
tor did not turn over and Witt was
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not thrown off.
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Woman Is Fined
ation of $325,000
in Brenham District --
I am happy to
The Burton Independent School
$90,640;
announced
Washington
Calendar of Events
be taken."
The Columbia Broadcasting Sys yith a chili and stew supper and
October 26:
Pilot Club dinner meeting, Green
Will Giddings, chairman.
Special meeting Eastern Star,
BOY FOR WIESEPAPES
He weighed
Friday at 7:37 a
m
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am
gPa
JOHNSON FOR
PRESIDENT HAS
GOP WORRIED
For Carrying Pistol
Mrs. Ruby Reemer, about 35, of
other car involved in the wreck, Her-
bert Heidemann, can be seen at the’left
looking over the wreckage of the Buck
car. Heidemann, who was meeting the.
Burton Halloween
Carnival Tuesday
LONDON (UPI) — A British
medical health officer said in an
article published todsy in the au-
thoritative medical journal Lancet
that the rise in leukemia cases
in certain English counties may
supporters, said the name f: the
underground is "the 26th of July
Anti-Communist Movemfient."
Brenham. pleaded guilty to carry-
ing a pistol and was fined $100 and
costs in the Washington County
court of Judge Odis Tomachefsky.
The office of Sheriff Tieman
Dippel said they had information
that Mrs Roemer was carrying the
pistol in a public place last Satur-
day and was arrested
showing around nude photographs
he and Mrs. Eidinoff took of each
other on their honeymoon in 1937
He also accused Andress of alter-
ing one picture.
a small central Texas town. Mrs.
Hannan, the former Cecilia Thon-
ig, was unable ■ to leave her hos- -
pital bed at Lackland Air Force
Base to come to the funeral.
Mrs. Hannan said she was glad
the quints were born and said it
was God's will that none of them
lived more than 18 hours.
"I understand God’s will not his
a
and
games and concessions
The event will be held al the Bur-
ion High School
2 Girls Escape
Serious Injury
As Auto Flips
Partly cloudy with little change in
temperatures through Saturday
Low tonight 60 high tomorrow 82.
Readings for 24-hours up to 7 a.
m today: Max. 84, Min 55, 7 a. m.
Woman Says Prank
Led To Ticket For
Auto On Sidewalk
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near Branford Place to attend the
late show at the Adams Theater,"
Miu Halloran said in an angry let-
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FEDERAL (RACKDOWN
ON TV QUIZ SHOWS DUE
NEW YORK (UPI) - Fears of
s federal crackdown on TV quiz
shows spurred major networks to-
day tn police their programming
practices.
Kenney Stew Set
The Kenney-New Wehdem School
will have its annual chicken stew
Tuesday Serving will begin at 5:30
-pm-----:,-----------
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Car Somersaults After Hitting Tractor
ind u.. • • ।----- Erich Witt was not hurt. Driver ofan-
bombs: ' , ..
Pedro Diaz Lanz, who quit Cas-
Member of United Press International, The Greatest IVorld-lVide News Service
-------------- JBBENHAM, TEXAS, FRIDAY. OCT. 23, 1959 '
New Slogan is
“Put The Nix On
Nixon”
tro because he said Communists
were taking over the revolution,
According to a report of the Mu- ai Bank, $125,410; Brenham Cotton have brought five daughters into
nicipal Advisory Council of Texas', Oil and Manufacturing Co., $96,860; the world."
Rev. Fox Mid that Edward Boett-
cher, Jr. is the general chairman
in charge of a campaign this year
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ed the tractor off the highway and
down an embankment, but the trac-
m-
- 2' A.
his. bitterest attack yet against'
the United States. The broadcast
entil'd at 3 a.m, .
, "On Monday," he said, "we will
concentrate one million people in
front of the presidential palace to
protest the air attacks over our .
national trritory."
Two persons were killed and 47
injured when- Cuban warplanes
and anti aircraft guns opened up
on planes dropping anti - Castro
and considered" extremely danger i
qus They would not hesitate to
October 27:
Meeting of Quarter Horse Asso-
valuation of $281,000— tops for the
district.
Frank W Allenson, superintend-
ent of the Brenham schools, used
a portion of the report as the basis,
for his talk on the school system
tq members of the Rotary Club this
week.
The report lists the hi ne other
principal taxpayer* to the district
and includes (assessed valuation):
Wasington County State Bank.
$218,420: Southwestern Bell Tele-
No Steel Decision
PHILADELPHIA (UPI)— Short-
ages of steel dug more deeply
into i he nation's economy today
with no immediate end of the
101-day steel strike in sight.
The third U. S. Circuit Court
of Appeals said it would not reach
.a decision on whether a Taft-
Hartley law injunction to end the
walkout of 500,000 steelworkers
was necessary and constitutional
until early next week.
dropped quiz shows and give-
away programs
Two Producers Resign
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Buck car, said he thought it was going
• to flip right on top of his However, it
only grazed the rear left side of Heide-
mann’s car as it fell to the pavement.
(Staff Photo).,
above their regular meals, since
this counted as a regular meeting
of the club.' The profit will be
used on some of the many civic
projects in which the club is en-
. gaged.
• • #
MRS. JOE A. OSBORNE, the
former Miss Ruth Fischer, has
sent her parents, Mr and Mrs. H.
L Zschappel some clippings from
— BARBECUE SHOWS PROFIT
• • •
LONG DROUTH BROKEN
1 wo Brenham High School girls
.from Old Washington miraculously
escaped serious injury F r i d a y.
morning when their car strtick a
farm tractor and somersaulted on-
The First National Bank of । phone Company, $212,180; Brenham
Brenham is the chief tax payer to) Wholesale Grocery Co., Inc., $177,-
the Brenham Independent' School 249; Texas and New Orleans.Rail-
District. 1 way Co., $141,840; Farmers Nat ion-
T h c
$
> -
Hospitality and
Industry.
NO. in
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escaped unhurt as did the occu-
pants of, another car which was
struck a glancing blow by the
girls' auto as it flew through the
air.
, The accident occurred at 7:30 a.
m during a light fog when a car
driven by- Joyce Buck, 17, hit the
rear left wheel of a tractor being
operated by , Erich Witt, 55, of
Route 2. Witt had turned off of FM
Britain newspapers announcing the church buildings have a total valu-
a end of an 18-weeks’ drouth. It was ti e 6225 ne
called the driest summer in 200
shoot an officer." ,
They held Mr and Mrs. Ora.22-caliber rifle and ammunition the
Ralston and their children, Seth. ”--•— •—ee " •--l-
Miss Buck’* car stood on its front
end and then flipped over on its
top, causing extensive damage The
tractor suffered damage only to
its left tire.
A third vehicle, a car driven by
Herbert Heidemann of Route 2.
Brenham, was slightly damaged
when the Buck car somersault
ed and hit the lent rear side of
Heidemann's car. Heidemann was
travelling toward Oki Washington
and was meeting the other two ve-
hicles.
Riding with Miss Buck was San-
dra Borgstedte, 14. the daughter of
Brenham Friday morning. The girls .
Joyce Buck, 17, and Sandra Borg-
stedte, 14, escaped without serious in-
- jury “and the driver of the tractor, <
High School girls stood on its- nose
and then crashed down on its top after
hitting the rear of a farm tractor on
Highway 90 two miles north-east of
Two Convicts Terrorize Family
AMARILLO, Teg (UPI)— The Hughes ran to a brick homejand considered extremely danger । i ‘
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it appear the leaflet airplanes
caused the deaths by . dropping
NEW YORK (UPI)—Dist. Atty
Frank Hogan Mid today that
Charles Van Doren has admitted
he gave an incorrect answer to
the district attorney’s office when
questioned as to whether he had
received questions or answers
while winning $129,000 on the tel-
evision quiz show "Twenty-One ”
Hogan refused to say whether
Van Doren admitted receiving
, any questions or answers in ad-
vance of his appearance on the
TV show
Asked if Van Doren, in appear-
ing at the district attorney'* of-
fice. had given incorrect answer*
to the Mme question* asked by
a grand jury., Hogan Mid
I “You will have to conclude that
they were in’ the same area."
I Van Doren previously had told
the grand jary that he did not
in Quiz Show Probe--
DA Says Van Doren Lied
Baptists Okeh .
SPECTATOR Biggest Budget
5. and Lillian Sue, 4. captive in
their home seven miles west of
Spearman and then escaped with
Ralston’s car ami two guns
They stole one gun—a .38-cali-
her revolver—from a jailer's desk
at the' Hale county jail Wednes-
day when they overpowered two
.PRESIDENT WM. H. BUSKE
of the Brenham Lions Club announ-
ced today that the club paid all ex-
penses and cakne out with a profit
TAYLOR. Tex (UPI) —. The
quntuplet daughters of Lt. and
Mrs. Charles G. Hannan will be '
buried In separate graves today
following a '"white" funeral serv-
ice in St. Mary's Roman Catho-
way,” she said.
Near Independence -
Negro Burns To
.Death in Home
» Ralston worked his hands free Ralston said the men told him
forced Mrs. Ralsabott an houn later He walked h
years in both the British isles and
the Continent. Weather observers
were handicapped in their efforts
to determine' how many records
were broken "That will be some
job," one of them reported. "We’ve
almost forgotten how to record
rainfall.” One of the newspapers
totalled up the debits and credits
of "this glorious weather" when
"day after week after month” had
blue skies and bright sun ice
cream-sales and bathing suits had
record sales, while umbrella sales
dropped 50 per cent and so many
boys got broken bone* on the rock
hard playing fields of Eton that
football was banned until the rains
came”
A 50-year-old negro-man burned to death Friday about
10 a. m. when fire destroyed the home in which he re-
sided about one-mile south of the Sun Oil Field near In-
dependence.
The victim was Johnnie Heard, whose body was found
by Washington County Sheriff’s Department deputies in
. the debris in the kitchen.
dioactive fallout
Dr. Alun Phillips, medical
health officer in Caernarvon
County, said that deaths from
leukemia have risen 50 per cent
in two successive four yesr peri-
ods. He added that if strontium
90 is responsible, leukemia deaths
will rise in five other countries,
but he gave no specific figures
“n %v
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mutgun announced immedi 3g it annual Halloween carnival
ately that "appropriate action will next Tim sday
The festival opens at 5 mi p. m.
Mr and Mrs William Borgstedte L
of Old Wasfirngtotr—Miss Bunk -w- ™
Homecoming Bonfire Blazes
Members of the Brenham High School Band pause
in the music-making to take a look at the huge bonfire
which was lighted Thursday night at the Washington
County Fairgrounds. The bonfire and pep rally were a
part of the homecoming actvities at BHS which will be.
highlighted by the Cub-Huntsville game tonight. The
four homecoming queen candidates ignited the bon-
fire which was viewed by several hundred students and
I, others. The queen will be announced during halftime
activities at tonight’s game. A reception for ex-students
is scheduled at Cub Gymnasium at 6:30 p. m. (Staff
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Brenham Banner-Press
CASTRO SAYS
U. S USED AS
BOMBER’BASE
...
The tax rate is $1 50, which includ- Valley Restaurant, 6:45 p. m. Mrs.
es 50 cent* for debt service, ac- Will Giddings, chairman.
from Ralston,
rhe bandiys
tomatic rifle
Potter county sheriffs office re-
' ported today that two convicted
prisoners who escaped from the
I Hale county jail and terrorized a
I ranch family tor eight hour*
Thursday have been captured.
The escapers. both convictd
robbers, were Jackie Tarlton, 25
of Tulia. Tex., and Joe Owen
Hughes. 24. of Plainview. Pur-
suers spotted tax I ton la a pasture
and caught him
___-__________ Mr and Mr*. Edsel Wiesepape
John A. Aaron and Jesse Zous- of Brenham are the parents of a
Promises To Turn
Cuba Into Big
Armed Camp
NEWARK, N.J. (UPI)—An at-
tractive brunette berated the
Newark police for ticketing her
tiny sports car just because half
of it was parked on the sidewalk
Miss Barbara M Hallorap in
listed she didn’t put it there and
accused the police of negligence
300-400 yards from the pasture
and entered it. The home was j
owned by Lawson Stephens, who
work* for the First National Bank
of Amarillo.
Men Heavily Armed
Police surrounded the house ac
cording to the Potter county sher-
iff’• office, and seized Hughes 1
A bulletin issued by the Texas
Highway Patrol today, said the
men were "very heavily armed!
wmim
on the left side of Halsey St - . “Paw the espeet
Matagmeedhno,*
Conversion Cooperative Program, —H
ai SF ckeas, and rcihdsBapeisyboisar'home With Radioactivity
were served without additional cost and abroad and the Baptist Or- —
receive either questions or an-
swers in advance.
“I think he gave truthful an
swers today," Hogan Mid. refer-
ring to a 75-minute conference
with the 33-year-old Columbia
University instructor.
Van Doren, who Mid he met
with Hogan of his own volition,
told reporters on leaving the dis-
trict attorney's office:
'Tm sorry: I can't comment.
I'm in a hurry. I have a class."
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Rail-
way Co., $89,445; agd l Hausman
Wholesale Grocery Co $67,051. 1
The total assessed valuation of
the district in 1958 was $9,651,705.
tern, first of the major networks
to voluntarily police its program
ming practices. already ' has
be caused by the increase in ra
jailers, a porter and a trusty and ton to cook their lunch, then sat to a neighbor's house two miles
locked all four in cells down at a table* to map out a away this morning, where he tele-
.Later Wednesday,. they stole a I route to Oklahoma City, holding phoned Hansford county sheriff
I -- — —2 ....... Ralstons at gunpoint all the J B. Cooke to report the incident
from Ben Rentfro. 65 who farms while Five-State Alarm
111 miles east of Tulia, lex „ TarL! When they got ready to leave. The Ralstons had no phone, and
i ton a home town \ they tied Mrs Ralston in a chair Tarlton and Hughe* rendered all
Foreed lo look lunch on the first floor and took Rajs the motor vehicles on the ranch
"Thursday, they took a 32-caliber ton upstairs, where they spread useless befre they fled about
automatic pistol a 23 caliber au eaglet! him on- a bed and tied 9 30 pm Thursday in Ralston’s
that publicity surrounding the
births Tuesday come to an end.
He told reporters that he plans
to take a 30-day leave "‘to try
to collect eyerything together
- again.11 ---------————
Both the officer and hisawife
are from farm families, in Taylor,
Report Lists Top
School Taxpayers
phan's Homes.
Contributions for the year to this
program from the local church
are estimated at $5,719.37.
Employee ealaries are expected
to amount to $6,750, and debt re-
tirement for the church year is
$5,183.
The present indebtedness on the
church building constructed five
years ago amounts to $9,000 The
In History Here
~ ■ i—
The First Baptist Church of Bren-
ham has adopted its largest bud-
get in history.
Rev. Walter M Fox, the pastor.
Mid the budget of $43.640 65 for
this coming year represents an in-
crease of fivs. per cent over last
year's budget of $41,927 46
The weekly expense* at the
church average $839.25.
“EMPLE (UP!)— The Lyndon ।
Johnson for President drive has 1
Texas Republicans worried be-
cause he’s the only man who can
"put the nix on Nixon,” National 1
Democratic Committeeman By- '
ron Skelton Mid Thursday. ,
Skelton, a Temple attorney, said
the state GOP leaders are "dis- '
turbed" and Mid this is a natural
reaction because Johnson "is the
last man they would like to see
nominated by the Democrats. ‘
"They know they can’t beat.
Lyndon Johnson, and he is the
one msn who can put the nix on
Nixon,” Skelton said.
National Republican Committee-
man Jack Porter, U S. Rep. Bruce
Alger and State GOP Chairman
Thad Hutcheson charged Tuesday
• that Johnson was backed by the
■ Americans for Democratic Action
Skelton said the Republicans are
, “frustrated” and are trying to
■ discredit Johnson despite the fact
- that "he has always followed a
I middle of the road policy and the
program of the Democratic party
! which is the best for all the peo-
ple."
Officers said Heard'had been al-
most totally paralyzed since suf-,
fering a strtie about ten years
ago *
The fire, of unknown origin,
was discovered by the members
of the Arthur Heard family who
were working in the fields. They
rushed back to the house and when
they could not find Johnnie, they
notified officers.
The deputies Mid neighbors
heard screams and found the house
completely enveloped in flmes.
The house was on the Julius
Drewa farm -Deputies said the
Heard family lost all of its belong-
ings,
it was the second fire death lor
Washington County this year. Bar-
ry Sayles died when fire destroy-
ed his residence near Gay Hill last
spring.
Dan Alsobrook, mail carrier on
Route 5, was one of the first per-
sons to see the fire.. ,
He said in his opinion thefire
started" Th' the klfchen. By. the time
Alsobrook -got the f f o nt gate
to.the place open, the whoje house
was ablaze he said.
to its top in the middle of High-
way 90.
I he -driver wf-the tractor-also
"Our enemies are trying to di-
.yide our, people on the basis of____*
fear/* Castro said. "Fear is the
great divider. Our formula for
dav and fled protection is not to be afraid."
Fhe giri, ""Sharon told Castro said Cuba ,had been
a hair-raising tale of being drag bombed three times, within, the
ged from the home of Mr and! past 10 dayshy USbased planes
4Mrs. Cicil A. Hallowell of Dam-and compared the leaflet, attack
ariscotta Mills, Maim late Satur ’ << *)
day She said Austin never gave . A _ * . . .
her-food. • ' Quints Are Buried
MOMfPFfiaFserFM—--3; -
LUBBOCK (UP - Testimony Rites At Taylor
in the murder trail of an El Pasol . . * • o
the daughter of Mr and Mrs Char-
lie Buck, also of Old Washington.
Both girls were taken to the Bren-
ham Clinic by a Brenham Memo-
rial Funeral Home Ambulance It
was determined at the clinic that
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the bank had an assessed 1958 Brenham Cotton Mill. Inc
2cunee3‛eehebrmmmr323
night i had 122 special
guests from over the state. A total
News In Brief
'_____________’ ■ Others were
a -0mdamogp,.2, ' " I njured^ when -ast care-;, sped
FormUnderground | Girl Kidnaped through the streets of Havana and
MIAMI (UPI) - The lormer LYNDONVILLE vt (PI-A their
commander of Fidel (astro's an long missing 4-yearold baby sit- t m„n( sald tday it is investi-
force said I hursday an anti- ter was found today and told a gating ton an urgent basis"
Ca strop.underground has, beensharrowing tale 'I being kidnaped .whether U.S. territory was used
formed by former comrades in and rapel peati dh by an ex-con- h hu .g nlanee
arm* 6f the Cuban revolutionary vict in a . x day mightmar . . - ' P"
leader. • Mame state'police sought kidnap
The, ex-officer also blamed Cu- and rape .warrants against Rod-
ben jpivemment antiaircraft fir<-| ni»y AUBtlnm of-Newcastte-Mamme,
for the death of two persons dur -who left the terror MAckcrt-girl at
ing a leaflet-dropping air raid on his brother’s home here early to-
Havana Wednesday. He said the
government attempted to . m a k. e
physician. Dr. Harold Eidinqff, is
expected to begin Monday — pro-
vided.’attorney can agree on a
„ "
By JOSEPH A. TAYLOR
United Press" International
HAVANA (UP!)—Premier' Fidel
. ( astro today promised to turn all
ol Cub into a great armed camp
to battle mounting counter-revo-
lutionary attacks and "bombings''
by planes which he said were
bused in the United State*.
His promise, to mobilize "all
workers, farmhands, profession-
als arid even down to and includ-
ing our women," came near the
■ nd of a marathon television ap-
pearance in which he delivered
WASHINGTON COUNTY cotton
ginning ' though Thursday totalled
11,191 bales. And. sinners are on
“their last go-round," according to
County Agent J. W. Stufflebeme,
Jr He said there is still some
(Continued on page 8)
MIC3FILN SERVICE and sales co.
The Justice Department in District Mothers’ Club is sponsor-
1" 4g
Thursday after he ordered the
Justice Department to investigate
the rigging of television shows
The President, at his vacation j
retreat in Atlanta. Ga . said that
if true, the practice was deplora-
bie and "a terrible thing to do
to the American public.”
- jury by then - -----------—------------- ...
Lawyers for both the prosecution
and defense labored Thursday to
select jurors for the trial in which ■■ chureh
Eidinoff 50 is accused of murder- The services will be those held
mg led Andress school board for baptized infants in the church,
president and I- Paso lawyer a tThe priest will wear White
El Paso International Airport lastments and the five tiny coffins
lan 29 ’a a*
. . ,, , , , , will be covered with white lamb-/
Eidinoff accused Andress ot1 skin
Lt Hannan, a 29-year-old KC-97
tanker navigator, asked Thursday
mar, co-producers of the popular boy born at the Milroy Hospital
President Eisenhower got . the interview program "Person-To-
nh—tN operation into high gear (Continued on Page 6) seven pounds, thrte ounces
Unrest Mounting In Cuba
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cording to the report Special meeting Eastern Star,
in his speech to th Rotary, Al- Masonic Temple, 7:30 p.m. Initia-
lenson told of the steady increase tion.
school enrollment, using the num- n "
ber of students in the top four
(Continued on Page 6) ciation, 7 30 pm. at LaFonda Cafe
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