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NEW COLORADO CITY TRUSTEES—Dr. Oscar E Rhode,
left, and Johnny M. Moore, right, Saturday were elected to
three-year terms on the Colorado City School Board. De-
feated in the near record vote turnout was incumbent Dr.
J. D. Williams, critic of Supt. of Schools Ed E. Williams.
OSCAR WINNERS?
McCarthy to Answer
Murrow via TV Film,
BOSTON, April 3 W—Sen. Mc-
Carthy (R-Wis) said today he has
completed a filmed reply to tele-
vision commentator Edward R.
Murrow for showing on Murrow's
CBS-TV show next Tuesday night.
McCarthy said the film would
show "that Murrow is (1) a liar,
and (2) has been of great assist-
ance to the Communist cause."
He added be would make the film
available to any television station
that wants to show It.
The senator's comment was
made in the course of a brief news
conference at Logan Airport as he
arrived to speak tonight at a closed
meeting of the Beacon Society,
composed of Boston business and
professional men.
The film the senator referred to
Voters Oust
School Head Critic
By JOHN DANILSON
A near-record number of Colo-
rado City voters ousted s school
board critic of that city's school
superintendent Saturday while
Trent residents were voting for s
mayor and two city commissioners.
Runnels County was electing two
county commissioners and many
other West Texas points were
naming county and city school
trustees.
Spirited contests resulted to
deadlocks to several communities,
including Hamby where four school
trustee candidates — three of them
incumbents — found themselves
each with eight votes apiece and
seeking the same spot.
2 Write-Ins Win
At Aspermont a surprising dis-
play of write-in votes elected two
men, each by larger tallies than
the highest man who had filed tor
the ticket received.
One of the most competitive
races to the area took place in
the relatively small Elmdale
community where eight trustee
candidates sought three available
Pijames Freeman, veteran Taylor
County school trustee and current-
ly president of the county board,
appeared well out to front of other
candidates in his bid for re-elec-
tion. according to incomplete vot-
ing returns Saturday night
More Elections Tuesday *
Election of school trustees will
continue Tuesday in a number of
towns, although a majority of the
trustee elections were held Sstur-
day in addition, most municipal-
ities, including ‘Abilene, will hold
city council or commission elec-
tions Tuesday.
The hot Colorado City election
was fanned into flames by last
month's school board differences
concerning renewal of the contract
of Ed E. Williams, Colorado City
superintendent of schools.
A near-record total of 322 voters
elected Dr. Oscar E. Rhode and
Johnny M. Moore to three-year
terms with 566 and 545 votes re-
Defeated candidates, who ran
against Morgan and Medlock, were
John Pepper, Jr., who received
134 votes, and Mrs. Laura Duncan,
who received 112.
TYE
TYE, April 3 (RNS) — Voters
re-elected Elmer Mattingly, incum-
bent. and one new member, Wal-
ter Webb, as trustees of the Tye
Independent School District here
Saturday,
Webb received 12 votes, and
Mattingly, nine. Another incum-
bent, D N. Warner, lost out when
he received eight votes. A fourth
candidate, Marlon Hutstedler, re-
ceived three votes.
TRENT
TRENT, April t (RNS) - J. M.
sems M "PLAEL
ent School District in balloting here
Saturday. They won the poets over
three others.
Wray V. William was elected
mayor and Cart Edw ards end H. H.
McLeod were elected city commis-
stoners. They were unoppsoed.
Stowe received 70 and Robinson
51 votes in the trustee race while
Odell Freeman received 33, Onis
Graham 12, and W. T. Willis 14.
A total of 92 votes were cast in
the school election and 35 in the
commission and mayor's race.
McCarthy Story on Page 13-A
is his reply to a telecast a few
weeks ago to which Murrow was
critical of McCarthy and his meth-
ods of investigating alleged Com-
munist infiltration.
“It was not possible to give the
complete picture of Murrow to 25
minutes,” McCarthy said. "The
time is too short to give all the
documentation necessary." He
added, however,'that be would fol-
low it up and make available to
those who want it the full docu-
mentation.
McCarthy was greeted by cheers
hisses—the cheers predominating-
when be entered the airport lobby
after hia flight from New York.
Several persons reached out and
shook his hands.
As he left his plane he was
heard to say that he "had to see
John Fox of the Post first.” Fox
is the Post publisher. He bought
the paper with the avowed purpose
of fighting communism. — 1
Meeting with newsmen in an
anteroom, McCarthy quickly flip-
ped through a half dozen topics.
Told that Otis Archer Hood, long-
time chairman of the Communist
Party to Massachusetts, had been
arrested today on a charge of vio-
lating the state’s 1951 subversion
BALLINGER
BALLINGER, April 3 (RNS) —
Two school trustees and two coun-
ty commissioners were elected here
Saturday.
In all ,238 votes were cast for
five candidates to the trustee race
and three to the commissioner race.
C. A. Bissett was re-elected trus-
tee for the Ballinger Independent
School District by 164 votes, and
E. B. Underwood was elected to
succeed Tom Agnew by 111 votes.
Agnew received 80 votes. Other
candidates were Weyman Mason,
who got 75 votes, and Henry Car
der, who received 27 votes.
Herman Price beat Wesley Wood
for county commissioner of Pre-
cinct One with 1M votes to Wood’s
93. *
E. E. King, sole candidate for
See ELECTIONS, Pg. 4-A, Col. 1-1
POLITICAL POT BOILS
School-less Sylvester Elects
2 Trustees From Field of 12
spectively.
Dr. J. D. Williams, critic of Supt.
Williams, was not elected. Dr. Wil-
liams. only incumbent on Satur-
day’s ticket at Colorado City, last
year had questioned the legality
of Supt Williams’ contract renew-
al on the grounds that there was
no csil for a second to his motion
to cancel the contract.
Vote of Confidence
Dr. Williams received 405 votes
—almost double the number be
received in 1961 when elected, but
not enough in 1954. ,
Public, interest was stirred by
the controversy. Jinx Powell,
school board president st Colorado
City, said that every board mem-
ber had had the opportunity to
second the motion.
The vote could be considered a
vote of confidence to Supt. Wil-
liams, since Rhode, who led the
ticket, was popularly .opposed to
be friendly to the superintendent
The detested Dr. William, was con-
sidered to be a critic of the pre-
aent school administration.
Both Dr. Rhode and Moore were
elected to public office for the first
time on Saturday
Dr. Rhode, 43, served as a ma-
jor to World War II. He la past
commander of the American Le-
gion, and past president of the
Lians Club and Chamber of Com-
merce. —
Moore, 34-year-old attorney, was
formerly s member of the FBI.
and served in Army intelligence
to World War II. He came to Colo-
rado City in 1927 and is a mem-
ber of the firm of Thompson. Wor-
rell and Moore.
A. T. Caffey received 202 votes
sod Abbie Northcutt, incumbent
received 33 write-in votes st Colo-
rado City. Northcutt did not file
for a place on the ticket
BUTTERFIELD
BUTTERFIELD, April 3 (RNS)-
Jack Richards sad John Keith were
re-elected in the school trustee
election bare Saturday.
Richards polled 20 votes and
Keith 12.
ROSCOE
ROSCOE, April 3 (BNS) - In
the heaviest voting here in years.
R. L. Morgan and L. I. Medlock,
with 195 and 159 votes respective
ly, were elected M Roscoe school
trustees Saturday.
E. w. Wimsn received 222 votes
while running for Nolan County
school trustee. .
SYLVESTER, April 3 (RNS) —
One of Sylvester's most hotly con-
tested school board elections in his-
tory came to a boll Saturday in
this small school district - which
desn’t have a school.
Twelve candidates vied for the
two school board posts in an elec-
tion which drew a near record vote
of 92, a close rival to a heavy Dem-
ocratic primary vote.
The district has a population of
only a couple of hundred people.
"I think nearly all of the qualified
voters voted,” Mrs. Floyd J. Mc-
Cain. election judge, said. “There
were very few who didn’t."
Winners were Walter Douglas
with 59 votes and Tommy Parsons
with 33. Runners-up were A. C.
Smith, who polled 17, and J. M.
Lanning, who got 19 votes.
Hest of the election centered
around the fact that in the past
two years Sylvester hss loot first
its high school and then its gram-
mar school.
Students have been contracted to
Touchstone Elected
Jones Commissioner
Roby and MeCaulley schools, but
many parents of small children
want the grammer school
■ brought back to the district.
A petition has been circulated
around the largely-rural district,
and so far parents of 45 children
have signed, Mrs. McCain said.
Two other schools of thought are
for consolidating the district with
Roby or McCaulley or continuing
contracting students to the two
districts.
Nobody hss been pushing to re-
open the high school, but "We do
want our grads school back." Mrs.
McCain said.
She was unable to say just which
policy the two candidates stood for,
but pointed out that both were fath-
ers of small children.
law, McCarthy said:
“Oh, good. I know all about
him. I’m glad to see him picked
up. Each time they arrest one of
the leaders of the Communist par-
ty it helps to pull their teeth."
Asked to comment on the ap-
pointment of Samuel P. Sears,
Boston attorney, as counsel for the
Senate Investigating subcommittee
in Its special inquiry Into McCar-
thy's controversy with the Army,
the senator remarked:
"I don’t think I have met
Bears." -
McCarthy was asked if he had
heard a report that Sears had fol-
lowed him over Wisconsin la 1952
attempting to raise funds for Mc-
Carthy's reelection. A
“He may well have," the senator
said. “I don’t know whether he did
or not.”
McCarthy said he doesn’t know
Joseph N. Welch of Walpole, cho-
Me to be counsel for the Ammyet
Nor did McCarthy have com-
ment on the ease of Army Pvt. G.
David Schine, former investigator
for his subcommittee, who was de-
nied permission to enroll to an ad-
vanced criminal investigation
course at Camp Gordon. Ga.
The case of former Maj. Irving
Peress, who figured in the row be-
tween McCarthy and the Army,
also came up. Newsmen asked Mc-
Carthy to comment on the Army's
action in turning the record over
to the Department of Justice.
"That was long overdue,” the
senator said. "But even at this
late date it is good.”
HEY, KIDS!
BUGS BUNNY
CALLING ...
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ready, youngsters, and you’ll be
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The first sketch and story will
appear In both mornin, and even-
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fun—and the money!
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THEIR BABY LOST IN THE SEA—Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald, frantic with fear that
their baby is lost in the pounding surf near their beach home in Hermosa Beach, Calif.,
turn to each other as they raced up and down the beach. The child, Michael, 19 months
old, had strayed from the fenced yard of his home a few minutes before. A passerby told
police she saw the tot in the water. The boy has not been found and presumably was
swept out to sea. This picture was taken by Jack Gaunt, Los Angeles Times photographer
who lives nearby. _______________________________________________
Decision Not
Yel Made on
Intervention
By ROBERT s. ALLCN
(World Copyright
Post-Hall Syndicate.)
WASHINGTON, April 4; Presi-
dent Eisenhower is gravely consid-
ering taking emergency measures
to avert a French disaster in Red-
periled Indo-China.
Final decision has not yet bees
made on such fateful intervention.
Various military steps are being ,
discussed by the President and his
top Pentagon and State Depart-
ment advisers. They involve the
possible use of U. S. air and novel
forces.
Radford Favors Help
Such measures are known to be
favorad by Admiral Arthur Rad-
ford.
It has been an open secret for
sometime that the chairman of the
Parents Still
Possess Hope
For Lost Lad
HERMOSA BEACH. Calif., April
3 (—The John McDonalds wan-
dered, distraught, to their fenced-in
back yard today aa the search
continued for the body of their
baby, believed to have toddled to
hia death in poundtag surf near
their oceanfront home. .
It was from the same back yard
that 19-month-old Mike apparently
escaped yesterday and made Ms
way to the beach.
Members of the family said the
McDonalds have about given up
hope and it is “pretty well settled
to their minds" that Mike drowned.
“Mike could swim to his bathtub
when he was only six months old."
Mrs. McDonald recalled. "He for-
got bow later, but every time he
got loose he headed for the water.
He loved it.”
After a sedative-induced sleep
the McDonalds visited the beach
today, but mostly they wandered
in the back yard.
Yesterday they stayed until
nightfall, McDonald combing the
beach restlessly for some sign of
Ms son's body. He had to be re-
strained by his wife and county
police, at times, from plunging into
the waves. __
While swimmers nearby took ad-
vantage of a sunny day, crowmen
of a county rescue beat dragged
for the body today ta and beyond
the surf.
Par
IV(
SAN DIEGO, Tex., April 1 .
George B. Parr apparently is still
top-man in the rough and tumble
politics of Duval County.
. Parr-backed candidates were out
in front by a comfortable margin
in a school board election in the
Benavides Independent school dis-
trict
The stakes were small: three
seats on the board. But the election
was the first to be held here store
state and federal agencies and
citizens groups rose up to challenge
the rule of the "Duke of Duval.”
It was billed as test of Parr's poli-
tical strength.
At Benavides, a complete count
showed incumbent board members
with a better than II majority over S-EKMIScu,
rival Freedom Party candidates, triet’s finances. Four members
The count at Freer was Incom-
plete and not expected to be known
Joint Chiefs of Man advocated
giving this kind of combat aid to
the desperately-pressed French. It
was on Radford's recommendation
that President Eisenhower author-
ized sending several hundred Air
Force technicians to Indo-China ta
February.
Most urgent decision facing the
administration is what aid. if any,
to rush to the hereto defenders of
surrounded Dien Bien Phu.
Fortress Doomed
Unless they get outside help, the
vital fortress is virtually doomed.
Reports from U. S. sources ta
the war tone give the French only
afextiischanee of holding off
munist attackers. The latter have
until nearly midnight
But Part said:
“It's going as expected The only
question in my mind had been bow --1=*==-umera —- —-
much strength my opponents had suffered an estimated 16,000 case /
gained." —““ - 1--STAR TRE
He said he believed as the vote
was counted at Freer, the ballots
would be in his favor.
Freedom Party members said.
they were pleased at the showing
they had made.
Texas Rangers patrolled voting
booths as crowds turned out. There
were no election day Incidents
The Farr-backed board members
running for re-election stuck to
their jobs in the midst of twin
probes by the state and federal
government into the school dis-
Oil Equipment Firm Moving
Headquarters Office Here
Dunigan Tool and Supply Co.,
ono of fee state’s largest oil field
equipment firms. is moving its
headquarters from Breckenridge
to Abilene.
Thla was announced Saturday by
James B. Dunigan, president of
the firm.
ANSON, April 3 - J. E. Touch-
stone of the Noodle Community
Friday was given approval of Jones
County Precinct 4 voters for the
post of county commissioner
Touchstone received 404 votes in —---
the run-off Saturday while his op- Ground will be broken Monday
ponent, Herman Steele, got 269. morning on a new home, office
Jones County Judge Roger Gar- building in the 1500 Block of South
rett Jr., will probably appoint Treadaway Blvd., facing eaat
Touchstone now to fill the unexptrod across the street from fee com-
vacancy in the Precinct 4 port pany’s present store building.
caused by the death of Odell Rain •— “—'—Man Ca -* Ahitama
water in February.
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WEATHER BUREAU
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Rose Construction Co. of Abilene
will erect the building, which will
house offices for about 20 of Duni-
gan’s headquarters employes.
Nearer Operation’s Center
“We think Abilene will be near-
er the center of our operations,”
Dunigan gave as the reason for
the move.
He said that about 14 families
and six single employes will come
here from Breckenridge. Dunigan
will move also, probably before
the others make the transfer.
Dunigan Tool and Supply Co.
now operates two machine shops,
one in Breckenridge and one in
Odessa. The Odessa shop is the
largest oil field repair shop in Ter-
with s 125-foot front facing on
Treadaway. It will be constructed
of Norman brick, faced with Green
stone.
The modernistic structure will
be folly air-conditioned and cen-
irony heated, and will be furnish-
ed with all-new furniture.
Founded in 191*
Dunigan Tool and Supply Co.
waa organised to Breckenridge in
1919, and set up fee first oil field
repair shop to thst city- It soon
expanded, establishing shops to
Westbrook and the Panhandle, both
of which later were moved.
The company carries s full line
Of Oil country supplies, including
drilling and pumping machinery.
“ The decision to leave Brecken-
ridge was hard to make, but 1
feel like I’m just moving back to
my old stomping grounds," Duni-
gaa said.
He and a brother, E. J. Duni-
■an. Jr., drilled Taylor County's
first producing oil well in 1929,
southwest of Tye on the Hunter
lease. They still had production
to that arsa. In addition to oil
properties elsewhere. E. J., Jr.,
now lives In Pampa.
Shop Stays in Brock
Dunigan said the machine chop
will still be operated in Brecken-
ridge.
Highway Bid
Opening Set
Bids will be tabulated April U at
Austin by the Highway Department
on highway projects in Taylor,
Jones and Howard counties.
Ths area projects will be among
$14 million to road work—the larg-
est package of projects ever offer-
ed at one time to the history of
the Highway Department — on
which bids will be opened April
13-14 at Austin.
A joint Jones-Taylor County proj-
ect calls for widening bridges on
U. S. 277 and 83 from near Stam-
ford to 1.9 miles north of Anson,
and from Abilene to the Jones
County line, by sections.
District Highway Engineer J. C.
(Jake) Roberts said Saturday night
the bridges would be widened to 38
feet to conform to the already
widened highway.
The Howard County project to
widening of U. S 80 from Webb
Air Force Base west of Big Spring,
through town to the Cosden refinery
east of there, a total of 6.2 miles.
Tbs highway, when completed, will
conform to the four-lane freeway
pattern planned for U. S. 80 through
this area, Roberts said.
Houstonian Picked
Library Group Proxy
quit.-13
The candidates for both factions
agreed to have the ballots impound-
ed as soon aa they were counted.
Running for re - election were
Trey Carey, Paul Orees and W.C.
Kelley. Opposing were Bob May-
berry, Manuel Oana and FJ.
Sparkman.
At Benavides, Carey poled 765
votes: Green 756. Mayberry got
Md. Sparkman 302, M. Garza 319.
Out of the tint 100 votes counted
st Freer, the six men were run-
ning shout even. .
The company also has eight
stores and three branch sales of
----.--"I
ire humidity at 8o p.m. a per. 4,250
flees They are located ta Pampa,
Fort Worth, Abilene, Houston, Mid-
land, San Angelo, Graham, Me
Carney, Odessa, Winters and
Franklin, La.
The Abilene store has been ta
operation for about two years, with
Cliff Ritchey as manager.
The new building will include
square feet of floor space.
1W
Other officers of the company
are F. A. Dunigan of Breckenridge,
vice president; the president’s son,
Pat of Fort Worth, secretary-
treasurer, M. A. Monaghan of
Breckenridge, vice president and
-----Meermsh =
Dunigan said key employes of
the company are stockholders, and
feat the firm operates its own re-
tirement plan.
MINERAL WELLS, April 3 IH-
ton, was unanimously elected pre-
sident of the Texas Library Asso-
ciation today.
Costly Dock
Strike Ends
NEW YORK. April 3 Un—This
port’s longest and costliest water-
front strike ended today as wage-
hungry longshoremen returned to
work.
The shipping industry estimated
that the 29-day walkout cost the
port a half-billion dollars and ex-
pressed fear some of the business
diverted to other ports never would
return.
The National Labor Relations
Board has called for a new bar-
gaining election la a move to sta-
bilize the long tempestuous water-
front situation, but no data has
been set.
Leaders of the International
Longshoremens Assn., independ-
ent, said they bowed to an NLRB
tdict that unless the walkout ended
“forthwith," their union would be
left eft the ballot.
The ILA called the strike in a
jurisdictional dispute with the ri-
val American Federation of Labor
union. It hoped to win recognition
as bargaining agent before the
AFI. made further inroads in its
efforts to control the docks.
unities in the past week's fightings,
but Red commanders are continual-
ly throwing in new units in suicidal
assaults."
These “human wave" attacks
have steadily overrun French posi-
lions and exhausted the surviving
defenders. Also, the'Reds have
been able to prevent supplies an
reinforcements from reaching the
fortress either on fee ground or by,
air. d
Communist artillery has virtual,
ly driven French planes from the
air. The French lost more than 35
combat and transport planes in fee
past week. At the same time, a
French relief column of 5,000 troops
encountered such heavy resistance
that this effort to reinforce Dice
Bien Phu had to be abandoned.
Jets, Bombers Needed
Military authorities say privately
only jet fighters and high - flying
bombers in around-the-clock bat-
tering can provide the French with
fee assistance that stone can save
Dien Bien Pho
The French baa naked for such
American intervention.
General Paul Ely, French chief
of staff, made the plea during Ma
visit to Washington when he con-
ferred with President Elsenhower,
Admiral Radford, and ether high
officials.
The administration to consulting
our Allies as this momentous de-
cision.
Secretary of State Dulles has dis-
cussed fee matter with the British,
Australia and New Zealand.
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
McCarthy Story .........13
Oil news. .....14-15
SECTION B
Chy Election
cry hell Beer .7.5
Bank Fefe ........
section C
Wedding Bells.....
YWCA Calender )..
Look in Mirror ..
PTA Calender ...
Ferblensbly Specking
piccier Seoosca
West Texes Pioneers
Business Outlook. ...
SECTION D
Spent,.......
Ferm news ......
Redie & TV log...
..10
..11
12.13
.....2-3
.....13
NEW HEADQUA RTERS—Work will begin Monday on this new home office for about 20 employes moving here from the company’s former head
building for Dunigan Tool and Supply Co The modernistic structure will ters in Breckenridge. (Architect a sketch by Preston M Geren of Fort V
face east in the 1500 block of South Treadaway Blvd. It will house offices . --------------------------------------R
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