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CLOUDY, '
WARMER
VOL. LXXV, NO. 180
The Abilene
rms MORNING
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES" —Byron
Associated P-ess (AP) ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1955—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
CHAMPIONS ON PARADE—Abilene High School’s head football coach Chuck Moser,
center, and co-captains of the AAAA state championship team, Sam Caudle, left,
and Henry Colwell, are shown as they rode in a downtown parade Monday. Both
Caudle, a guard, and Colwell, a halfback, are seniors. Another picture, Pg. 1-B. (Staff
photo)
HENSON PRAISES COPS
Store Surrounded,
But No Thief There
8 Killed as
wo B47:
Ram Together in Ai
Eastern Half
Of U.S. Gets
TO BUILD BACKLOG
$5 Billion Budget
Wintry Blast For Foreign Aid
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A prewinter surge of arctic air-
packing ’round the clock subzero
readings for some northern re-
gions—stung the eastern half of the
nation with the season’s worst cold
Monday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1* un—The
administration plans to continue
foreign aid spending next year at
about the four billion dollar level
now expected this year, although
Goodfellows'
Planes
37€
53
296
25€
25€
31
47‘
21<
23€
25*
25*
I 9
15*
Anxious policemen Monday night even in this small area we have
made a dry run to Mack Henson’s shoplifting.
Supermarket, 3014 Ambler Ave.,
in a desperate effort to catch the
Westinghouse
Turns Down
Arbitration
The mercury slid to 45 degrees
below zero in Bemidji and Big
Falls, Minn—coldest Minnesota
weather in 11 months. , In 1 J
It ’warmed up” to -23 in Bemidji sin. Santan
by midday Monday, I UIIU DVVIV
Duluth and Minneapolis. Minn.,
"warmed up” to -11. Duluth had an
i overnight low of -JO and Minne-
[ apolis -21.
Danbury, Wis . had an overnight
law of -44; Bismarck, N.D.. -30;
Lone Rock, Iowa. -20, and Rock-
ford, Ill -7.
Midday temperatures remained
below zero throughout the Dakotas
and northern Montana.
brace-and-bit burglars in action
"Some people tell me that the po- I PITTSBURGH. Dec 19 '*
lice aren’t doing their job because Westinghouse Electric Corp. today weather, lowest reading so far this
-* - .. - season.
— Chicago shivered in 2 above' $8,500.
Over $6,000
Abilenians contributed $232 to
the Goodfellows Monday to push
total contributions over the $6,000
mark.
The Goodfellows now have $6,121-
, .81 toward the Christmas goal of
| we’re having so many rejected proposals by governors of
Thayne se many burglaries, three states that the firm and two
Shortly before 9:30 pm, a man but it’s a big job in a growing city
identified only as "Mr Morris of like this T think the try
1934 Ambler Ave " called police 1 ing to catch em just as hard %
headquarters and reported. "I just they can." Henson declared.
saw someone at Mack Hensons , do everything I can pad The arbitration proposals were
on Ambler and I think there’s the ill de everything L can to help made separately by Gov. George
trouble there.” | them not only because I don t want M Leader of Pennsylvania Gov and New York State.
Within five minutes, four police mil ne again in becau • Averell Harriman of New York and Subzero temperatures were in
-----------------a-Iit will help everybody in town I Gov. Theodore McKeldin of Mary, prospect for Tuesday morning
land over much of Ohio. West Virginia.
| Both McKeldin and Leader pro-western and northern Pennsyl-
posed binding arbitration. I vania and as low as -10 in central
The proposals came on the and northern New York.
same day that the big electric ap- Most of the area east of the
pliance firm began making $100 Rockies was ia the arctic air ex-
Christmas loans to idled employes cept southern Florida and Texas
who have not worked in the last and • stretch along the Gulf
Coast.
cars were either on the scene or think the police need our help."
on the way Three policemen in __________________________-
separate cars surrounded the su- 1
permarket and one detective car
left the pouce station to investigate JOT d NTT DOOTS
the “trouble.” BVIMSH Vol
There was no trouble. . age
Employes in the store were lust I aniclamuisa
closing for the night The store LegiSidture,
stayed open until s p.m. for the • •
first night during the Christmas e , — । t
rush Mark Henson told a reporter Tefe aeman
Morris had seen three men leave LIGUITOT
ing the store shortly before 9:30 |
Melvin Henson Pete Elston and JERUSALEM, Israel Sector,
Euell Adams, all employes, were Dec. 11 —The Ramallah radio
closing up. 1
announced King Hussein dissolved
striking unions immediately end
the long walkout and submit dis-
puted issues to arbitration.
The arctic air swept toward the
Atlantic seaboard on northwest
winds. The U.S. Weather Bureau
in Washington issued cold wave
warnings for the Ohio Valley, West
Virginia, most of Pennsylvania
Here are the latest contributions:
Gold Band Class, First Meth
odist Church .........$25 00
BiUy Ray Ellis ..........10.00
George B. Buescher .... 500
Anonymous ...........2.50
Henry Colwell .........3.00
Anonymous ......:.... 5.00
Most of the area east of the
Homebuilders Class. Alders
gate Methodist Church —
Mr. and Mrs. Harold D.
Austin ...............
Austin and Greg King ..
Bessie Mae Sellars .....
Miss McDade’s Kindergarten
Class. St John’s Day
10.00
into
asking for an appropriation of some
five billion dollars.
This was learned from an au-
thoritative source today as ad-
ministration officials sought to un-
scramble what they termed a mix-
up over their spending and ap-
propriations plans on foreign aid
for the 1957 fiscal year which be-
gins next July 1.
It was explained that the pro-
posed increase in requests to Con-
gress for new spending authority—
while spending plans remain un-
changed-results from a decision
that the backlog of foreign aid
spending authority must be built |
up a little.
No Letup Due
The apparent reason is s con-
clusion by the administration that
there will probably be no letup in
cold war pressures for some time
to come.
The decision appeared also to
point another linger: Soviet For-
eign Minister Molotov refused st
the recent conference of foreign
ministers in Geneva to accept any
Western proposal aimed at easing
tensions between the Iron Curtain
and free world areas. Russian
Communist party chief Khrush-
chev repeated; took a hostile at-
YES, THERE 18 A SANTA
CLAUS— Christmas shoppers in
downtown Santa Monica, Calif.,
who dallied over their purchases
had cause to thank Santa Claus.
This man who refused to give
his name ranged the streets
dropping pennies into parking
meters on which time had ex-
pired. (AP)
From Bases
In Florida
TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 19 UN-Eight
airmen were killed today when two
B47 Stratojet bombers collided in
flight, causing an explosion that
terrified residents for miles.
The sir seemed to be filled with
fire, said witnesses who watched
one plane fly to pieces in the air
and the other break into a thou-
sand bite when it plunged into the
ground.
Two airmen tried to ball out but
they never had a chance. Their
ship was too close to the ground.
Florida-Based
The burning, spewing wreckage
of one plane passed over a trailer
court in the area, dropping small
bits of hot metal but nobody wee
struck. The trailer court is half a
mile from where the molten mate
landed
One of the planes was from Mac-
Dill Air Force Base here and the
I other from Pinecastle Air Force
Base near Orlando.
Public information officers said
it appeared the MacDill craft was
having difficulty with ita landing
gear. The Pinecastle plane flew
underneath to determine the trou-
ble. The ships flew along like that
for a while when both craft ap-
parently hit a downdraft.
Eyewitnesses said the planes ap-
peared to be flying very close to-
gether for miles.
30 days. Both striking and fur-
toughed employes are eligible
The AFL-CIO International Un-
| ion of Electrical Workers—biggest |
of the two striking unions—accept- ,
ed the proposal to arbitrate. The
[United Electrical Workers (Inde-
pendent) withheld comment
la rejecting the offer, Westing-
house said:
“That police department is on the Jordan’s Parliament today and
ball,” Mack Henson said after the called for new elections The move ond-rtand th.
incident. The man who has had his came after a wave of Arab riots EMs -5
supermarket burglarized five and disorders protesting reports 1s disputes over to arbi,
times, twice recently, had nothing Jordan may join the Western- E , . titre that m AV Types
but praise for the policemen and sponsored Baghdad pact. I somited areieeanohe
detectives./
He has foot 11,687 in one burglary
and $225 in another within the last
two months.
“They’ve sure cooperated with
me,” Henson said. "They’re doing
their dead level beet. I know that,”
he said Monday night
a- "We had a call out here a few
nights ago and I know within one
minute after I called the police,
they were out here 1 don't know
where they come from, but they
were here
"It’s a hard job to track down
burglars and cetch them," he said | in a clash between the demonstra-
“We have a dozen people working | tors and Arab Legionnaires called
at the store here every day, and to quell the disturbance
. ' submitted to arbitration However,
No date was mentioned for the in this matter, because of our obli-
voting in thebroadcast by the Jor- gations to stockholders, we cannot
dan-controlled radio station. delegate to a third party a decision
The disorders spread earlier to- which would affect the competitive
day to the Jordan section of Jeru- standing of our company for at
salem, where 200 to 300 rioters least the next five years.”
stormed the Turkish consulate The The IUE has frequently suggest-
angered Arabs torethe Turkish ed to the past that the dispute be
flag from the consulate building submitted to arbitration.
and wounded Turkish Consal Gen- Meanwhile, hundreds of workers
eral Hakki Kentli, who later es- took advantage of . $100 Christmas
csped into the Israeli sector of the loan plan from the company The
city. money can be paid back on easy
Unconfirmed reports said four terms after the strike
Arabs were killed and 27 injured -----------------------------------
WITH MEAT CLEAVER
County TB Drive
$3,000 Shy of Goal
- The Taylor County Tuberculosis
A | Assn. fund raising campaign was
uSDONO AccucAO still $3,000 short of its goal Mon-
• SRPSS BVI WOES daj with only It days remaining
I of the official campaign.
Donations Monday totalled $6,-
733.09. This compared with $6,784.-
91 on the same date last year The
Of Wife’s Death
GAINESVILLE, Tex., Dec. 19 n vas shoes apparently discarded by
—Murder charges were filed late her killer
today against Wilbur Thomas
(Pete) Brown in the meat cleaver er said Brown was arrested at the
Dallas County Sheriff Bill Deck
1956 goal 1a $10,000
Mrs Buelah Dusick, executive
secretary of the association, said
only about 3,000 of the 13,000 letters
sent out containing Christmas seals
had been returned with donations
slaying of his wife home of a relative in Dallas with-
The 23-year-old nurses' aide was out any trouble He wore cowboy , . .,
found dead early today in the boots One sleeve was torn from hisDuval County c
couple's blood - splattered garage shirt, and the garment appeared Hural CUSINT 3
apartment A stained meet cleaver bloodstained.
Cooke County Sheriff O.E Whis- Treasurer Quits
nand said the Dallas relative had
called her kin here after Brown SAN DIEGO, Tex, Dec. 19 -
appeared .at her home "acting The resignation o4 Victor Leal as
peculiarly treasurer of Duval County Friday
A check M the Gainesville Sani | was disclosed today by county
torium showed Mrs Brown had not judge Dag Tobin Jr., who said a
reported for work st her regular successor is expected to be named
3 p.m. Sunday shift. Wednesday.
Brown did not return to work I At San Diego today, Leal said
he had given up the post because
of "too many worries ”
was an her chest
Brown, a former mental patient
released from a hospital about
three months ago, was arrested
about two hours later in Dallas
and immediately returned here.
‘Don’t Know Why’
‘‘I don’t know why 1 did it,”
Brown told Texas Ranger Lewis
Bigler and other officers in the
presence of reporters
_____.. ....... after lunch Sunday railroad offi-
He said he loved his wife and cials said.„ _____„ C--.-----
An uncle of Mrs. Brown, Ralph “I have friends on both sides,
Clodfelter. went to the Browns’
apartment, broke in the locked
door and found the body
Coldfelter told officers he had
the two had not quarrelled
"I just don’t know why," he re-
peated again and again.
Brown, 27. employe for the Santa veureaver vnu vicers me nmu .
Fe railrood here said Ms with was driven by the apartment Sunday
killed shoot 2:15 or 1:30 pm, yes- night and found it dark with the
terday car gone. He said he thought
Justice of the Peace Carl Burch- nothing about it until the telephone
field said the body, clad only in ------
underwear, was lying in s door-
way between the living room and
bedroom ef the tiny apartment He
said there were numerous large
gashes in her heed
Nearby was a pair of bloody can-
and 1 don’t want to do anything to
hurt any of them, he said
NEWS INDEX
car gone. He said he thought
call from Dallas this morning.
Whisnand said Brown was re-
leased about three months age
from tee U.S. Public Health Hos
pital in Fort Worth where he re.
ceived treatment for a meptal dis-
order.
SECTION A
Wemen’s news
Redie, TV logs
Oil news
SECTION (
Obituaries
low* ......
Editorials I......
Comics .......
Ferm, markets ....
4-5
3.4.
.. 11
Blizzards Kill
10 in Europe
LONDON, Dec. 1* —Ten peo-
pie died today in the first savage
blizzards of winter over northern
Europe
At Karasjok, Norway, the tem-
perature droppod to 40 degrees be-
low zero
Britain had ita coldest night of
the winter. Road and rail services
were crippled by fog and ice.
In the Gulf of Bothnia, between
Finland and Sweden eight ships
stuck fast in rapidly tightening ice
packs. Helicopters took off from
Helsinki to aid the tiny British
freighter Judith Mary, her hull
crushed by the ice pressure, but
were forced back by blizzards
Raging winds ripped several
thousand logs free from their
moorings in Oslo and sent thorn
swirling dangerously into the main
shipping lanes.
Six people died of the intense
cold in Denmark, Norway and
Sweden and four more were killed
in rood accidents ia Britain
All Thames shipping was halted
by choking yellow fog and plane
service from London was disrupt-
ed
North Texas Due
For Hard Freeze
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A hard freeze was due to tap the
School +.............
Anonymous.........
Mr. and Mrs W. G.
Christopher .......
Mr and Mrs O. B Dortch
Anonymous ..........
Julia Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Harold A
Inman ..............
Knights of Columbus, Abilene
Council 2163 .........
Kaye Stankewitz
Mrs Myrtle Williams
Victory Men’s Bible Class
D. L Holley Auto Service
W A Bishop
Frank and Grace
Conselman ......
Mr and Mrs W. R Echols Jr
Mrs. E S. Cummings ...
Mrs. Fannie Humphrey
Stuart A. Jones.........
Mrs. George Sallee ....
Anonymous ............
Anonymous ...........
Euna D. Andrews
Mary Gray Class, Fairmont
Methodist Church ...
Mr and Mrs. James M
Kendrick .............
Mrs. W. C. Jackson
Sgt and Mrs W illiam L.
Owen ................
Mrs Billy C. Young
Dr end Mrs John T Ar-
nold ..................
Eoline Grisham Grissom
Mr and Mrs J. T.
Robertson ......
Mr and Mrs Floyd Geo
1110
titude toward the West as he and
Russian Premier Bulganin toured
India and Burma—both sensitive I g 1 Close Together
areas—this month. Pa ml Rock w. watened them and were
Last summer there was talk inASPeA talking about how close together
the administration of making cuts . they were when we saw them col.
next year in foreign aid Since D lide,” said Joseph Pytko, a seafood
then, however, the Russian l leaders DelDer ES opera tor of nearby Gibsonton,
have again turned truculent. --------- * “There was a rather small ball
Of Gun Wound ======
M-u See CRASH, Pg. T-A. Cel. 4
BALLINGER, Dec. 19 (RNS) - Po ■ a
Edward R. Ripple. 41, Paint Rock Finnfer
barber, was found dead in his room DAT, TICTEGT
about 7:30 a.m. Monday with a " *
a caliber rifle lying by his side P I
Ripple died of a bullet wound I
behind the right ear. Sheriff Frank CVIHIUV, IIII
Edmondson said Monday night. "
====== Bodies Found
Ripple’s body was discovered by |
his father, Jerry Ripple of Paint PORT ST. JOE, Fla., Dec. MP
Rock —Two airplanes, apparently a B29
Born in Eola on Oct 21, 1914, bomber and a jet fighter from
Ripple moved to Rowena when he Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., col-
was a child and lived there until lided about four miles west of Port
1946 when he moved to Paint St. Joe tonight. Deputy Sheriff
Rock. J. T. Hersey reported.
Survivors include the father and The number of casualties was
mother of Paint Rock: four broth-not immediately determined, but
ers, Emmitt of Paint Rock, Henry j police search parties reported find-
of Taylor, and Adolph and Ervin, ing three bodies.
both of San Angelo; two sisters, Hersey said that according to re-
Mrs Mary Dusek of Eola and porta toe fighter rammed the larg-
Mrs. Georgia Warren of Mount er plane.
View, Ark. . . Wreckage was found on toe Gull
Funeral will be held at 10 a.m. I Beach Highway, and other wreck-
Wednesday in Newby-Davis chapel. I age was believed to have fallen
with the Rev. Gordon Heil, Grang-
or minister, officiating. Burial will
be in Protestant Cemetery in Row-
Break Faith
Sen. Mansfield (D-Mont) of the
10 Foreign Relations Committee said
5 that if the administration is asking
five billions in new money, it has
5 00 “broken faith" with legislative
leaders. He said that only last
5.00 week they “were informed other-
wise.”
1 M
10.00
10.00
see
20.00
1000
5.00
10.00
15.00
2.50
The administration’s position
was said to be that if world ten-
sions were easing off to the point
where foreign aid could be cut
substantially in the near future,
the backlog of spewi ng authority
could be allowed to fall below the
6% blilion dollars it win probably
total at the end of this fiscal year.
A decision to keep unspent ap-
propriations at least that high, and
probably somewhat higher, seemed
to indicate that the administration
is now convinced that foreign aid
competition with the Soviet to like-
ly to grow M importance.
Sudan Stales
10.00
5.00
try .................10.00
Anonymous 100
Mr and Mrs J. G Bowden 10.00
Mr and Mrs. A. B. Robertson 10.00
Independence
KHARTOUM, Sudan. Dec 10-
Sudan’s Parliament unanimously
adopted a resolution today doriar
ing the country as independent
republic — ignoring the British-
Egyptian plan for a plebiscite to
decide whether it should be united
Anonymous ...........
Mrs Lavinia Ward .....
Mrs. J. Cress Whete
Anonymous ......
Rising Star Boy Scouts and
Scoutmaster. Troop 115
Anonymous ..... ..
Mrs E M Marsh ....
with Egypt
Even the present government’s
opposition in Parliament, which
once campaigned vigorously for
union with Egypt, voted for the
2.00
5.00
10.00
2.00
ena.
Funds Released
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec. 19
V—Four million dollars in U. S.
aid counterpart funds were re-
teased today for the construction
of nine Belgrade apartment build-
ines which will house 278 families.
further inland. Hersey said part of
the wreckage may have plunged
into the Gulf of Mexico.
The sheriff’s office was assisting
search parties from Tyndall, which
■ located near Panama City.
No other details were available
immediately.
The planes collided less than 200
miles northwest of Tampa, where
two B47s collided earlier today,
killing eight persons.
northern part of Texas Monday
night as a cold air mass which
moved in Sunday settled over the ARDO
state I Mrs. C. F. Sears
Frank and Nina Peebles
E F White Jr. .. .
Anonymous ......
Mrs R C Ems .....
Jeanne Deffebach
Temperatures as low as 12 de-
grees were expected to put ice in
the water buckets in the Panhan-
die Parts of North Central and
East Texas had IS degrees fore-
cast
tieorgana Hanks
5.00 resolution end exchanged jubilant
5.00 congratulations with government
10.00 supporters when it passed. Cele-
5.00 brations were staged in the streets
5.00 of Khartoum and other cities.
In London. Britain gave official
10.00
10.00 approval tonight to the Sudan Par
50.00 lament’s declaration ef inde-
25.00 pendence for the territory
10.00--------------------------------------------
Fisher Cattle King,
W. W. Barron, Dies
. . ___.___.__, Central Texas Machinery
Afternoon temperatures Tuesday Co
won’t be much warmer—if any—
than those ef Monday, forecasters
said.
Highest readings Monday ranged
from a chilly 40 degrees at Wichita
Falls to 75 at Brownsville.
Other afternoon temperatures in
cluded Fort Worth and Dallas 41,
Abilene and Waco 47, San Angelo
55. Austin 58, Midland 61. Beau-
mont 64, Amarillo 66, Houston 68,
I El Paso 70, Del Rio 73, Presidio
1 71 and Laredo 71
Takes Command
BUCKNER BAY, Okinawa, Dec
it Un—Vice Adm Stewart H Inger-
soll today took command of the ’
10.00
Mr and Mrs. Roy Branden
berger ...............
Anonymous .............
Anonymous ............
Paul H Scott
Mr and Mrs Al Stowe
Previous gifts.........
TOTAL
100.00
THE WEATHER
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5.60
$5,377.61
$6,121 81
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ROTAN, Dec. N (RNS) - w state parts in cattle organizations
W Barren, 79, former Fisher Coun-
ty banker and cattle king, died
Sunday morning nt his San Angola
home after a long illness
He had been to poor health since
suffering a stroke in 1942. He was
ranching at Alpine at the time and
moved to San Angelo 12 years ago
Born April 25, 1876, in Hamilton
County, he was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Sol Barron pioneer
ranch people. He lived to Rotan
about is years and was considered
He was featured in Volume 1 ef
SHOPPING
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U.S. 7th Fleet which stands guard *0.91'
in the tense Formosa Strait against * 22-3
Communist attack on Chinese Na- 991
tionalist Formosa and the Pesca-L CA-h
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one of the wealthiest men of the
area. He owned a number of ranch-
es in the area and held vast leases
in Texas Oklahoma and Kansas.
Be ia said to have branded 1,300
calves at sale time. At one time hi
the 1920s be was president of all
five banks to Fisher County. With
his son, W. E., he owned a bank
at Sylvester. Also during that
time he was president of a Borger
bank and a director of the Texas
Bank and Trust Co. at Sweetwater.
He served as Fisher County
school trustee and held several
the Historical Encylopedia publish-
ed by the Texas Historical Society.
Mr. Barron came to Fisher Coun-
ty in 1883 with his family where
his father continued in ranching
activities. He was marred on Dec
10 1895, to Vida Cave. He lived to
Sweetwater before moving to Al-
pine in the early 1930s.
Survivors are Me wife of San
Angelo; his son, W. E. of Rotan:
two daughters, Mrs Jack Gray • *
Rotan and Mrs A L. Perry
dren.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am Tuesday to Weathersbee
chapel here. Officiating will be
Otto Johnson, minister of the Rotan
Church of Christ, and the Rev
h.am oncFanTm
Burial will be in the Rotan Ceme-
tery Pallbearers will be Bob Stray,
in RungeTE
Raymond House
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