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SHOWERS;
HIGH WIND
The Abilene 3
mg MORNING
VOL. LXXVI, No. 237
__________WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
PRICE DAILY Se, SUNDAY 10c
jislators Quit
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FLASH RISING STAR FLOOD — Main Street in front day. Copperas Creek overflowed and the town was
of the Palace Drug Store looked like this as a 3.60 inch flooded for a short while. (Photo by B. A. Butler)
ram fell in a short period of time in Rising Star Thurs-
Rising Star Flooded;
Heavy Rain Forecast
By MIKE HILL
Reporter-News Staff Writer
Heavy rains measuring up to
four inches accompanied by high
winds up to 50 miles an hour
in gusts and hail the sire of "hen
eggs" buffeted the West Central
Texas area Thursday morning and
some light showers were reported
in scattered areas during the aft-
ernoon.
and was clear of the buildings
about 2 p.m.
S Feet Deep to Store
The high water came from two
branches of Copperas Creek which
the same area was covered with other workers. No tornado
four-feet of water and a lot heav-
ier damage was inflicted
was
confirmed but winds about 9 a.m.
Thursday blew the top off the dog-
house and blew down five telephone
15 Years for
Murder Given
Al Eastland
EASTLAND, May a (RNS) -
An all-male District Court
jury found George Crawford, East-
land Negro, guilty of murder with
malice and assessed him a 15-year
sentence after deliberating four
hours and 15 minutes here Thurs-
day.
The jury began deliberating at
12:30 p.m. and returned the guilty
verdict at 4:55 p.m
Crawford didn't change expres-
sion when he heard the verdict
read by jury foreman Harry Gur-
ney.
A poll was taken of the jury on
a motion by Defense Attorneys
Earl Conner Jr. and Allen Dab-
ney. Each juror answered that the
guilty verdict was his decision.
Defense attorneys said Thursday
night they were still considering
tiling an appeal.
Crawford was charged with the
fatal shooting of his wife, Lily
Pearl. Sept, 19, 1956, at the home
of friends.
It was Crawford's second trial
SEN. CARLOS ASHLEY
. .. highest honor
flows through Rising Star At one
time, water was two-feet deep in
the Weldon Roach Ford Motor Co.
Other businesses which had water
standing in them included West
Two men were injured when
“tornado-like winds" hit a dog-
house containing them and two WEST TEXAS, Pg. 4-A, Cols. 5.6
The heavy downpours brought a Texas Utilities Co., next door to
new flood threat to many areas -
as more rains are forecast for
Friday and 1____-__
Weather Bureau at the Abilene
Municipal Airport reported. At the intersection
Forecast for Friday calls for s And In Section Of Highway
scattered thunderstorms with local- * and - S' Highway 187 water
ly high winds and heavy rain.
A low pressure area in the Gulf
of Mexico pulled in warm air
that mixed with cooler air cur-
rents to set off Thursday’s heavy M a
shower line in the area, tersection.
the Ford dealer, the M. G. Joyce
E. ----- - Dry Goods Store and the Rising
Friday night, the Star Post Office. About 18 inches
of outer stood in each building.
was standing about it inches deep
and large trucks and fast moving
automobiles sent high waves surg-
ing into the Palace Drug Store.
' located at the South Main St. in-
O. E. Wilkerson, manager and
owner of the Palace Drug, said
Rising Star Flooded
Heaviest rainfall in the area u . — —
was 4 inches at Ranger which fell very little water actually flooded
between 9 and 11:30 a.m. Thurs- into the store except .when the
day. The heavy downpour sent
water running about one foot deep
over U.S. Highway 80 in three
places in Ranger. The water had
all run off by I pm except in a
few low places.
A flash flood developed at Ris-
ing Star when 3.50 inches of rain
fell in a brief period of time. A
second shower fell later in the
morning and a light shower was
reported about 5:30 p.m. The total
for the three showers was 3.60
inches.
Rising Star residents witnessed
high waves hit. He said the dam-
age to merchandise was not as
great as he feared earlier in the ALRANY
morning and that the store had A
been cleared of all water and ANDON
debris by 1 p.m.
WHERE IT RAINED
Daniel Defeated
On 2 Measures
By DAVE CHEAVENS
AUSTIN, May 23 (A) — The hectic 55th Legislature
adjourned tonight after last-gasp actions giving Gov.
Daniel a big victory on insurance regulation reform, but
defeats on water and lobby-control measures.
Angry charges were hurled and denied in the stormy
session's closing hours that some influential senators had
killed a stern lobby control law.
1st Step' Arms
Cuts U.S. Goal
The House chopped down one of the major measures
in the water and flood control program urged by Gov.
Daniel, but the law-makers on both sides of the capitol
gave him the drastic insurance board setup he had de-
manded.
Gov. Daniel himself was on hand as his aides and
legislative friends tried and failed in a last-minute effort
to review the plan for a 100
million dollar bond issue to
buy flood control space in
reservoirs to be built in the
future.
WASHINGTON, May 23 u—The
United States is reported working
for a "first step" disarmament
treaty with Russia and other na-
tions which could lead to pledges
on the murder charge The first
ended last February when Judge ---------
Turner Collie declared a mistrial by nonatomic countries agains
after the jury was unable to reach acquiring nuclear weapons,
an agreement after deliberating
24 hours.
ther complicate the world arms
picture by seeking to manufacture
or acquire atomic-hydrogen weap-
ons.
The reservoir plan had fallen
11 votes short in the house of
the majority needed to submit a
constitutional amendment. But the
6 p.m. adjournment hour ended
the final try on the water plan.
Clocks had been stopped, but only
for the purpose of permitting
clerks to dispose of session-ending
routine.
So far as legislation was con-
cerned, the session ground to a
rough stop on the dot that bad
been predetermined by a vote of
both Houses.
These points became known to-
night after two lengthy meetings
by top Eisenhower administration
leader* who are drafting a new
American disarmament proposal
to be offered to Russia at the , . -------------.
talks resuming in London Monday, nailed down another major water
Responsible informants stressed nmannanl the “* -I - 4.1.
that the limited accord to be
sought from Russia would include
cuts to weapons, manpower and
military spending aa well as
The plan also envisions a small
cut in armaments by Russia and
the Western powers, especially of
heavy weapons, missiles and
planes capable of delivering atom-
lc-hydrogen bombs.
Countries would turn over weap-
ons they agreed to cut from their
armed forces to specified inspec,
tion depots which would be super-
vised by a United Nations organ-
ization.
But the legislature bad already
Judge Collie, who also presided
at the second trial, completed his
charge to the jury shortly after
the trial was resumed Thursday
morntag. After hearing rebuttal
testimony by both sides the jury
began deliberations at 12:30 p.m.
District Attorney Joe Nuessle
and Frank Sparks, a special pros-
ecutor hired by the slain woman’s
parents, represented the state.
The defense requested the jury,
if it found Crawford guilty of kill-
his wife, to return a verdict
proposal—the 200 million dollar
bond issue to finance local dam
and reservoir construction. It also
was part of the governor’s pro-
gram.
ABILENE EASTLAND ...
Municipal Airport ........ 1.41 GOLDSBORO .
Total for Year ............19.91 HAMLIN ......
Normal for Year ..........7.98 HASKELL .....
ACC Farm ...............2.00 HAWLEY .....
2318 Campus Cts. ..........1.60 HERMLEIGH .
1026 Cedar..................1.50 HUCKABY ....
1433 Clinton ................1.40 JAYTON
682 E.N. 15th ..............2.40 KNOX CITY -
909 Hickory St................1.28 LAWN .........
3117 Hunt .................155 LORAINE .....
1305 Jefferson Dr........1.35 In Area......
1829 So. 8th..................1.27 LUEDERS -
2233 Walnut .............138 NARYNEAL ..
409 Woodlawn ...........1.50 MERKEL .....
LAKE ABILENE ..........1 30 wy.......
PHANTOM HILL LAKE ... 1.10.....
KIRBY LAKE .............1.35 " 2 miles NE %
.... S OVALO ........
.......POTOSI ........
.....60 PUTNAM ......
.....RANGER ......
.....170 RISING STAR
.....10 ROCHESTER .
.......ROTAN ........
* M RULE .......
.30 to 150 SAN ANGELO
*****, SANTA ANNA
— - 15 SEYMOUR ....
*** = 1.75 SHEP .........
• .60-1.00 SNYDER .......
STAMFORD ....
- 1.40-1.60 SWEETWATER
***** TUSCOLA .......
**** , TYE .......
.....3.00 WILMETH .....
......14 WINGATE .....
AVOCA .....
ASPERMONT
Little Damage ......
Mayor Walter Smith late Thurs- BALLINGER
day afternoon said the high wa- BENJAMIN
ters did very little damage to BIG SPRING
stocks of merchandise in the
stores “It looked very serious for
awhile this morning, but when 1
checked up on the damage later
in the afternoon I was surprised
that it was as small,” Smith add-
ed.
the highest waters in 34 years
following the early morning show-
er which measured up to two-feet
in the business district which was
nearly all under water The wa----_-------------
ter began to recede about noon the current ones since 1923 when
M. S. Sellers. Rising Star cor-
respondent. said he could not re-
call high waters to compare with
BAIRD
Around town .
BLACKWELL ..
BRADSHAW ...
BRECKENRIDGE
BROWNWOOD
BRONTE ........
BUFFALO GAP .
CISCO ...........
CLYDE ..........
COLEMAN ........
COLORADO CITY
DYKS WATER 'HIGH'
Flooding Avoided Here;
Abilene Spillway ’Sturdy
By ROB BUNDY
Reporter-News Staff Writer
Water in Abilene’s four creeks.
Elm. Little Elm, Cedar and Lytle,
was dropping Thursday night after
posing a shortlived flood threat to
several low-lying residential areas
here which were already flood-sore
from the past month's heavy rains.
By 10:30 p.m. Thursday, all the
creeks were dropping and Lew
Holle, civil defense directar, said
that he doesn't anticipate any flood-
lag such as we have had in recent
weeks.
He reported high water running
arenas the intersection of Grape St
and the Anson highway 'North
Park) and across several low-wa-
ter crossings in the Carver addi-
tion in southeast Abilene.
“There’ll be some high water to
the earth part of town but not as
high as previously unless we get
some more rains," Holle said.
As for evacuations, he didn’t
anticipate any in the North Park
sector, which has been flooded
many times during the past four
weeks of rain
"I don’t think we’ll have any
evacuation there since I don't be-
lieve all the people who are af-
fected by the flood waters have
moved back in,” Holle added.
In the Carver Addition, residents
were not expected to be in the
path of any exceptionally high wa-
ter* which would force them from
their homes. Water was sweeping
across the Lytle Creek low-water
crossings in that area Thursday
night to a depth of several inches.
Dyess High Water
By nightfall Thursday, water
coming down Little Elm and Elm
had covered the intersection of the
Old Anson Road and Huckleberry
Lane but was not as deep as prev.
iously.
At Dyess Air Force Base, flood
big Little Elm Creek again creat-
ed high water problems far awhile.
Lt. Col. William P. Kelliher, base
information officer, reported that
the high water Thursday was
"nothing serious."
Water covered the off-flooded
hospital road between the housing
area and the base and Texas Dr.
was again under water. For a
time, water threatened doorsills of
homes along Texas Dr. and some
adjacent streets but did not get
into the homes, Col, Kelliher re-
ported.
Shortly before 10 p.m. water at
Lake Kirby was gushing over the
spillway 11 inches deep, rising
from an afternoon reading of eight
inches. Holle said that he did not
waters pouring from the lake.
Thursday’s brief downpour
brought rises to the water flowing
over spillways at all four Abi-
lene lakes, Abilene, Kirby, Lytle
See LAKES, Pe. 44, Col. 7
1.90-2.40
...75
.. .6
...26
.. 1.40
...30
... 2.40
...40
up to to
4 miles east ..
WINTERS .......
WYLIE .........
3 miles west ............
STATE RAINS
CORSICANA ...............
DENTON ..................
ENNIS .....................
GAINESVILLE .............
MINERAL WELS ...........
PARIS ................
TEXARKANA ..............
FORT WORTH .............
ROCKWALL ................
SULPHUR SPRINGS ......
DALLAS ...................
Reps. Frates Seeligson, J. C.
Zbranek and Charles Hughes
"of murder without malice and rec-
ommend a suspended sentence
Prior to the shooting, Crawford,
was an attendant at Eastland
: 13 Memorial Hospital.
.... 1.70 -
E # Ellises Can
eep Hildy
3.60 TALLAHASSEE, Ha. May 33 »
" —Gov. LeRoy Collins put the love
— of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin B. Ellis
—for their foster daughter, Hildy
. ahead of religious sad legal ob
’"stacies today and refused to turn
"the Jewish couple over to Massa-
1" chuetts authorities as kidnapers
9 of the 6-year-old girl
" The governor refused the re-
, quest of Massachusetts for extra-
15 dition of the Ellises — and the
: crowded hearing room broke into
applause
Ellis, 45, and his wife, Frances,
113, smiled through their tears as
100
The agreement would initially
be concluded by the nations now
represented at the London disar-
mament talks: Russia, the United
States, Britain, Canada and
France. But it would be open to
other nations which wished to join,
provided they pledged not to fur-
agreement upon zones which
would be open to aerial inspection.--— -------
Any agreement would be in the angrily charged to House speeches
form of a treaty, they said, sub-
ject to ratification by a two thirds
vote of the Senate
The precise details of the Amer-
ican plan were kept secret
THE WEATHER
that Lt Gov. Ben Ramsey, Sen.
Dorsey Hardeman and a group of
senators bad killed the lobby reg-
istration bill. It was one of the
top measures pending as time ran
out for the session.
Daniel Signs Both
Segregation Bills
AUSTIN. May 23 un - Gov.
Daniel today signed both the
segregation bills passed by the
legislature
Six other measures introduced
by a bloc of East Texas segrega-
tionists died in the Senate, one
never received final action in the
House, and one was declared un-
constitutional by the attorney
general.
One bill would give school
boards final authority in shifting
students in and from integrated
schools The other would allow
local option elections on the ques.
tion of integrating schools.
thesunat holding hands while Gov. C-City Man Lost
In Bahamas Saved
~ Collins read his statement.
Many persons hi the room cried
and even one of the Ellis attor-
, neys wiped his eyes with his hand
kerchief
® The blonde, blue-eyed girl who
was the center of the controversy
— wasn’t here She was at home in
IE Miami Beach, where she will grad,
ssopte from the first grade tomnor-
i The Ellises Hled Massachusetts in
4.83 See RILDY, Pg. 4 A. Col. 4
KEY WEST, Fla., May 23 —
A Texan and two other Seabees
lost two days on a fishing trip
turned up safely today at Eluthera
Island in the Bahamas
Construction driver IC Ray Dud-
ley Coles, a Colorado City, Tex.,
native whose home now it at
Norman, Okla, was rescued with
Donald Joseph Barnes of Pleas-
antville, N.J., and Earl Stoughton
Smith of Providence, R.I.
OVER THE TOP AGAIN — Water began running over day the spillway, which whs damaged last week by
the earthen spillway at Lake Abilene again Thursday heavy rains, should be “in fairly good shape" to take
shortly after rains measuring up to 1.60 inches fell in care of the heavy rains on the lake s watershed. (Start
the area. Cl Manager Henry B. Nabers said Thurs photo by Don Hutcheson
UA DMAEWME SENINC*
ARIL ENE AND VICINECY —Seattere
Thursday A.M
P.M.
"tiefr * hours
mperstures same date
, Th" no todny
■ Fin :=: *
Hardeman, across the capitol la
the Senate, mapped back sharply
that Zbranek had urged a bill not
requiring registration of profes-
sional lobbyists. Hardeman told
the Senate that bo would bo glad
to vote for a “good lobby regis-
tration bill" but that present law
was tougher than either the pend-
lag House or Senate versions.
It was boiling hot in both houses
during the long afternoon and
frayed tempers matched the tem-
perature in the closing battles of
the session. Rules were relaxed in
the House to let the members
shuck their coats—even while
making speeches.
The 136-day overtime session,
rocked by scandals and the most
hectic la many years, had already
approved a record-shattering two
billion dollar balanced budget to
LEGISLATURE, Pe. 4A, Col. 2
Winds and Rains
Hit North Texas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thunderstorms and tornadoes
peeled off a cold front and bombed
Texas Thursday.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area to
North Central Texas was swept
twice by pounding thunderstorms.
Other thunderstorms lashed mat-
tered areas.
A twitter slammed into Marshall
in East Texas. Trees, television an-
midnight - black clouds, flooded
many sections of Fort Worth. Hail
and winds of « miles an hour
lashed the city at noon. Fort Worth
received an official rainfall of 3.90
inches Thursday, As much as 4.90
inches were reported la the area.
Autos Submerged
Automobiles were stalled er sub-
merged all over town from flash
floods. A few families were
evacuated, as to Dallas. Minor
tennas and power lines were 4 . _ _____.
knocked down at Mt Pleasant by wind damage woa reported.
ea unconfirmed tornado,
13-mph Winds
Winds of up to 73 miles an hour
crashed into Dallas. The storm
swooped out of a green-black
cloud that draped the city in
blackness to the afternoon. Tre-
mendous sheets of rain — 1.50
inches in half an hour — swept
in with the wind. Damage was
widespread, but minor. Minor
flooding also was widespread and
police said fallen trees, power
lines or debris blocked streets at
Mme 188 potato.
Light hail scattered across the
city. Power and telephones were
knocked out for a time
The afternoon storm followed a
The noon storm followed a near-
cloudburst that fell on southeast
Fort Werth tarty ta the morning.
Tyler reported a black thunder-
storm with hard winds and heavy
rate. Texarkana had treat uproot-
ed and power lines knocked down
from a downpour that stopped
traffic. Some flash flooding was
reported.
Sulphur Springs had two damap-
see Wins, Pe.Ia.caI,
NEWS INDEX
ounce SECTION A
similar cloudburst ta the morning Wemee’s
A thunderstorm also rolled over. Sports
the city Wednesday night. Rain- oil rows
fall from midnight Wednesday Amusements
until 6 p.m. Thursday, totaled 4a3
laches.
Torrential rains, falling from F
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