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ABILENE, TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1957—TEN PAGES
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RESIDENTS ESCAPE, CREW KILLED — None of the occupants of this de-
molished home were injured, but four crewmen died when a B-25 from Vance
Air Force Base, Enid, Okla., crashed in a residential area adjacent to Palm
Beach, Fla., AFB. The occupants of the home fled just minutes earlier after
they had been alerted that the plane was in trouble. The plane burst into flames
and exploded just before it struck the ground. (NEA photo)
Wreck Kills 2
Near Aspermont
ASPERMONT, Aug. 18 (RNS)-
Two Aspermont men, Fred David
Graham, 53, and James L. Ruth-
erford. 48, were kiUed about 3
a.m. Sunday when their car over-
turned three miles east of town
on U.S. Highway 380.
Investigating officers said they
died almost instantly.
Both men were riding in a late
model sedan. Sheriff Charles L.
Gibson of Stonewall County, said.
He said the eastbound car went
off the highway on the south side,
hit some loose gravel, careened
into a concrete marker and hit
a mesquite stump. Gibson said
the car evidently turned over
four times and landed upright.
Both men were thrown out of the
car. The auto was demolished.
The accident occurred in front
of the Tom Speck home. It was
he who called the sheriff. County
Coroner J. L Chennault and Coun-
ty Health Officer A. R Mancille,
both of Aspermont, also came to
the scene.
Graham, a service station op-
erator, had lived in Stonewall
County 30 years. Rutherford was
a grocer and rancher and had
lived in Aspermont all his life.
Services for Graham will be at
the First Baptist Church at 2 p.m.
permont Cemetery. Pallbearers
are to be Roy Allen, Raymond
Marr, Warren Frazier, Farmer
HU1, Evan Gholston, N. A. Pit-
cock and Mart Blair.
Rutherford funeral rites will be
at the same church at 4 p.m.
with burial in Aspermont Ceme-
tery. A minister had not been
named for the Rutherford funeral
Sunday night.
Springer Funeral Home wiU be
in charge of arrangements for
both services.
Graham was born in Arkansas
July 7. 1904. He is survived by
his wife, Edna, and a daughter.
Mrs. Verda Rae Mitchell, both of
Aspermont; his mother, Mrs. Kat-
ie Graham of Aspermont: three
sisters and a step-daughter, Mrs.
Kenneth Hays of Aspermont.
Rutherford was born in Stone-
wall County June 10. 1909, and
was a member of the Johnson
Chapel Baptist Church.
Monday with Norris Onstead. pas-
tor of the Swenson Baptist Church,
officiating. Burial will be in As- cock.
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teds
Take Over
Tech Directors'
Stand Explained
By Vice Chairman
WHERE IT RAINED
ABILENE
Municipal Airport
ASPERMONT .....
BAIRD ............
BIG SPRING.....
CLAYTONVILLE ..
COAHOMA .........
COLORADO CITY .
HASKELL .........
HERMLEIGH .....
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1.3
Army
Rightist Officers
Being Purged
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 18 — nections in Syria said the charges
Pro-Soviet officers headed by Gen. against the United States fur-
Afif Bizry, a known Communist, nished a blind behind which ths
4 Teen-Age
Newlyweds
Head Home
LAREDO, Tex., Aug. 18-AThe
MIDLAND, Tex., Aug. 18 — general and hundreds of former LORAINE
The vice chairman of the board Texas Tech students in particular, 5 miles north
of directors of Texas Tech col-have expressed their own reac- 12 miles south
lege today said controversial mat- lions in newspapers and letters MARYNEAL
ters concerning the three ousted and through telephone calls and ROBY .........
faculty members of the school personal conversations. I ROTAN ........
were factors in their dismissal.
Shower are in full control of Syria’s army, leftists operated to seize complete
2.90 usually reliable sources said to- army control.
so day. Rightist officers are being! The charges came just after a
" 1.60 purged.
2.00 Premier Sabri Assali’s leftist
1.70 government appeared to have
emerged strengthened from the
Syrian government mission in
. 2.00
20
.40
. 50
crisis that began last week with
• TRITLE
“And they have only served to Ann........
Jim Lindsey, board vice chair- strengthen my own sincere belief
man who presided at the July 13 that what we did was done in the SWEETWATER —
meeting when contracts of Dr. best interests of the college and —
Herbert Geenberg and Dr. Per its future.
Stensland were not renewed, said “We are not ‘out to get' some-
in a statement:one,” Lindsey added. " *
’In the practice of personnel board vesterday voted I
relations, it is difficult, if not im- . The board yesterday voted 81 Dansae
possible, to reach a majority en-to refuse an open hearing to the KdlO65 U
, . dorsement of a controversial three professors. 3 T
four teen-agers who went to a candidate for employment, re- Dr. Abernethy said the “board * SA I |
dance in New Jersey and ended gardless of the reason for the long ago had determined to get / / II
up being married in Mexico today controversy me and had sought and found 1 • I ilVIV
were finally heading homeward. | “It was apparent at the July 13 evidence which it construed as • west
David Bruen and his bride, the meeting of the Texas Tech Board constituting a technical basis for Heavy rain in several West
former Cynthia Roberts, both 17, -----=== etiom " A --ofoeeos ^ Central Texas cities and cooler
took a bus this morning for Hous-
Syrian charges that the United
Trace States plotted 10 overthrow the
b7 leftist regime, these sources said.
—_— President Shukri Kuwatly sided
for the first time with the pro-
Communist clique in the army
and the government by signing a
presidential decree Saturday ap-
pointing Bizry as chief of staff
and army commander in chief and
promoting him from lieutenant
Moscow got pledges of extensive
Soviet economic aid. There were
apparently well-based reports that
the Russians were providing Syria
two submarines and a half-dozen
other small warcraft.
Kuwatly flew suddenly from
Damascus to Cairo today. He held
lengthy talks there with Egypt’s
President Nasser, then went on to
Alexandria for medical treatment
in the Moassat Hospital. The Syri-
an President had been ill and
under treatment in Switzerland
and Germany.
Rumors Kuwatly had resigned
Bizry, 43, is known throughout were denied in Damascus and
colonel to general.
ton on the first leg of their trip
home. Curtis Winston and his
bride, the former Charlotte Cooke,
both 16, were planning to take a
plane to New Jersey.
After attending a dance at
Plcinfield, N. J., the two couples
decided to drive to Maryland and
get married. When they couldn’t
find anyone in Maryland to marry
them, they decided to go to Mexi-
co.
Thursday, after two overnight
stops, they reached the border
here and were married in a Nuevo
Laredo, Mexico, civil court
He is survived by his wife, Ida,
two sons, Jerry of Abilene and
Zeb of Aspermont; a daughter, convertible.
Kathy of Aspermont; two broth-
ers. Tom and Roy of Aspermont
Pallbearers for the Rutherford
service will be Leroy Moyers.
Thurmond Dennis, W. F. Martin.
Their plan to drive back home
was upset yesterday when they
took a sightseeing tour in Nuevo
Laredo and another car smashed
into the side of their German-built
Mexican police said that the
honeymooner’s car ran a stop sigr
and that the car would be held
Roy B. Hart, Mart Blair, Jay
Cox, Torn Hill and N. A. Pit-
until damage claims are settled.
After being treated at a Nuevo
Laredo first aid station, the four
hoofed it back to the U.S. side of
of Directors that the professors its action.” A professor of govern-. over the entire area ...
in question were in the contro- ment. Dr. Abernethy has been niLOY the weather picture Sun-
versial classification.” Lindsey active in the liberal wing of the anoteds "Inumaerihar in disturbed
Democratic party.
day as thunderstorms disturbed
the early morning calm.
"Subsequent events have mag- Board Chairman W. D. Watkins Heaviest rain was in the Big
nified rather than diminished this of Abilene yesterday said the Spring-Coahoma area with 2.70
controversial status. A bearing
would further increase the con-
troversy; therefore, it would de-
feat the purpose for which it might
have been held.”
said.
Lindsey, managing editor of the
Midland Reporter-Telegram, said,
"We have been criticized, praised,
and even threatened because of
our initial action regarding the
three gentlemen. The public in
board "decided not to give the inches falling at Coahoma and
2.15 at Big Spring’s Webb Air
Watkins said the board was Force Base. Hermleigh got 2.00
justified in not granting the three inches, Maryneal (near Sweet-
a hearing because at a private water) received up to 1.70, Clay-
tonville (Fisher County) 1.30,
Aspermont 1.27, and other points
reasons” for the dismissals.
conference with the trio he "asked
each one of them if they wanted
the press and each of them de-
clined.”
All three said in separate state-
ments that this was not true.
the Middle East as the most ex-Cairo.
treme leftist in the Syrian army. One informant said Kuwatly will
Until now, Kuwatly battled even return to Damascus in three days,
his leftist intelligence chief to The suddenness of the trip was
keep the army equally divided be- explained by a report the Presi-
tween leftists and right-wingers dent's doctor in Alexandria was
Now it has been confirmed offi-about to leave on a trip to Europe,
cially that Kuwatly signed the de- Kuwatly’s meeting with Nasser
cree putting Bizry at the head of was called a courtesy gesture, al-
the army, then flew to Egypt on though there were reports in Cairo
what was announced officially as that King Saud of Saudi Arabia
a trip for a medical checkup might join them.
The act raised doubts about Ku- With leftists in charge of the
watly's own future and the danger Syrian army, the purge of rightist
that if he is toppled nothing will fineme kee- - --------
Explosion in Tunnel Traps,
Kills 3 New York Workers
OSWEGO, N Y., Aug 11 — as part of a new city water supply
the border with their personal be-
longings tied up in a blanket.
The youngsters, who telephoned
their families Friday and told
them of the marriages, received
money yesterday for the home
trip.
Abilene Oilman,
GOP Leader, Dies
Death from cancer Sunday end-
ed the career of Ronald R.
Hermes of Abilene, prominent
Republican leader and independ-
ent oilman. He was 42.
In 1952 he was one of the di-
reported lesser amounts.
Rainfall was spotty, Baird, east
of Abilene, received .60 inch while
the Key City recorded only .05 at
Municipal Airport.
In Howard County, where Big
Spring was deluged, the northern
areas received less rain. Veal-
moor getting from .30 to .50 inch,
but most areas got some rain
Crops were in need of rain all
I over Howard County.
Lighter rain fell around Stam-
ford and Haskell. Stamford re-
porting a trace and Haskell a
“shower.”
be left of Syria's professed neu-
trality between East and West.
Informants here with close con-
Automakers
Hold Up on
UAW Reply
officers began in Damascus.
Thirteen officers either resigned
or were fired. A number fled to
Beirut for refuge.
Kuwatly's approval of Bizry as
army chief astonished Beirut.
In his fight to keep a leftist out
of the army leadership. Kuwatly
once turned in his resignation
rather than sign a presidential de-
cree the pro-Communist clique
demanded.
Nasser interceded personally
then and the leftists withdrew
This time, however, Gen. Tewfik
Nizam Eddin was ousted as army
Three construction workers were
killed today in an explosion that
trapped them in a 6,250-foot tun-
nel cut through rock 100 feet be-
neath Lake Ontario.
Two Coast Guardsmen working
system.
One rescue worker was over-
come in the tunnel but was
brought out safely
From 30 to 50 men worked in
the tunnel at a time.
Series' 12th
Shot Fired
rectors of the Texas "Crusade for
Eisenhower.” He had been ill
about 1% years and was dead on
arrival at Hendrick Memorial Hos-
pital at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
Funeral is set Tuesday at 10
a.m. in the Elliott Chapel of
Memories. Officisting will be the
DETROIT, Aug. 18 UH - The chief apparently without a
1 . .three leading automakers withheld struggle.
While Loraine had only .30 inch, comment today on Walter Reu- It was pointed out, however, that
showers up to 1.60 fell five ther’s proposal that they chop 9100 the leftist plot was obviously
miles north and a point 12 miles off the prices of new cars in return hatched while Kuwatly and Nizam
south of Loraine recorded 2 for a promise his United Auto Eddin both were away from Syria.
| inches. , . Workers will modify contract de- Kuwatly was in Germany. Nizam
Showers and a cloud cover mands. Eddin was on the government mis-
dropped temperatures over the Reuther said his proposal, sion to Moscow. Both returned
area. The high was only 83 at
Abilene, and forecasters said it
should rise no higher than 90
Monday, although no more rain
with rescue crews reported at 10 Floodlights were put up outside
p.m., eight hours after the explo- the shaft leading to the tunnel
sion, that they had found the and emergency lighting was set
bodies about 4.000 feet from the up in the tunnel. Rescue workers
tunnel entrance, said they would continue on the
Efforts to bring them out were job throughout the night. If neces-
started immediately. sary. .
The efforts were hampered by The three trapped were John
gas fumes, lack of oxygen and Lagoe. 40, an electrician, Oswego:
water in the tunnel, being built Phil Aylor, 36, Harrisonburg, Va.,
————-----a foreman, and Linwood Hieston,
Crash Kills 3 47. Elkton, Va., construction su-
WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J., Aug perintendent.
18 Vn—A blowout at 50 mph sent A Catholic priest administered
• Public Service bus skidding into last rites of the church at the
a Garden State Parkway abutment tunnel entrance shortly after the
today, killing three persons and accident.
Injuring 31. Two men escaped.
Rev. John Donaho, pastor of St.
Paul Methodist Church, assisted
by Dr. C. A. Long. The body will
be taken to Anadarko, Okla., Mr.
Hermes’ birthplace, for graveside
_____services at S p.m. Burial will be
ATOMIC TEST SITE. Nev.. Aug in the family plot there, under di-
118 (n—A nuclear test weapon
exploded today with an earth-shak-
ing rumble that was felt for
Two men escaped.
hundreds of miles from the deton-
ation point.
The blast, 12th in the current
series being conducted by the
Atomic Energy Commission, was
touched off at 4:30 a.m. after a
frantic scramble by the AEC to
collect test personnel who had
scattered into the night when it
was announced earlier that the
shot had been postponed
Shasta was exploded from atop
a 500-foot tower. Its power was
described as below nominal, which
is less than the explosive force of
20,000 tons of TNT.
rection of Elliotts.
"Ronnie" Hermes had served
as an executive committeeman
for the state Republican party,
named to that post in 1962. During
the Eisenhower campaign he did
much organisational work, county
by county, for Ike. He served as
campaign manager for the presi-
dential candidate in the 17th con-
aimed at "making an effective when the charge* against th*
beginning in stopping and revers United States set off the crisis,
ing the inflationary trend," was
contained in letters sent to the THE MSEATUED
heads of General Motors Corp . | lit WCAILK
Ford Motor Co., and Chrysler _
Corp. Us. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
He said any such bargain be- ANILENE "MMAm"ALu clout,
tween the union and the auto- with mild temperature; Monday.
makers would be self-enforcing on near .--"*:, Nn " Nd Mar
the union because, "It is an old TEXAS _ Partis
maxim in collective bargaining treat unmdetnond.fomaim, "Sell 5
that you cannot wring water from tion. No important temperature changes,
a stone."S
Results of Ike's Aid Fund
Pleas Rest With Johnson
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 uThe and John B Hollister, retiring of any increase the Senate
gressional district
Born April 27. 1915 in Anadarko,
he attended high school there and
then Oklahoma Military Academy
at Claremore.
Oil was the life work of Hermes,
apart from politics, after his
graduation with a BS degree in
geology from Oklahoma Univer-
sity in 1939. He spent five years
with the Army and the Air Corps
during World War II, being dis-
charged as a major in 1945.
Mr. Hermes had been stationed
was foreseen.
Rains, Wind
| Hit S. Texa.
RONALD R. HERMES Man Killed
... Republican leader
, , By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
at Midland airfield, and returned Violent thunderstorms lashed
after service to work for the Mid-parte or South Tents Sunday nient, but to take that fact into account
land office of a Dallas oil firm. Rinisot x sundamaan in our negotiations."
He worked 18 months for the com- Sunasi flooding streets Under his plan, the price cut
pany in Durango, Colo., before A bolt of lightning killed Wal-would become effective when the
coming to Abilene in Sept. 1946 ter A. Smith, 65, at his home in 1958 models go on the market late
From then until 1955, Mr Highlands, near Houston this year. . a
Hermes was geologist and district Torrential rains flooded streets . Reuther earlier said his 1%-mil.
lion member union would seek a
He said: "If price reductions portant "temperature
should have any adverse effect MLide
upon the industry’s financial posi- showers mainly, 5
tion, we would have no alternative TEMPE
Sun. a.m.
# = I
a
No im
12-
manager for the American Trad- at Baytown, near Houston High on member union would seek a ME
ing and Production Corp. . winds overturned three trailer reduced workowessaandimerdtaike .
Ho resigned that year to begin houses, damaged a lumber corn home pay15 Snege rations, 6.00 "tune tment 11 L
independent oil operations in Abi- pany building and smashed plate P Nuacestmmsams **" per
lene. For the past year and a glass windows in an automobile •,__________sent._____________-
half he had been engaged with firm.
the Aerial Exploration Co., with Baytown police said runoff wa- IN SUPERCHARGED SPORTS CAR
offices in the First National Bank ter in some parts of the city was
from doorstep to doorstep
building.
Mr. Hermes married Lorene
Winds of gale force swept into
Karnes County. Measured at up
to 90 miles an hour, they taxed
approves.
Johnson has declined to name
outcome of President Eisenhow- foreign aid director.
er’s appeals for more foreign aid With the importance of the com- ------- — -
money appeared today to rest—men * a many figure he will support. But he
largely with the Democratic mittee’s decision in mind. Sen. H. told the Senate last week he is
largely with the Democratic, „---1 e - m un - going to vote for what be believes
Reading Pleasure For
VACATION
Ford of Oklahoma City in 1940
He belonged to the Abilene Club,
Petroleum Club, Abilene Country
Club, and was a member of St.
Paul Methodist Church.
drainage facilities with up to 3
inches of rain.
Lightning knocked out electrical
leader of the Senate, Lyndon B. Alexander S mith (R-ND, a
Foreign Relations committeeman,
said he hopes Johnson goes as far
as he can toward supporting Ei-
senhower’s plea for what the
President called a minimum
$3,367,000,000 program.
Surviving are the wife, of the power and street lights for 30 min-
home at 1989 Santos St.; two utes in Kenedy, « miles south of
daughters. Peggy Jean, 10, and San Antonio. A bolt of lightning
Judy Ann. 11: the mother, Mrs. *
Leona Hermes of Anadarko one
Fiery Death to Young Auto
Driver Ends 120 mph Race
Johnson of Texas.
Sen. Johnson cast the deciding
vote last year for a bigger mutual
assistance fund than half of his
colleagues on the Senate Appro-
priations Commute* wanted.
Because the foreign aid issue
divides both parties, the Demo-
crotic leader seems again likely
to hold a key vote when the com-
mittee acts on this year’s total.
Few think the Senate itself win
e materially alter the committee's
decision on how much of the House
cut of 809 million dollars should
be restored.
The committee will hear the ad-
ministrations case tomorrow from
Secretary of State Dulles, Adm.
Arthur w Radford, retiring chair-
"I think the outcome depends
almost entirely on what Sen.
Johnson does." Smith said in an
interview. "He has wide Influence
among the Democrats and we
Republicans who are supporting
the President s position have got
to have some Democratic help.”
Smith said that unless the Sen-
ate votes for a figure close to the
Eisenhower minimum. Congress
is likely to wind up approving an
allowance of less than three billion
dollars. The House votod a total
of $2,524,000,000 and probably will
man of the Mat Chiefs of Staff, agree to accept no more than half
to be an adequate program “re-
gardless of whether it meets with
the approval of my colleagues, the
chief executive or even the people
of my state.”
As a clear indication he believes
Eisenhower’s appeal faces rough
going, Johnson told senators they
must “frankly face the fact that
the program has been handled in
such a manner that it has lost a
great deal of public support and
that the very heavy mail on this
question expresses considerable
opposition."
Johnson and other Democrats
have been irritated by Eisenhow-
er’s statement of last week that
be might call a special session of
Congress this fall if he doesn’t get
approximately the amount he
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also struck the Kenedy Cotton
Compress, causing minor damage
to the building's wiring.
Kenedy got 2.1 inches of rain in
an hour. Nearby Karnes City re-
brouter, William H. of Dallas.
Active pallbearers will be J. D.
Tompkins, T. W. Bryant, L. G.
(Dusty) Rhodes. Don Wooten.
George Yantis and Claude Nielon.
Honorary bearers will be Jim-
my Mooren, L. S. Munger, L. A.
Gillis, C. F. Bacon, Joe C. James.
E. V. Sellers. W. D. Watkins,
Max Mossholder. Dr. V. H.
Shoultz, Dr. T. Wade Hedrick,
corded 2.4 inches and Gillett had
2.75 inches.
The blinding rain stalled cars on
the highways near Kenedy for a
time.
The rains were touched off by a
mild cool front which stretched
across the southern end of the
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 18 A — Alin sight." Walthers said
supercharged foreign-made sports The roadster sped through a
car crashed in a blinding shower roadblock set up on the southern
of exploding fireworks near sub-outskirts of Grand Prairie, barely
urban Grand Prairie. Tex, today,'missing the car of Police Chief
killing the 19-year-old driver and Buster Adams.
writing an end to a chase with. Officers said the roadster was
careening sideways crazily after
it burst through the roadblock and
skidded ever a patch of loose
gravel at a curve. The car cata-
pulted twice into the air as it
nosed over islands in a traffic in-
tersection, leaving a trail of twist-
Jack Simmons. Jimmy Taylor, state late Sunday. Earlier inethe
Harry Hobbs, Price Campbell, day, rains up to 3 inches soaked
A. B. Lankford, W. S. Smith, Bob
Rankin, Huylar Lee, Earl Hum-
mel. Art Faustin. all of Abilene,
and Dwight Lovett of Midland,
Luther Belew of Chandler, Aris..
scattered areas of North and West
sheriff's officers which hit speeds
up to 120 m.p.h.
The teen-ager. James Edward
Perry, died instantly.
The sleek, two-seated (Jaguar)
roadster carried Perry, an air-
craft plant worker, to his death
as he was being pursued into
Grand Prairie by sheriff's Dep.
E. R. Walthers.
Texas.
The biggest amount was 3.05
ed parts.
The vehicle came to rest with
its nose against a curb Had it
continued it would have smashed
into a crowded apartment house
inches at Junction.
Other reports included El Paso
.22, San Angelo .53. Salt Flat 1.53,
Fort Worth .08, San Antonio .04,
Jack Parker of Houston. Jack
Frost of San Antonio, Reggie
Baird of Stamford, Dr. Joe Alex Lufkin .05, College Station 1.07,
ander of Spur and Adrian Cahn......
of Austin.
Wink .14, and traces at Austin,
Del Rio and Van Horn.
The crash ignited a box of fire-
works which was in the car. Ex-
ploding firecrackers and sizzling
skyrockets illuminated the coun-
tryside in spectacular colors,
arousing scores of persons.
“I maintained a speed of 100 to wasers am noyeonare
120 miles an hour — being just car for about six miles before i
barely able to keep his taillights cracked up.
so feet away.
Investigators said it covered 585
feet from the point where Perry
applied the brakes.
Waithers said he pursued the
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