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MILD
77th YEAR, NO. 191
AY. (AY Y A _Ac 3 L
The Abilene Reporter 3200s MORNING
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
Associated Press (AP) ABILENE, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1957—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
Wrecks Kill 3, Hurt
15 in Abilene Region
■ Truck Burns After Wreck; p 1
1 2 Men Taken to Hospital dhtiA
Three persons had died and 15
others were injured in traffic
smashups in the Abilene area by
10:30 p.m. Christmas night as the
holiday death toll mounted across
the state and nation.
The dead are:
Teresa Daline Nash, 6, daughter
of Bill Nash of Stamford and Mrs.
Donella Goodman of Lovington,
N. M., and stepdaughter of Ed-
ward Goodman of Abilene ’ad-
dress not known Wednesday
night).
Willis Gibson, 18-year-old Negro
youth and son of Mr. and Mrs.
Willie Gibson of Lamesa.
Mrs. Thomas Ramby, 31, of
Borger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Crenshaw of 1325 S. 28th
St., Abilene, and wife of Hutchin-
son County Deputy Sheirff Thom-
as Ramby, formerly of Rotan.
Tlie Nash girl and Gibson were
fatally injured in a two-car head-
on collision 18 miles west of La-
mesa Wendesday afternoon.
Three persons are in Lamesa
General Hospital as a result of
the wreck. They are Joel Elvis
COMMON SCENE ON CHRISTMAS DAY—Half the fun of having children at
Christmas time is seeing them receive their gifts. Then comes the other half...
helping them enjoy the toys. In this case, poppa George Mulkey of 1601 Briar-
wood St. finishes rigging the basket for the basketball received by son Robert,
10, far right. Richard. 8, who got a football, holds the ladder for his dad and
Mike, second from left, sports a new gun and holster set. (Staff Photo by Bill
Nelsen)
DURING HOLIDAYS
Violence in Texas
Kills at Least 15
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the car in which he was riding
Violence took the lives of at struck a bridge in Del Rio.
Navy Quits
Search for
17 Missing
least 15 persons in Texas during Willis Gibson, 18. Lamesa, and
the Christmas holiday period that Teresa Daline Nash, 6. daughter
began Tuesday night at 6 p.m
See Related Stories. Pg. 11-B
of Mrs. Donella Goodman, Lov ing-
ton. N.M. were killed in a 2-car
Nine persons were killed in traf-
fic mishaps and six others died collision near Lamesa Wednesday.
in other violence ”—- * 1— -—■ — *-
Bennie Chatham, about 78, Mc-
Santa Makes
Safe Flight
Despite Rain
Santa got a little soggy on his
flight from the North Pole through
Abilene, which reported .37 of an
inch since Tuesday, and to other
parts of the state with up to 2
inches Christmas day. But reports
indicate Santa made the trip with-
out mishap.
Reindeer sleigh flying conditions
improved during the day as a
trough of lov pressure sent in dry
northwesterly winds that cleared
out the overcast. Fair and mild
conditions which prevailed through
most of Wednesday are due to
continue through Friday in the
Abilene area.
Other rainfall totals for Tues
day and early Wednesday include
Lawn .50. Buffalo Gap .70. Ovalo
BULLETIN
A blazing truck smashup
10 miles southeast of Abilene
on State Highway 36 after
midnight Wednesday, sent
two men to Hendrick Memo-
rin) Hospital with serious
burns.
The pair were identified as
George Evans, n 16-year-old
Negro, and Duane Caddell,
24-year-old white man. Their
hometowns were not avail-
able.
The truck they were in was
headed toward Abilene about
12:30 a.m. when it hit a car
crete bridge railing on the
right side of the road, clip-
ping three concrete posts,
veered to the left side and
smashed a fourth post and
then burst into flames. High-
way Patrolman Royce High-
tower said.
Their empty flat bed truck
burned for about a half hour.
One unit from the Abilene
Fire Department put out the
fire. The injured men were
brought to Abilene in n Kiker-
Warren ambulance.
en from the Spur Hospital to a
Quanah Hospital early Wednes-
day. 1
Their car collided with the side 1
of the Ramby car. Highway Pa- 1
trolman Stuart Eriksen said. 1
Mrs. Ramby , the former Mollie 1
Juanita Crenshaw, was born Nov. 1
28, 1926. The couple had lived in 1
Borger for the last 10 years.
Funeral will be Thursday at 3 |
p.m. at the First Baptist Church 1
in Rotan, with the Rev. Winfred 1
Moore, pastor of the Borger First 1
Baptist Church, officiating. Burial 1
will be in Rotan Cemetery under 1
direction of Weathersbee Funeral 1
Home. .
Survivors in addition to those al. 1
ready named are two sisters.' •
Mrs. W. M White of Brownwood
and Mrs. Donald McDorman of
Coleman.
Pallbearers will be Clayton J
Weems of Rotan. Bill White of 3
Brownwood, Donald McDorman of a
See WRECKS, Pg. 4-A, Col. 1 "
MAN OF THE YEAR
AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
HONOLULU, Dec. 5 W — The .70, Tuscola .60, Bradshaw .75.
Navy tonight abandoned
search for more survivors of the
the Colorado City .17, Hodges .70,
and Big Spring .14.
.. . The mercury climbed to an "un-
crash Monday of a radar alert Christmaslike" 62 Wednesday with
plane with 17 members of the 23 a low of 40 expected Thursday
man crew still unaccounted for night and 60 Friday.
Two Hamilton men were killed Gregor, was killed Wednesday in
by a car in Central Texas, and a headon collision near Bren
the wife of a deputy sheriff died ham.
In a two-car collision in the Pan- Mrs. Doris Laurene, Deeson, 26. The Navy, Air Force and sur- Some parts of far West Texas
handle Both accidents occurred Houston, was killed in a headon face craft intensively searched got light snow flurries, but in Abi.
Christ mas Eve night collision four miles west of Beau-lace craft 1 intensiv ely searched lene and the surrounding area
The Department of Public Safe-mont Wednesday. Jesse Lloyd the area 25 miles north of Oahuine whitest thing was santa s
ty’s “Operation Death Watch " Brown, Houston, who was driving for two days and two nights.
which began at 12:01 am Dec. the second car was injured. Four Rescued
21. added up 70 fatalities by Lilliam Mae Foster, 23. and Four crew members of the big at Municipal Airport, the last Yule
Christmas Day. These included 34 Jose Pacheco. 19. were fatally
traffic deaths. 21 suicides and stabbed in separate incidents in
homicides, and 15 from miscella. Joe Sanchez, 2. died Wednes-Survivors said most of the crew acecoras going DECK 10 1911 snow
neous violence day of injuries suffered when he were trapped in the 7-million- no other Christmas day snows. A
The Associated Press count, fell under a bus in San Antonio dollar aircraft turn inch-------red “
from 6 p.m. Dec.,24 to midnight Tuesday. I Cmdr Guy Howard, one of the
Dec. 25. showed these deaths |--four survivors, said in a hospital
interview earlier today that all
heard. Fact is, according to the
Abilene Weather Bureau Station
Super-Constellation were rescued snow was a four-incher on Christ-
- affd two bodies were recov ered. mas Day 'n 1939. ,
Records going back to 1911 show
two inch snow was reported on
Dec 24, 1926 in Abilene, however.
Mrs. Juanita Ramby, 36, of Bor-
ger. wife of Hutchinson County Dricon Thark
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Ramby, I CHELR
was killed in a two-car collision - , p
five miles east of Spur in the Pan-urriES Band
handle • -
Norman Roberson, 43. and Will DlnnL. Eeunn
ham Stevens, 26, both of Hamil-Fldliiinig CSCapC
ton, were killed by a car at Ham-
ilton as they changed a flat Offi - WALLA WALLA, wasn., Dec. za Dietrich
cers said the car was driven by ^ State prison security check-sealth and * Headquarters
Clancy Baleoust of San Antonio ing crew surprised a band of con- a Pearl Harbor
He and a passenger, Clyde Hack victs in an unfinished escape tun . .. ,
of Fort Worth, were reported crit- nel today and one guard was All hope of finding additional
tally injured. kicked and beaten in a wild melee survivors has been abandoned.
Mrs. Ida Clara Short, 77. was that followed he said.
shot to death in her Jasper home The guards routed the convicts. Navy WIves
Tuesday. A verdict of accidental some of whom were brandishing There was no lifting of the anx
death was returned knives at the height of the under iety of the Navy wives.
Calvin Parker, 72. a retired;groun(j fight, and later seven Seven of the missing fliers
minister, was found shot to death prisoners were locked up as being aboard the 712-million-dollar plane
in Marlin Tuesday. Peace Justice members of the escape gang No
Watson Deere returned a verdict names were released.
of suicide. W arden Bob Rhay, who declined
Mrs Hubert Eugene Ashley, 30, to give the name of the guard
was shot to death in her Dallas injured in the fray, said there
home Wednesday Police ques-were 10 or 12 convicts involved in
tioned a 50-year-old man the escape plan. Guards were at-
Benolia Miller. 47, Temple, was tempting to identify the compan-
fatally beaten at her home near ions of the seven apprehended
Temple Wednesday. A 43-year-old Rhay said the security checking
man was charged with murder, crew was on a routine search
Robert Ray Roberts. 21. Mon-when it discovered the 60-foot
roe. La., airman stationed at tunnel.
Laughlin Air Force Base, Del Rio, In the tunnel, the guards found
was killed Tuesday night when 10 or 12 convicts working When _ .
accosted, the convicts attacked a Christmas Eve explosion in a
fireworks store brought death to
four engines of the plane stopped
at the same time Howard, 41,
i Oakland, Calif., said: "I really
don't know yet what happened.
.. . She just stopped flying at
Some ran still fell in extreme
East Texas late Wednesday
Benavides, in South Texas, re-
corded two inches of rain. More
than one inch fell in the Fort
1,500 feet."
The search was called off at
sundown by Rear Adm. Neil K
W ALLA W ALLA. Wash. Dec 25 Dietrich, commander of the
Worth-Dallas area
Rainfall was general from the
Red River valley to the Mexican
border.
In far West Texas and the Pan
handle, temperatures dropped be-
low freezing early Wednesday. A
few flurries of snow fell Tuesday
and Tuesday night at Tulia in the
South Plains and Dalhart in the
upper Panhandle
have 16 children who waited with
their mothers for word from res-
cue craft.
At the Barbers Point Naval Air
Station, the plane's home base,
Navy wives helped comfort their
tragedy-stricken sisters during the
long ordeal.
crew was on a routine search
Fireworks Store
Explodes, Kills 15
BUENOS AIRES. Dec 25 V -
THE WEATHER
re DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ARILENE AND VICINITY (radius 40
miles) - Fair and mild Thursday and
Friday; high Thursday 65, low Thursday
night 40, high Friday 60
NORTW < ENTRAL TEXAS - Clear to
partly cloudy and mild Thursday. Con
siderable cloudiness Friday turning cooler
extreme northwest portion late Friday
WEST TEXAS Clear to partly cloudy
Thursday and Friday cooler Panhandle,
South Plains and upper Pecos Valley
Friday
EAST TEXAS - Clear to partly cloudy
and mild Thursday Mostly cloudy Fri-
day with scattered showers mainly north
portion
Nash 5, brother of the dead girl
this condition is critical); their
mother, Mrs. Donella Goodman:
and Melvin Edwards, 22. Lamesa
Negro. Both of them are in seri-
ous condition.
loss Khrushchev
AP Man of Year
By TOM HENSHAW
Associated Press Writer
Eisenhower was the winner in any person has swept two cate-
four of the last five years. gorics in the year-ending survey.
The girl was killed instantly and
Gibson died about an hour and a
half later in the hospital. Highway ____
patrolman Martin Exon of Semi- carved his way to the top spot Stalin intraparty struggle for Rus- the editors' big man in science,
nole said the Goodman car was in the Communist world, has sian power. : *........
Nikita S. Khrushchev, the now The Russian party boss attained German - born Wernher von
grim, now amiable, now reckless preeminence in the Red world by Braun, the acknowledged leader
peasant who appears to have apparently winning the long post- of American space thought, was
east bound and the car carrying
Edwards and Gibson was headed
west on Highway 180 when the
wreck happened. The Goodman
car landed upside down in the
northside borrow ditch and the
other car upright in the south-
side ditch.
Funeral arrangements for the
victims were incomplete at La
mesa.
Mrs., Ramby died instantly
about 7 p.m. Tuesday in a two-
car crash five miles southeast of
in the Communist world, has sian power, despite the fact that the United
claimed another distinction. | Chief concern for the West is States trails the Communists in
Spur on State Highway 70.
Her husband and their two chil- TOLL HITS 190
dren. Tommye Sue, 16. and Jim- -----------------------------------------
my. 5, are in Callan Hospital
in Rotan as a result of injuries
received in the mishap. Their con-
ditions are listed as "good."
The Borger family was travel-
ing southeast on the way to Ro-
tan and Abilene for a Christmas
visit when their car was in col-
lision with another auto.
Both persons in the other car
are in critical condition. They
are Eddie Fletcher, 49, and Jeri-
ene Fletcher, 27, both of Mona-
hans. The Negro couple was tak.
SOUTH CENTR AL TEXAS - Clear to
partly cloudy and mild Thursday Con
siderable cloudiness Friday with scattered ,
showers T RERPEEXYOREs
Wed a.m.
47 .... 1:00...-,.
200
Wed. p.m.
MRS THOMAS RAMBY
. . . killed in wreck
the security force, with several of
the prisoners wielding knives.
The convicts all, broke away
Pay o year while Holiday Rates throwing away the knives as they day, celebration a
ore good. by moil or by cor- ran. In a shakedown of the wing Fireworks furnish the tradition- . Hish and. low
tier delivery. after the fight, seven prisoners al method of celebrating Christ- High and
See your agent, carrier, or mail who had dirt under their finger mas in Argentina and firecrack- Isunserr A “
80% 30" Ableheor*** nails and in their hair were ers boomed in all corners of the "En
SAVE ON YOUR
REPORTER NEWS .
15 persons in downtown Buenos
Aires and clouded the city’s holi.
ran. In a shakedown of the wing Fireworks furnish the tradition-
--- 41- ,:-u. —---—a--, al method of celebrating Christ-
after the fight, seven prisoners
locked up.
4 eity.
1957
1956
1955
1954
1953
. 1:0 -
Tish and low temperatures for 24
urs to 9:30 p.m 62 and 46 degrees
High and low temperatures same date
--.• 31 degrees. 1061
.ht 5:40: sunrise today VOI
sunset tonight 5:40
AMI HAS # M"8-1950
1952
He is the first leader of an Iron Khrushchev's unstable personali- space progress.
Curtain country to be named ty. He can tell jokes or make The Russian scientists who sue-
Man of the Year in the annual threats, with or without a vodka cessfully launched the two earth
Associated Press poll of news- glass in his hand, satellites that dealt a tremen-
paper, radio and television edi- Some have expressed fears that dous propaganda blow to Western
tors. the emergence of Khrushchev as science trailed von Braun by only
The editors, reflecting the con- top dog in the Kremlin is the a handful of votes.
cern of the West over Khrush- greatest threat to world peace Geroge Meany, the embattled
chey’s rise to power, gave the since Adolph Hitler ruled Ger- president of the AFL-CIO, was
burly, balding Kremlin leader many named man of the year in labor
nearly four times as many votes The AP editors also named for his fight against union corrup-
as his nearest rival, President Ei-Khrushchev man of the year in tion.
senhower. foreign affairs, the first time that Teamster Union President-elect
James Hoffa and retiring Presi-
dent Dave Beck, both rocked by
Traffic Deaths
Mount in U.S.
charges of corruption, were a
close second and third respective-
ly.
For the seventh time since the
poll was started, - Henry Ford II,
chief of the automobile company
that bears his family name, was
chosen man of the year in the in-
dustrial field
Neil MacElroy, the Proctor &
Traffic .....................190 the holiday period there were 19 Gamble ^^ became deca:
Fire ......................26 fewer fatalities than at the same second to Ford ’
Miscellaneous ..............19 time last year ,
:. 933 .Another man who maintained
Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ciated “.commute a * hour na domination in his field was evan-
The nation's holiday traffic toll tional survey on the nonholiday A crusade for souls in New
reached 190 early today, exceed-period from Dec. 10 through 11.- Maidson S Souls
ing the preholiday estimate by It showed 84 traffic deaths, 15 in York’s Maidson Square
the National Safety Council.
Garden,
. which provided headlines through
fires and 27 miscellaneous acci-most of the summer made him
Fires killed 26. and 19 persons dents such as shootings, falls, air- the top man in religion for the
lost their lives in miscellaneous plane mishaps, for an over all to straight year
type accidents for an over all to-tal of 126 inn the light . -_____
tal of 235. . _ The record traffic toll for a one literature and entertainment, last
Before the holiday started, the dav Christmas holiday was 253 in year’s winners were overthrown
council estimated 180 persons 1946. The low since World War II by wide margins
would die in traffic accidents he- was 179 in 1947. The record low for Lew Burdette of the Milwaukee
tween 6 p.m. (local time’ Tuesday any one-day holiday since World Braves, the first pitcher in 37
and midnight Wednesday. War II was 81 on Memorial Day years to start and win three
Unseasonably mild weather in in 1931.
most parts of the country brought Traffic fatalities reaches! a stag
auto travel above normal. Else-gering 706 for the four-day Christ
where, particularly in the Mid mas period last year-the dead-
west, North and Great Plains re-liest on record for a holiday span,
gions, a new storm spread rain
and snow Many motorists who
started out in fairly good weather
faced heavy homeward travel un-
der trying conditions.
Ned Dearborn, president of the
National Safety Council, warned
"With the homeward rush yet to
come, the estimate of 180 traffic
deaths will be exceeded unless
drivers practice good will toward
men behind the wheel " , .
He said the toll appeared to be comit?"
running tragically heavy but Comics
noted that in the first it hours of Radio, TV logs
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Obituaries
Food news
Sports
Oil
SECTION B
Women’s news
Farm news
Amusements ....
5
*
14, 15
16
3
4
S
World Series games, was handily
the sportsman of the year.
It was the third year in a row
that World Series heroes caught
the editors' eyes. Don Larsen of
the New York Yankees and John-
ny Podres of the Booklyn Dodger*
won in ‘56 and ‘55 respectively.
A good distance behind Burdette
was Ted Williams, the Boston Red
7
1
Sox' hardy perennial, who became
the oldest man ever to win a
major league batting title at the
ripe baseball age of 38.
A new figure of some contro-
versy supplanted Elvis Presley as
the top choice in entertainment—
movie producer Mike Todd.
Todd's production "Around the
See MAN, Pg. 4-A, Col. 1
AP Personality Poll Winners Since 1950
Man of the’ Foreign
Year Affairs Science Industry
Khrushchev Khrushchev Von Braun Ford
Eisenhower Nasser
Eisenhower
Mendes-
France
Eisenhower
Eisenhower
MacArthur
MacArthur
Dulles
Dulles
Dulles
Mossadgeh
Dulles
Atcheson
Salk
Salk
Salk
Ford
Ford
Labor
Meany
Meany
Reuther
Robt. Young Reuther
Religion
Graham
Graham
Graham
Graham
Sports
Burdette
Larsen
Podres
Bannister
Enter-
tainment Literature
Todd Cozzens
Presley Churchill
Kelly Wouk
Gobel Hem way
Salk &
Ford
Durkin
Alfred Kinsey
Waksman C. E. Wilson Murray
Max Thieler C. E Wilson Murray
Sheen
Sheen
None
Philip Hendi C. E. Wilson Reuther None
Stengel Godfrey Churchill
Marciano Marilyn Hem way
Monroe
Durocher Lanza Thor
Hyerdahl
Jolson Faulkner
None
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