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The Abilene Report
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"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
78TH YEAR, NO. 19
Associated Press (AP)
ABILENE, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1958 —TWENTY PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
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Former RAF Flie
Admit:
Let’
Russians Use
As Propaganda
LONDON (AP) — A discharged down Whales to get the state-
veteran of the Royal Air Force ment. then reported it to police
admitted Saturday he wrote the Police interviewed Whales and'
mysterious "W" letter to the So- then announced The matter has
viet Embassy threatening to drop to be investigated properly and
an A-bomb off England the time to do that is obviously
He acknowledged the RAF had later today when all facts will be
dropped him for mental in- available. The man is not in cus-
stability tody.”
Before his admissions, even the The U.S State Department in
Russians gave indications that Washington had called the letter
they believed the letter was a a forgery emanating from Soviet
hoax. sources for propaganda purposes.
Propaganda Victory The British said the Soviet Em-
it figured briefly as an inter-bassy itself had said the letter
national incident giving the Rus-probably was nothing more than
sians a tactical propaganda vic-a hoax
tory. Bur for hours the story had the
The former airman said the So- effect of a Sov iet hint that an un-
viet Embassy, by omissions, had balanced U.S. airman could drop
altered the meaning of his letter an atomic bomb over Britain. The
-He said he wrote it to call at U.S. Air Force quickly pointed out
tention to his grievances against there are safeguards against any
the RAF. But, he complained the such thing
Russians in making the letter pub- .Statement Released
lic Wednesday night left out large This was Whales' signed state-
portions relating to those griev- ment
THREE MISS BRECKENRIDGES — These three girls won Miss Breckenridge
ances. „ . . “I, William Stanley Whales, ag-j
As the Russians put it out, it ricultural worker, 34, of Lower
might have been a letter from a Brook St., Ipswich, now state that
U.S. pilot threatening to use the on June 28 I posted to Mr. (Ja.
A-bomb against England. , . cob) Malik (Soviet ambassador!
| The Soviet Embassy refused to at the Soviet Embassy in London
comment on the development , the letter relating to dropping an
A voice on the embassy s tele- atom bomb in the North Seal
titles at the sixth annual Fourth of July celebration there Friday. Left to
right are Elaine Boyd. 14. Junior Miss Breckenridge, Wanda Tarver, 16. Miss. javuns ...
Breckenridge, and Linda Summers, 8, Little Miss Breckenridge. (Staff Photo by phone said: There is no one here which I have
PA Nalcare,’ at this time of night who can deal!..
Bill Nelsen.) ... . with matters of this sort.
Buckaroo Twirler Wears
No. 13, Wins Miss Breck
By GAYLE MeNUTT the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. on the basis of charm, personality.
By GAYLE MeNUTT
Reporter-News Staff Writer and Mrs James Ellis, and will be
BRECKENRIDGE - Wanda Jo a BHS senior next year
Tarver, wearing lucky number 13. Third was Marion Elich, 17.
was named Miss Breckenridge daughter of Mr and Mrs. B M
Friday night as nearly 3,000 peo-Elich.
ple lined the side of a hill over Friday
looking Arthur Miller swimming mers
pool to watch the peak of action
poise and appearance Each ap-
peared on stage twice, once in a
party dress and the second time
in a bathing suit. ,
northeast of London
Midway rides, booths and con He signed a statement in the
afternoon Linda Sum- cession stands kept holiday-mind.
Little Miss ed youngsters and oldsters alike
. was ( Miss throwing hoops, darts and base
Brecken- BreckeAridge. from a field of balls, walking the cakewalk, nd-
eight candidates between the ages ing the kiddie-ride and many oth-
she is the daughter « Nr ^ "Eiline gov c lon "Nd er activities on the midway
and Mrs Roy H Tarver She is title of Junior Miss Breckenridge A swimming meet at Arthur
16 years old from a field of 13 between the Miller swimming pool opened the
The dav started with thunder ages of 12 and 15. Pat Nowlin was contest the day at 1:30 p.m.
showers but by early afternoon runnerup. Winners were picked from both
the clouds were gone the sun The beauty contestants were boys and girls, ages 6 through
beamed down and people came in judged by five out-of-town judges „ „ .
droves to the old -fashioned coun- _________;________________________} Following the swimming meet,
the 13 Miss Breckenridge contest-
ants made their preliminary ap-
pearance before the judges in
at the sixth annual
ridge Fourth of July celebration
ty fair-style festivities.
Robert B House! executive sec-
retary of the Breckenridge Cham-
her of Commerce said it was one
of the most successful Fourth cele-
bration on record
Miss Tarver will he a junior
twirler in the Breckenridge High
School Buckaroo band this fall
Karen Ellis was runner-up. She is
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Amusements
Sports
SECTION ■
Women’s newt
Editorials ...
Comics ...
Radio, TV logs
Farm, Market news
GLOBEMASTER CRASHES
seen in the press
"I was anxious to draw atten-
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LOOK MA. NO H ANDS — Charlie Henderson, a Throckmorton cowboy, comeg
in for a nose dive landing in Friday afternoon s performance of the Texas Cow-
boy Reunion in Stamford Henderson was but one of many cowpokes who found
producer Goat Mayo's new bucking stock straight from the wilds of South Da-
kota too tough to handle. (Staff photo by Don Hutcheson).
8,000 See Great Final
Show at Stam ford Rodeo
The suddenness of the new de-tion to complaints I have about Ron COOKE 1------------------------------
velopment caught the Russians off the treatment which was meted B BOB COK Editor See story on early show
out to me when I was serving in Reporter-News F arm Edlor c
balaine endbassy Russians in Lon. the RAF from which 1 was medi STAMFORD - Attendance atpage 3 A. other events S-B.----
don were casaint to shv awar cally discharged on Aug. 21. 1957, the fourth and final show of the first time a new string of South
from the letter as probable after 15 years’ service. 28th annual Texas Cowboy Dakota horses in the saddle brone
hoax. Moscow radio was warming “I admit that in this letter to Reunion Rodeo eased up towards event. They were plenty rough,
up to it as a not verdele for ante Mr. Malik, 1 posed as a pilot of the 8,000 mark Friday night and but four of the six riders in the
American propaganda The radio the U.S. Air Force spectators were rewarded by skill- final stayed aboard
was unaware at the time of the ’’This seemed to be the best performs ne » ropers,
Whales admission '------Gatina •>------ t-t-ers and rodeo stock
Ex-Flier Identified
The ex-flier was identified as
William Stanley Whales, 34. a
farm worker in Ipswich, 68 miles
Excellent rides were made by
way of getting the press to take’s "I HEX * 'Sloan Thompson Breckenridge,
an interest in my case" A new TRC calf roping record on a horse named "Done Gone'';
The Soviet Embassy in releas-was set in the night show when Don Forbis, Matador, on "Bilko":
ing the text of the letter said it Bud Ott of Midland roped and Rusty Welch of Beniamin on "Re-
was signed with the initial "W" tied bis animal in 102 seconds II cession” and J It Edwards of
Whales' statement said he bettered the 10.6 mark set by Vernon on “Prison Bar "
signed the letter W Whales." Lester Forrest, the lefthanded in the final of the open cutting
He said: "I obtained the name rancher from Maryneal at the aft horse contest, Poco Stampede
of the Soviet ambassador and the ernoon shows owned by Mrs. G. F Rhodes of
Soviet Embassy address from the Goat Mayo, Petrolia, supplier Abilene and ridden by Jack New-
The correspondent had tracked Ipswich public library. I of the stock, presented for the ton, had hard luck in his final
presence of three witnesses for
the Ipswich correspondent of the
British Press Assn.
round and let his third calf get
back into the herd He scored
only 136 points — the lowest mark
Flenniken of Floyada, repre-
senting the Bingham Ranch, with
a time of 21.1.
Third place went to Pat Mc-
Daniel, representing the Abilene
Chamber of Commerce, with a
time of 21.4.
The champion double mugger
was Howard Handley of Electra.
Handley s unofficial time on
three steers was 64.2, and his time
Friday night was 24.9.
J. Oxford of Haskell made the
best time in the Friday n :ht
show, posting an 18.6. It made
his unofficial total on three steers
a 66.7 which would give him sec-
ond place in the event.
Five saddles were presented at
the last performance Friday night
They went to winners of the
cowgirl sponsors’ race, the cut-
ting horse contest, calf roping
event, double mugging event, and
the old-timers roping contest
he has made in recent contests the old-timers roping contest
The champion of the open cut' The winners in the bareback
brone riding event were (1) John
street clothes for a style show to
% be judged on modeling personali-
... J The Elks Lodge held contests
.. 4 for boys in the younger age group.
■ .■ 5 From a field of about to contest-
••■ • ants, Rex Carey won the sack
_____race, and John Hagler and Jimmy
Overton combined their efforts to
ting event was Poco Mona owned
by the Pinehurst Stables of Hous-
ton and ridden by John f arter
Two horses, Guthrie Ann, own-
ed and ridden by W F. Martin
of Hamlin, and Joe's Last, owned
and ridden by James Kinney of
Carlsbad, N M, tied lor second
B F Yeates, Plainview, was
Farris of Iowa Park. (2) Skip
Wyatt of Spur, and (3) Bobby
Wedeking of Stamford.
Saddle brone riding finalists
were (D) Grant Speed of San An-
gelo. (2) White Welch of Guthrie,
and (3) J. R. Edwards of Vernon.
‘Copter Rescues
Three on Plane
win the three - legged race
John Hagler then gobbled bis
way through a fourth of a melon
to win the watermelon eating con-
test over about 2S other boys.
| Junes Teen-Time dance revue
followed, with winners named in
four divisions, including jitterbug-
foxtrot, specialty number and the
| best all-around dancers.
The Lions Club then fed an es.
HONOLULU (AP)—A huge Air the huge plane out of Travis AFB, timated 1,000 or more persons all
Force Globemaster went down in Calif. . with nine men aboard, the pancakes bacon and coffee
the mid-Pacific early Friday and since the pilot reported one of his they could eat at 50 cents per per-
about 12 hours later three mem four engines was running out of son
bers of the nine-man crew were control, a bad nil leak had devel- The Breckenridge Community
rescued by a Navy helicopter oped and he was heading for
The whirlybird picked them up Johnston Island
at 122 pm Hawaii time-6 !2 The USS Boxer, an antisub-
pm EST—1*5 miles north north marine warfare carrier, was in
east of Johnston Island the vicinity The carrier dis
Theater gave two performances
of “Rebel’s Rev enge.” an oldfash-
ioned melodrama, including piano
player, in which the crowds hissed
and boned the villain and cheer-
ed the hero Spectators also threw
popcorn and peanuts
Ball Roller Rink sponsored boys
dropped a raft and the men the area and girls skating contest at the
climbed aboard, apparently in The $1.700,000 Globemaster, as roller rink adjacent to the park.
crowned champion roper in calf Cue : Mau
roping with a total time of 41.7 ties in Mexico
seconds on three calves His time Flooded by Rains
Friday night in the finals was
14 seconds flat MEXICO CITY (AP)—Torren-
Second place went to Tommy tial rains flooded parts of several
Flenniken of Floydada current Mexican cities Thursday night and
national intercollegiate rodeo Friday Two deaths have been re-
champion, with a total time of ported
44 seconds on three calves A dispatch from Aguascalientes
I Third place went to Kitey Miller this afternoon said two bodies had
of Fluvanna with a total of 45.7 been found in ruins of 50 collapsed
seconds on three calves dwellings It said it is feared
In the cowgirl sponsor event, more bodies will he recovered
Mike Reid of Tulia, representing More than five inches of rain
the Tulia Chamber of Commerce, fell there last night in two hours,
was the champion She received disrupting the city water service
one of the five saddles awarded and communications
to champions Low parts of six suburbs of this
Second in barrel riding was Sue federal capital also were flooded,
DRUG ENDS BLINDNESS
Grandma Can See
The men had been spoiled by an patched four helicopters in coo-
Air Force rescue plane clinging to tinuous daylight search
a box in the water The plane Surface craft, too, conv erged on
Dianne First Time
good condition a high as a four-story building, was
Moments later a helicopter from based at Travis Air Force Base
the aircraft carrier Boxer picked near San Francisco
up the men by cable hoists and With a crew of seven, and two
took them to the ship military couriers it was on a car ______________
The search plane also spotted a go run to Tokvo its last reported ‘ DANIMPE IMMERCE
Mae West life jacket near the position was 640 miles southwest EFPAuD R
three men but it was not immedi- of Honolulu and about 200 miles chance for, late afternoon showers Satur-
ately clear whether it contained a northeast of Johnston Sunday with increasing nances for
• . Tratic AFP showers High both days 95 low Saturday
fourth survivor. Travis AFE said names of those night 75
Debris was sighted in the area aboard would be announcedas FAL am
believed to be parts of the lost nean * relatives bad been Mi :
piane. . ._. The pilot reported his No Sen 1
The C124 doubledech Air Force
eargo plane crashed into the sea
about 200 miles northeast of
WEATHER
TEMPERATURES
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Fri p.m.
Mrs A C Kyle has lived In prove the day after the shot.
a world of increasing darkness She’s had two shots now and
since 1952 she can read headlines, get-well
She's been able to hug her three cards, recognize people and see
year old granddaughter, but she’s colors on cars from her window
never seen the child But Mrs. al Hendrick Memorial Hospital
Kyle will be able to see her And she’s anxious to see little
granddaughter for the first time Dianne, when her parents, Mr.
in two weeks and Mrs J. C. Black of Jal, N M .
Her eyesight has come back in can bring her to Abilene The
what Mr Kyle rails "a miracle." Blacks she is the former Betty
Her physician says it happened Jo Kyle) also have a son, 5.
this way , who Mrs Kyle has seen faintly.
Mrs Kyle 63, began to lose and a baby boy born Sunday.
her eyesig! t In 1952 due to a long The physician said the drug
standing diabetic condition Her used was fairly new but nothing
vision became increasingly worse spectacular He emphasised that
On June 23 she was given the Mrs Kyle's case is an isolated
The physician said the drug
DOES HE HAVE ANY TEETH? asked 2-year-old David Driskill, the littlest on-
looker The dummy platform mounted horse is a fugitive from a 19th-century
harness makers' shop He was hitched to a buggy as an attraction Friday at the
Coleman Centennial opening day Saddles and harnesses once were displayed
on his frame. Owned by Bennett Nance, the horse now belongs to a breed as
gine running out of control He 3
was unable to feather the propel 75
ler A propeller is feathered to a
anuige its patch so that it turns £ 12:00 _. ,
idly High and low for Munos, ending • scarce as cigar-store Indians The youngsters are, front left, Gary Driskill, 5 and
_____________-___. The last word from the Globe " Wien" " same date last year brother David; back, Linda Bassett, 9, and Patricia Hamilton, 8. They are the
seeded immediately to the scene master came in a radic message Isunset last might 7:50, p.m.: Sunrise children, respectively, of Mr and Mrs. Jimmy Driskill, Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
of the life ro’ sighting at 1:33 am Hawaii Standard sunset tomient j Steffy and Mr. and Mrs Dudley Hamilton, all of Coleman For other centennial
Nothing had been heard from Time — 7:33 a.m., EDT. IETA W 24 I pictures and stories, see pages 1-B and 8-B. (Staff photo by Don Hutcheson).
Johnston Island while on a flight change its pitch
from Honolulu to Wake Island Change 5 P
The aircraft carrier Boxer pro-
ifirst shot of medicine containing one
a fairly new drug Primary func- But the Kylea, who live at 573
tion of the drug was to slow down E N 21st. aren’t interested in
the aging process in blood vessels the medical explanations Mrs.
in the heart brain and hotly Kyle can see again, and two eye
But as a side effect of the drug specialists had told her nothing
an artery was sortened and pres could be done
To us.”’ Mr. Kyle said, “It’s
sure released on the optic nerves.
Mrs Kyle’s vision began to im-just a miracle."
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