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FAIR AND
WARMER
78TH YEAR, NO. 183
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BPrmd MORNING
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
Associated Preu (AP)
ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16, 1958 —TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 15c
Howling Ira
Pelts
Dr. Alford
Denies Any
Mob
icia
MOTHER, 4 KIDS J Eggs, Mudballs,
Youth Admits He One Rock Hurled
Conspiracy Killed Family
WASHINGTON (AP)—Dr. Dale; W
denied to a Aous commitMo#: EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) - A He went to the garage. got • 38
day that there was any conspiracy youth admitted Monday night that caliber pistol, loaded it
in his entry as a write-in candi- he killed a mother and her four turned to the kitchen.
date against Rep. Brooks Hays children after he went berserk
(D-Ark) in last month’s elections, even * * “nise the dhi ran
and re-
By JOSEPH E. DYNAN
BAGHDAD (AP)—A brief show-
er of mudballs and eggs and a
sizable rock hurled from howling
mobs of young Iraqis greeted Asst.
Secretary of State William Roun-
tree Monday. None of the missiles
hit him.
"Go home, Rountree,” the mobs
chorused.
over the noise the children were When Mrs. Pendergast entered He arrived by air in late after-
making, police said, she saw the Sun and screamed: noon on his fact-finding Mideast
“I just flipped," said 16-year- "Oh, what are vou going to do mission and landed in a tight
with that gun?” screen of military security pro-
committee: j Eder was arrested Monday Eder started pulling the trigger vided by the Iraqi government.
"You are looking at two individ-night at Mission Beach near San and Mrs. Pendergast slumped to .The mudballs splattered the side
uals who put me in the race as Diego by an 1
a write-in candidate. If there was and a lifeguard, the temple,
any conspiracy involved it took The youth had been the object Diane began screaming and
place in my own home.” of a widespread search since the Eder went to his suitcase, got a
PDIICE LIDL cwwr>c * , L. He said he believed that he had bodies of Mrs." Lois Pendergast, 37, [hunting knife, seized the child and
BRUSH FIRE SWEEPS CALIFORNIA—-A fireman leaps away from a spear of been elected honestly. and her children David, 9, Tom, cut her throat,
flame that swept suddenly toward him as he fought a roaring brush fire in Hot Alford testified after the com- 6 Diane 4 and Ellen 2 were Another child Allen
Springs Canyon near San Juan Capistrano, Calif., Monday. The flames, visible in mittee heard John F. Wells, Little 4.449 2 Another child, Allen, came into
Los Angeles 60 miles away, have burned about 20,000 acres and is still raging. Rock weekly newspaper publisher.
(AP Wirephoto)I charge that Arkansas Gov. Orval
Hays was defeated by Alford.
Pointing to his attractive wife
seated beside him. Alford told the old Carl A Eder,
off-duty policeman the floor Eder shot her through of the embassy limousine on the
the temple. ride in to the embassy from the
Brush Fire Spreads Soviets Find
Close to Capistrano Lost Belgian
ALICE
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.: The worst menace was to the * CENS*
(AP) - Firemen battled in three south, in steep, brush-covered hills
counties Monday night in a des- at the north end 0f Camp Pendle-
— perate try to curb California s ton, a U.S. Marine Corps reserva-
worst brushfire of the year. It has tion. There are no homes in the
already scorched 38.000 acres.
Another onslaught of fierce des-
ert winds—like the ones which sent
the blaze rampaging Sunday—are
expected on Wednesday.
Firemen are fighting to gain
control of the fire before the winds
strike again. "We’re throwing
everything we’ve got into it,” said
one fire official.
A small army of fire fighters
slowed the blaze Monday on two
fronts — near heavily populated
Trabuco Canyon and between the
blaze and,San Juan Capistrano,
five miles away.
area
The fire started in Riverside
County, then spread west into
Orange and south to San Diego
County. It destroyed 15 homes,
most of them weekend cabins and
ranches.
Firemen now have about half
the fire's 70-mile perimeter con-
trolled.
Elmer Osterman, State Forest
Service coordinator, said the blaze
was the worst since 18.500 acres
were burned at Malibu earlier this
month.
DRIVE STILL LAGS
Young Abilenians
Help Goodfellows
Some of Abilenian’s youngest
businessmen joined the Goodfel-
low's crusade for Christmas cheer
Monday with a $10 gift gleaned
from pecan sales.
The four young business ty-
coons, children of Mr. and Mrs.
John DeFord, 3442 S. 10th St . are
Ronald, 11, Jeff. 9. Deborah. 7,
and Mac. 4.
When asked where the pecans
came from Monday afternoon.
Jeff tersely replied, “Out of our
yard.”
"We're out of business now.”
he added and then asked, “Is it
all right to give pecans to the
Goodfellows?” -
Father DeFord, a geologist, sug-
gested the children use some of
their pecan sales profits in a use-
ful way by helping the Good-
fellows.
“We were all for it.” Jeff said,
speaking, for his brothers and
sister.
Another young Abilenian was
"all for" helping the Goodfellows,
too., Jill Blackw elder of 103 Flor-
ida Rd., Dyess AFB, sent a $1
South Jr. High Room
5 Social Studies Classes.
Anonymous"
Nannie Tompkins
Anonymous
Roy and Jane Boatright
Woody, Mark and
Steven Donnell
Kiwanis Kiddyland Park
Anonymous
V. W. Rogers
Rho Phi Chapter of Beta
Sigma Phi
Anonymous ——a----
Anonymous
Loraine J. Dudley
Anonymous
Plowman-Long Electric
Grace Marie Scott
Elmwood Memorial Park
M. M. Thomason
Jeanne Deffebach
Jackson C. Morris
Anonymous
J. E. Stowe
J. J. Tombs 4 Boy
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Skinner
20,00
10.00
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10.00
E. Faubus, Alford and others con-
spired to defeat Hay s.
Alford entered the race a week
before the Nov. 4 election. He de-
feated Hays, who has called him
self a moderate on the segrega-
- .ticn issue, by about 1,200 votes. %
Hays has said he will not con-
Explorers
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -
Four Belgian explorers missing in
the icy Antarctic since their planc
crashed 10 days ago were reported
rescued Tuesday by a Soviet
search plane.
The report came from Moscow
radio. A Tass dispatch telling of
the rescue gave no details. Pre-
viously Moscow radio said the So-
viet pilot Viktor Perov had spotted
footprints and equipment of the
four men.
The Belgian Antarctic Expedi-
tion headquarters said Monday
night the men had walked to with-
found in their home last Friday, the bathroom and was stabbed.
Mrs. Pendergast had been shot, Eder said he covered the three
the children stabbed. [bodies with a bedspread.
Detective Charles Van Natter The two older boys, David and
said Eder gave this account: Tom, came home from school
airport.
At one point Rountree's car was
also hit by a rock. It cracked
but did not break the left side
windshield just in front of the
driver's seat.
At the airport and in front of
the embassy crowds of young men
kept up the chorused shouts. "Go
home, Rountree!"
the
WILLIAM ROUNTREE
. . , mob victim
Viscount could be seen and
They carried and waved ban- heard in the lowering grey clouds.
Eder became irritated because shortly after and David asked:
Diane was jumping up and down. “Where’s mommy?” ners with similar slogans in Eng- Iraqi troops with fixed bayon-
and yelling. He asked her to stop. “She and the kids are gone »lish. But nothing serious happened ets stood alert at the terminal
She wouldn't and he threw her to replied Eder at the airfield arrival, mostly steps. Other detachments of police
, it thanks to a deft maneuver by the and military stood guard at vari-
Ravid wentiinto. the bathroom Iraqi military guards. While the ous other points along the rout •
eream crowd surged forward to the main into town
Eder grabbed his kite agaen-rentrance," Rountree’s car, was” An embassy car with flags fly-
whisked away through a far-side ing waited within the field.
gateway. | As the plane disappeared from
I Iraq has been seething since a sight behind the terminal building
military group destroyed the mon- the crowd shouted “Go home,
archy of King Faisal last July 14 Rountree,” waving banners,
and set up a revolutionary repub- A group of Red Chinese photog-
lic. Besides serious internal strug- raphers stood on the terminal
gles mainly between right and left, steps snapping pictures
external presssures have come The military had imposed strict
from President Nasser s United
Arab Republic, from the Soviet
Communist leadership and satel-
lites, and from the West in its
Iraqi troops with fixed bayon-
the floor, cutting her head
Mrs. Pendergast became angry and saw the blood and screamed.
test the outcome it Nel ***========--== -
ing the House Campaign Expendi- arid told Eder to call a doctor
tures Committee to look into the “I knew something had to hap- He killed David in the front bed-
entire matter, pen,” Eder was quoted as saying, room and Tom in the garage.
Train Hits School
Bus; 20 Kids Hurt _..
F 1 I apparently lost effort to keep
. Iraq in the Baghdad Pact. British
SAGINAW, Mich, (AP) — Wit- tracks and he thought he haditrain hit the front of the bus, lift- influence in Iraq is waning but it
nesses watchM in horror Monday " - - - " 4 *
as a freight train with brakes
grinding bore down on 48 scream-
time to flag down the train. He
A group of Red Chinese photog-
security on all entrances to the
field.
Newsmen and photographers
were not’ allowed beyond the ter-
ing children in a school bus
stalled on a suburban Bridgeport
said he feared the children would
be in greater danger if they got
out onto the tracks.
The engineer of the train,
in 25 miles of a Belgian supply
depot.
Perov radioed that he landed be- crossing. ____ ___________-.______.
About half the youngsters got out to|d police the train was moving
before the 41-car train’s big diesel slowly
engines, slowed to six miles an
side the Belgian party late Mon-
day night and took off less than
an hour later with all four men
aboard.
The acting chief of Belgium's
antarctic station and the camp
doctor accompanied Perov on the
rescue flight but the pilot’s mes-
sage, as quoted by Moscow radio,
did not say whether any of the
men were injured.
A Soviet plans that landed by
the wreck Saturday found a note
saying the four had set out to
hour, smashed into the front of
the bus, knocking it off the tracks.
Some 20 children were injured,
including one who suffered a skull
fracture. Most of the rest had mi-
nor cuts and bruises.
Pat Thayer, 13, who was cut
about the face, said sne was in the
middle of the bus and fell down
when the train struck.
"It was awful,” Pat said. “Some
walk the 80 miles to the Belgian
supply base with only enough food of the kids saw the train coming
to last until Tuesday.
In nearly three days of an air
5.00 search, Soviet pilot Viktor Perov
25.00 found no tracks of the men until
late Monday. Then he spotted the
footprints and later two tents,
sledges and other equipment
The Brussels headquarters an-
nouncement did riot say how the
5.00
250 00
10.00
2.00
10.00
10.00
5.00
15.00
5.00
25.00
5.00
10.00
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men were located. It referred
only to reports received.
The announcement said the So
Charles 0. McKendree, Saginaw,
when he saw the stalled
bus. He immediately applied
emergency brakes, he said, but
the momentum carried the train
into the bus and it stopped six
car lengths past the crossing
Joseph Feh enbach, assistant
fire chief and township trustee
who witnessed the accident from
his home 150 feet away, said “I
never want to see anything like it
ing the two front wheels up and
spinning it.
“It looked to me as though the
bus was going to fall on the chil-
dren outside. I couldn’t watch it
any longer. I ran to the phone and
called the sheriff's department.”
The Chesapeake 4 Ohio train
first was sighted coming around
a curve nearly a mile away before
minal building.
The military' evaded any direct
clash with the crowd at the air-
still prevails in the development .... ..... . ..... .... JuJu,
of Iraq s oil export wealth for Rountree's car was whisked off
practical reasons.)
Long before Rountree's Iraqi
Airways Viscount plane from Cairo
touched down, the area fronting
field with a clever fast decoy.
the field by the back gate while
troops stood guard at the main
gate giving the impression that
Rountree would emerge there.
Mr. and Mrs. Arch D. Batjer 50.00
4.00
Mr. and Mrs R. T. Gregg
The Rev. and Mrs. Ray
contribution with this short note: N. Johnson 4 Son
"This is my allowance to help | Fraser Tire Co.
someone for Christmas." J
Will Rodgers
J. R. Woodward
With such attitudes coming
from young Abilene citizenry, it
seems impossible for the project
to fail. Yet, collections through
Monday find the total more than
55.000 from the goal of $11,092.
G. Ed and Sibyl Johnson
Daniel’s Sunday school class,
Temple Baptist Church
A check from the Key City
Kiwanis Club for $250 helped, but
the goal is still a long way off.
Send Goodfellows contributions
to: Goodfellows, Box 30, Abilene
Latest gifts reported include:
Mr, and Mrs. L. L. Hall 5.00
Anonymous 10.00
Mrs. Josie Gibson 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. Rex G. Stubbs 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Sewell
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry W.
Peterson
5.00
500
Mrs. Ed. L. Hamilton
Jill Blackwelder
Anonymous
Le Anne & Kent Churchill
Anonymous
Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. C. E. Shields
Mr. 4 Mrs V. L. Shiflett
Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. Henry R. Leach
Vera Treat Dobbins
In memory of
Gorden Nichols
Customers of Malcolm
and started screaming The bus
driver ran out the front door and
viet plane had returned to the
Belgians’ King Baudouin base at
Breyd Bay without having found
the missing men.
The men are Capt. Gaston de
Gerlache, Prince Antoine of Lige.
tried to flag down the train.”
Mark Falkenhagen, 11, said:
“Some of the kids got out the
front door. Russ (the driver) told
us to stay in the bus, but we were
‘scared.”
Russell Knisley, 58, driver ol the
bus, told state police only the front
wheels of the bus were on the
Jacqus Loods ad Charles Huls-
hagen. All are members of the
expedition in Antarctica for the
International Geophysical Year. |
NEWS INDEX
SECTION 8
Women's news ...
Oil news ........
Sports
Obituaries
Editorials
Comics
crossing flashers started operat. The crowd across the road in
ing. . I Crewe across road in
Joe Bunka, who has a gasoline
station near the crossing, ran onto
the tracks waving a red rug
Frank Zapowlski, a motorist,
again Phe bus had stalled The said, "I saw the bus stop and
flashers hadn t started blinking, wondered why it wasn't going.
The driver jumped out and ran Then I started yelling to the kills
along the tracks waving his arms to jump. Some opened the emer-
trying to flag the train down gency door in the back. It could
"Then children started coming have been much worse." ,
out the front and back doors. The; Thomas White, suprintendent
of the Bridgeport Community
A AI A Une Schools, shared this view.
AlluC O Hosplide "We feel mighty lucky,” he said
thinking .of a school bus-train col-
lision that killed two Canadian boys
in nearby Ontario last Friday. In
the Ontario collision a passenger
train was traveling at 80 miles an
hour.
To Be Expanded
SAN ANGELO 'AP'--Trustees
of the Baptist Memorial Geri
saw the bus stop and
gency door in the back. It could
atrics Hospital voted Monday to
purchase 50 acres of land sur-
rounding the institution for $65,- schools bought the bus new three
O00 weeks ago. He said the driver
White said
the Bridgeport
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15.51
100.00
100
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500
10.00
1.00
10,00
20.00
3.00
5.00
500
20.00
Jap Scooter Riders .
Must Wear Helmets
TOKYO (AP).—Police have ,n-
structed the 200,000 riders of mo-
torcycles and scooters weaving in
and out of Tokyo's congested
streets to wear helmets
THE WEATHER
Form news
Radio-TV logs
5 The additional property, to be was experienced and had won
- 68 purchased from the Phillip Cor- safety awards.
10 mick estate, will be used to ex- Listed as seriously injured was
11 pand the hospital’s physical plant, Edward Adams, 6, who underwent
15 said Mrs. Louis Gayer, adminis-surgery for a skull fracture Four
15 trator
10
other children hospitalized were
not seriously hurt. About 15 others
were treated for bruises and.cuts.
Girl Dies at 16; Never
a । Bank Shifts From
Weighed Over 20 Pounds Novelty to church
LOUISVILLE, Ky W—Wan-
da Sue Hardy, who never
weighed more than 20 pounds,
is dead at 16.
The teen-ager gave up the
unequal struggle Sunday at
her Vine Grove home
the airport terminal and roads
leading to the airport were lined
with several thousand persons— _. ______
mostly young men, many obvious- tree’s car, flying the American
ly of student age. ,., secretarial flags, was safely off
They waved or held aloft ban- the field at the far end and headed
ners. into town. :
Rountree was met on the field
The crowds swept forward
across the main roadway blocking
the exit. But by this time Roun-
front ol the airport terminal was by U. S. Charge d'Affaires A.
particularly dense. It was also in David Fritzlan and other embassy
an ugly mood, bursting with wild-
eyed excitement from the moment Continued on Pg, 2-A, Cols, 4
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Employes Texas Highway
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Anonymous
Mrs. D. F. Goetz
25.00
Anonymous
Anonymous
Ronald, Jeff, Deborah 4 Mac
DeFord
Previously Ack. a
TOTAL
5.00
6.50
10.00
5.00
10.00
$4,096.50
$5,229.01
U. a. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY (Radius 40
miles) — Fair and warmer Tuesday:
partly cloudy and warmer Wednesday By her side wore
High temperature Tuesday 60 degrees By her side were two
R"eTnesday night M high Wednesday favorite teddy bears and
NORTH central Texas Generally Spot, the little dog that spark-
fair and warmer Tuesday. Mild Wednes-: .
day - ' ed her interest in life in re-.
WEST TEXAS - Generally fair and on month
mild Tuesday and W ednesday cent months,
EAST and SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS When she was 10-months.
Generally fair and warmer Tuesday and when she was XInonts
Wednesday old, Wanda contracted whoop-
TEMPERATURES 1
Mon a.m.
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2:00
9:00:
10:00
Monp.m. ing cough and went blind in
12:00
for 24-hours ending t
same date last year:
Sunset last night: 5:35 p.m.: Sunrise
today: 7:34 a.m.; Sunset tonight: 5:36.
Barometer reading at • p.m. 28.53.
Humidity •< » p.m. 45 per cent.
one eye shortly thereafter By
the time she was 3 Wanda
had stopped gaining weight
Her height reached only 40
inches.
Doctors who tried a sight-
restoration operation in 1953
said: "It's a rare situation.
She could have a congenital
defect in the growth process,
or a blood vessel may have
burst in theMILES, Iowa (AP)—The Miles
burst ID brain when she
'had whooping cough" Savings Bank's yearly Christmas
Despite the odds, Wanda
was cheerful She would ask
questions in a voice with a
baby-like treble and loved to -
play in a big doll house built
in the back yard.
Caring for Wanda
| novelty to patrons for appreciation
of past business is being discon-
tinued
instead, the bank said Monday,
it will donate $1 to the church of
j each customer's choice.
put
the
sustained pressure on
parents. Mrs. Hardy, 39, al-
tended her daughter almost 1
every minute from the time [
she was born until the
mother suffered a nervous
breakdown 10 years ago. She
has been hospitalized since.
Hardy, a civilian employe al
Ft. Knox, sold the family
home to pay debts. He was
talked out of selling another,
heavily mortgaged, by fellow
employes who periodically
took up collections for the
family.
DAYS IB
HALF 'N HALF - AirUne hostess Sally Dorr (TWA)
$ starts gathering a California tan on the right side of
€ her body today, and after it has been examined and
; caUbrated by a dermatologist Sally will hie to Miami
: Beach where she will expose the other half to the
; sunshine of Florida. "It is hoped," said the publicist
; sponsoring the dual project, “that this will settle once
• and for all the conflicting claims of the two 'sunshine
I | states'.” (AP Wirephoto)
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