Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 192, Ed. 1 Monday, August 15, 1955 Page: 1 of 8
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1955
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Price Daily 5c, Sunday 10c
Early
Start
Sears
Construction
On Telephone,
Buildings Set
m TODAY'S
CHUCKLE
The Digger the mouth, the
better it looks shut.
(Copyright General Features Cor-
poration).
Bids on construction of the new I ern Electric Company crew of 11
M '
Southwestern Bell Telephone Com-
pany addition, to make the local
plant cover a quarter of a block
with a two story building, have
been received and are being an-
alyzed for early announcement of
the contract award, Manager
George Beard of the office here
said Monday.
Announcement will be made
from the St. Louis headquarters.
.Work is due to start immediately
•and the job will require 11 months
working time.
Also this week, the new half
million dollar Sears store on East
Broadway is due to start.
Ed Warmack, building of the new
structure, is moving here this
week and electrical transformer
service is already in on Ragland
street for the construction job.
The trailer courts on First
street have been moved to East
Ridge just south of the new school
Inhere.
The telephone building here will
be for dial switching and long dis-
tance as well as location switch-
ing.
Figures are lacking at this time
and details of the big structure
are yet to be announced. However,
including equipment the new tele-
phone center will be well over a
million dollars.
installers has been here for a
month already preparating for the
new installation. They are in
charge of W. R. (Gus) Sommer-
ville who lives here but works on
such projects over the country for
Western Electric.
These men are now making
necessary alterations of present
equipment to be added to.
Eventually, the telephone plant
here will require more employes,
officials said.
Number of patrons in Sweet-
water is at an all-time high mark
with 11 new users of phone serv-
ice in July and eight in June. But
the reason for the major portion
Bascom Giles Trial
For Bribery Geis
Temporary Recess
Armed Convicts Give Up
Hostages To End Revolt
SAN ANTONIO Ml—The bribery
of the big new c.-nter is the loca-
tion here of the coaxial cable
crossings.
Telephone crews have recently
completed a segement of a new!
cable to the Pacific coast from
Abilene to Sweetwater. They are J
now working for another section
of the cable west of here. . ,
The Western Electric techni-; trial ol Bascom Giles was recessed ;
clans are installing carrier equip-! until 2 p.m. today after defense \
ment at this central office to en- ^ attorneys charged unauthorized
able it to transmit more than one i persons vvere with the grand jury j
talking channel on each pair of . , .
^Vjres when it voted his indictment.
New techniques put the channels j The unauthorized persons were
on different frequencies so that identified by the defense as Atty.
they can be carried without inter-
ference.
Reports Of Ku Klux
Klan Revival Probed
LONGVIEW, Tex. (/PI—The state
attorney general says he is check-
ing reports by his investigators
| that an attempt to revive the Ku
| Klux Klan is under way in East
The reason for location of the i Texas, apparently to tight integia-
big plant here is partly geography , t'011 'n public schools.
fcas this is the point where the A. j Atty. Gen. John Ben Shepperd
T. & T. coaxial cable from the Pa- i last
night
John
said his
investigators
have been checking Klan activities
in 22 East Texas counties for more
than a week. He didn't identify
Broadway Actors
Refuse Testimony
cific to the Atlantic cross.
Many have commented that
many things have concentrated to
make Sweetwater a thriving and
growing commercial center. The
mainline railroads of West Texas
cross here because this is the nat-
ural point.
The two principal air routes — j
north-south and east-west — cross j
£ At the telephone center, a West- At House Hearing
NEW YORK AP—fnree? Broad-
way actors refused today to an-
swer questions about possible Com-
munist relationships, at a hearing
i of the House Un-American Activi-
| ties Committee today.
Two of them, Stanley Prager and
John Randolph, cited the First and
! Fifth amendments to the Constitu-
tion. The other, George Tyne, de-
clared the committee "has no right
to invade my inner Beliefs."
The men were the first witnesses
called as the committee launched a
hearing here on alleged Comrau-
m.'t influence in the entertainment
j industry.
Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa),
j chairman of the House subeom-
| mittee on Unamerican Activities,
j said as the hearing opened that it
{ would seek to identify entertain-
| ment figures "who are or were"
I Communists.
| He said the object also is to ex-
j pose those "who are using or did
_ . . use their influence to promote the
Among new Sinclair locations is j 0bjectg ef the Communist party
No. 3 Bishop which is 1320 feet within the entertainment field."
south of British-American Oil Pro- j 'j>he committee, he said, prob-
duction Co. No. 2 Minta Bunton j a^ly will be accused by some wit-
well. . nesses of being "an instrument of
By Allen Baker
No. 1 Bishop Estate well of Sin-
clair north of Sweetwater is re-
ported indicating an exceptionally
strong producer.
Drillers are already at work on
*\No. 2 Bishop with surface casing
" set.
No. 2 Bishop is south of the Brit-
ish-American No. 1 Bunton.
fear to be raised over the heads
of the television and radio net-
works or the Broadway produ-
cers."
Twenty-seven persons have been
subpoenaed.
Referring to previous Red-hunt-
I ing probes in Hollywood, Walter
A. H. Hutchins No. 8 well west j saj[| it had been learned that
of Lake Trammell is being com- j many individuals with knowledge
pleted by Shell Oil Company. j Qf Communist activity returned
This will be the ninth well J from Hollywood to New York,
brought into production on the I That's why the committee de-
lease. No. 9 was drilled before the | titled the inquiry should be "ex-
A well has been staked on the
Kinsey estate southeast of the Mrs.
■•Susie Whitworth No. 4 location re-
'cently staked off by Sinclair.
No. 8 location.
Preparations were being made
for setting casing.
The well is reported to give indi-
cations of making as good a pro-
^ducer as the other eight wells on
the least.
Hutchins' property is just west of
the city property, across the Santa
Fe railroad at Lake Trammell, on
east of the mountains on the east
side of the Evelyn S. Cox ranch.
The recently announced Stout-
Sears No. 1 Test of C. L. Nors-
worthy Jr. and Skelly Oil Co. will
be one location west of Strawn and
(3-8-mile northwest of Odom pro-
duction in the Venamadre (multi-
pay) field, five miles west of Mary-
neal.
it will be drilled to 7.100 feet with
rotary. Elevation is 2,537 feet.
Location, on a 160-acre lease, is
1,980 feet from the north and (>60
feet from the east lines of 153-1A-
H&TC.
Between Blackwell and Bronte,
2-18 miles east of the Bronte El-
,lenburger field, B. A. Duffy will
4lrill a 6,500-foot wildcat test. It
will be the No. 1 Cumbie.
Operations are to begin at once.
Location, on an 80-acre lease, is
1,980 feel from the north and 720
feet from the west lines of 361-1A-
H&TC.
The prospector is 1 5-8 miles
southwest of the Fort Chadbourne
field and 1 1-8 miles west of Stano-
lind No. 2 Norton properties, wild-
cat failure abandoned May 6, 1953.
The Ellenburger was topped at 5,-
•*,43 feet on elevation of 1,934 feet.
tended to the New York area,"
he told a roomful of more than 50
spectators and reporters in the
U.S. Courthouse.
the organizers or say where they
were from.
He said he would remain in the
area to work with local officials
on the problem.
There is a heavy Negro popula-
tion in East Texas and feelings
about segregation are strong. Citi-
zens Councils have been formed
in at least four communities to
fight the Supreme Court order
against segregation in pub-
lic schools. Many school boards
have announced they will not inte-
grate schools this year.
Shepperd sa'id the Citizens Coun-
cils should not be confused with
the Ku Klux Klan "Citizens
groups use legal means," he said.
"The Klan uses fear, hatred and
illegal violence."
The Klan obviously hopes to
exploit resci'.'iiient ii, .,outiH.n
states against the recent U.S.
Supreme Court decision on inte-
gration in the public schools," he
said. "This decision may be op-
posed in an orderly, peaceful and
legal manner, but not by mob rule
and mass violence."
"As far as we can determine,
Klan promoters have been rebuffed
by responsible local citizens and
we hope that no active functioning
group has yet been organized,"
he said.
He said all state agencies are
pledged to fight the Klan and local
prosecutors are on the watch for
any rebirth of it.
Texas laws provide stiff penal-
ties for operations by masked or
hooded organizations.
Gen. John Ben Shepperd, Asst.
Atty. Gen. Bill Alcorn and former
j Asst. Atty. Gen. James Castle-
: berry.
Criminal District Judge M. D.
Jones recessed the trial when de-
: fense atty. Fred Semaan said he
i would call Shepperd as his first
j witness in support of the allega-
tion.
j Semaan said the grand jury
I which indicted Giles has also been
[ subpoenaed.
The former land commissioner's
| trial in criminal district court on
| charges of taking a $30,000 bribe
| to help swing a veterans land deal
'' already had been postponed twice.
There were reports Giles was
examined by two doctors at Austin
I Thursday. This led to speculation
the defense may present a doctor's
1 certificate in asking a delay.
Giles' trial originally was set for
April 11 but he won a routine delay
until May 23. He obtained a second
postponement until Aug. 15 be-
cause he had retained a state leg-
islator—State Rep. Cecil Storey of
Longview—as one of his defense
attorneys.
A mandatory law entitled the
54-year-oid defendant to continu-
ance of his case until 30 days after
the Legislature adjourned.
Giles is free under $2,000 bond
pending an appeal l'rom his Jul"
28 conviction at Austin on a charge
he abetted the theft of $6,800 from
the $100,000,000 veterans land
fund. He was sentenced to three
years in prison.
The former land commissioner
was indicted in Bexar County on
three counts—two that he consent-
ed to accept a $30,000 bribe from
two land promoters, C. V. Wynn
and Arthur McKenzie, both of San
Antonio, and a third count alleging
he accepted the bribe.
Giles, according to the state,
agreed to accept the bribe in re-
turn for helping Wynn and Mc-
Kenzie make a good profit on sale
of 663 acres of Bexar County land
to the Veterans Land Program.
The land was sold to 22 veterans,
10 of them San Antonio policemen
DEATH AND DESOLATION—Pounded to pieces by winds of Hurricane Connie, portion of wreckage
of the three-masted schooner Levin J. Marvel floats in foreground off North Beach, Md., as rescuers
form a human chain across a jetty to search for bodies of passengers and crew. At least 11 persons
drowned, three are missing and 13 persons were rescued when the ship broke up. (NEA Telephoto)
DIANE MOVES NORTHWESTWARD
Wagonseller Rites
South Atlantic Coast JEMS
In Hurricane's Path
Nine Are Killed, 38 Wounded
In "Peaceful" Goan Invasion
BOMBAY, India l/PI—Nine per-
sons were reported killed and some
38 wounded as India's "nonviolent
demonstrators" marched across
the borders into Portuguese ter-
ritory today.
It was part of the long-planned
"peaceful invasion" in the cam-
paign to squeeze the Portuguese
out of their three tiny enclaves on
the Indian subcontinent.
There were conflicting reports of
side of the borders sought to force
them back. Reports flowing into
the Indian side of the border said
the number of dead rose to nine
by late afternoon but that some of
the bodies had to be abandoned in
Portuguese territory.
Some of the Indian demonstra-
tors crossed into Portuguese terri-
tory in rowboats, across the Terek-
hol River. This group succeeded in
reaching Terekhol Fort and the
.. . f ,, . H f | temple and raised the Indian flag,
the size of the nonviolent force ( RlltF p„,.tllolmco „„avftc amnsted
which made the march. Indian
organizers had promised 100.000
marchers. Some reports said 3.000
turned up. Others put the number
at 2,000.
Armed guards on the Portuguese
CARS ARE OVERTURNED
Violence Breaks Out
At Strike-Bound Plant
NEW CASTLE, Ind. i/fl — About
100 to 150 men rushed inside the
gates at Perfect Circle's foundry
here this morning and turned over
four automobiles.
The gate-crashing followed the
heavy stoning of a bus-load of non-
striking workers and a worker's
car outside the gates. Almost all
the windows in the bus were brok-
en and the auto was damaged.
A policeman and several workers
were injured, none seriously. And
nine persons were arrested on
charges of malicious trespass.
Patrolman Fred Sumpter was
treated in a hospital for a foot in-
jury suffered when he was struck
by a large stone. None of the in-
injured workers was hospitalized.
All of those arrested were em-
ployed by Perfect Circle Corp. At
New Castle. However, plant man-
ager Chesley Judy said he saw
cars from Indianapolis and Muncie
and one from Kentucky.
The New Castle plant employs
260 production workers.
Those arrested included Carl
Batchfield, president of the CIO
United Auto Workers local at the
New Castle factory.
Company officials indicated they
would iry to have the union cited
for contempt of a court injunction
against mass picketing.
The few policemen on duty were
unable to do much with the crowd.
Several state police units were at
the scene shortly after the violence
occurred.
The CIO United Auto Workers
struck the piston ring firm's plants
here and at Richmond and Hagers-
town July 25 after negotiations for
a new wage contract broke down.
The Hagerstown and New Castle
plants have been operated on a lim-
ited basis, but the two Richmond
plants were closed for vacations.
Several incidents of violence
have occurred.
The union is asking a 21-cent-an-
hour package increase and the un-
ion shop. The company has offered
11 cents. Present scales range from
$1.28 to "well over $2."
them and firing broke out.
The marchers who made the
actual crossings into Portuguese
territory were accompanied by
thousands of other Indians who
cheered tliem on but stayed safely
on their side of the border.
About 1,000 demon s t r a t o r s
crossed the border of Goa and
another 2,300 were reported *.o
have entered Daman after march-
ing two miles from the Indian town
See NINE Page 8
MIAMI, Fla. (tf) — A hurricane
hunter plane winged toward Di-
ane, fourth tropical storm of the
season, and its report will deter-
mine where along the Georgia and
Carolina coast hurricane warnings
will be hoisted early this afternoon. !
Forecasters had expected to or- ;
der warnings up at 11 a.m. EST, !
but postponed the orders until ear-
ly this afternoon.
"We need one more good fix
on the eye and its movement,"
they explained. "We will have it j
by 2 p.m. or earlier and will issue 1
a special bulletin when it is ob-
tained."
The storm was moving west-
northwestward at 15 miles an hour
and was 550 miles east of St. Au-
gustine, Fla.. at 11 a.m. Its eye
was near latitude 29.7 north, Iongi- I
tude 71.8 west at that time.
"The Georgia, South Carolina
and North Carolina coastlines have
been placed on a hurricane alert.
It is expected hurricane warnings
will be ordered for a portion of this j
area early this afternoon if the
next reconnaissance center fix con-
firms present movement," said the
advisory.
"All interests in the area of
hurricane alert should make pre-
liminary preparations and keep in
close touch with advisories this
afternoon and tonight.
"Tides and winds will begin to
increase tonight. Shipping should
exercise caution in the path of |
this hurricane and all small craft |
between Cape Hatteras, N.C., and .
St. Augustine. Fla.. should remain i
in port."
"We're working to pinpoint the
area of hurricane warnings," said
Cecil Gentry, forecaster in the
storm warning center here.
A hurricane alert already was
out for those two states^ and North
Carolina. Florida was 'out of the
alerted area, but Gentry said north j
easterly ..itorm warnings—less than ,
hurricane force—were a good pos- j
sibility for the northeastern portion
of Florida.
Diane's peak winds are blowing |
at 115 miles an hour. Any wind of
75 miles an hour or higher is of j
hurricane force. Diane has a band !
of hurricane winds 230 miles in
diameter around its center.
The storm moved forward at
8:30 a.m. EST today at a 15-mile
pace with no indication of slowing.
It was centered then a little more
than 600 miles east-southeast of
Jacksonville, and was moving to-
ward the west-northwest.
Drivers Arrested
On DW! Charges
Sweetwater police arrested two
drivers on charges of driving while
under influence of intoxicants over
the weekend.
They were transferred to county
authorities and released under
$500 bond each in county court i
pending hearing.
In police court Monday morning,
three traffic tickets brought pleas
of guilty.
One driver was fined $30 for
"contesting for speed."
Another was fined $5 for running ;
a red traffic signal light A third
driver was fined $3 for failure to
stop for a "stop" sign.
AUSTIN 'M—The men who served
with him in the Legislature joined
today in final honors for State Sen.
Wayne Wagonseller, killed Satur-
day in a Fort Worth traffic acci-
i dent.
i Funeral services were Set for
4:30 p.m. in the Senate chamber
of the Captil for the 34-year-old
Bowie legislator long identified
with the loyalist faction oi the Tex-
as Democratic Party.
Burial was to be in the state
cementery.
Ralph Yarborough, Jie Austin
lawyer who had Wagonseller'.*
help in two unsuccessful cam
paigns for governor was a pall-
bearer.
The others were Sen. Dovl- Will-
is, Fort Worth; Rep. Jamie Clem-
ents, Crockett; Sen. Warren Mc-
Donald and Dr. Howard Bryant,
both of Tyler; G. P Pearson Jr.,
and Clyde Brannon Jr., both of
Houston, and Sen Ray Roberts,
Mcinney.
Yarborough said in a statement
that in Wagonseller's death "Texas
has lost one of its most dedicated
public servants" and "the cause of
good government is hurt, all over
Texas by his loss."
Full military funeral honors
were arranged for the legislator,
who interrupted his public service
career to serve with the 2nd In-
fantry Division in Europe in World
War II.
Wagonseller and Albert Dan Du-
rant, 26, Saginaw, Tex., were
killed Saturday in a 3-vehiele
wreck on Fort Worth's north side.
Wagonseller was enroute home
after putting his wife on a plane
for El Paso where she had planned
to rejoin their two daughters near
Fabens.
DEATH TOTAL IS 18
12 Are Arrested
In Liquor Raid
Twelve persons were arrested in I
a raid by sheriff's officers, State |
Liquor Control Board officers and j
highway patrolmen on a home be-
tween Roseoe and Inadale Satur- J
day night.
A quantity of wine and beer was j
seized and the operator of the!
place was charged in county court j
with possession of intoxicants for
purpose of sale. He was placed I
under $500 bond pending hearing. t
He was also charged with op- J
erating a gambling house and was J
fined $50 and costs In Justice of]
the Peace Leonard Teston's court.
Two Mexicans, three Negro wo-
men and seven Negro men were
fined $15.50 each — 10 for gamb-
ling and two for drunkenness.
A dice table's furnishings includ-
ing the dice and money were
brought in by the officers as evi-
dence.
Four of the defendants remained
in jail Monday pending payment of
fines.
Dr.
Galbrailh Draws
Sentence Of Life
In Wife's Murder
MCALESTER. Okla W
Ben T. Galbraith will be sentenced
tomorrow to life in prison for the
murder of his wife.
The 34-year-old physician, a for-
mer president of the Pittsburg
County Medical Society, slumped
in his chair, white-faced and for-
lorn near midnight Saturday when
the jury returned its verdict. The
panel deliberated only an hour and
fixed the punishment at life im-
prisonment. Sentencing tomorrow
will be a formality for Dist. Judge
W. A. Lackey.
Galbraith was found guilty of
mudiring his 34-year-old wife to
testimony, he bludgeoned her with
a wine bottle and injected mor-
phine into her. Then he burned the
house.
Also found dead in the ruins of
the residence were the bodies of
the Galbraiths' three children,
Frank, 7, Jere, 5. and Sarah Ann,
4. He is charged with their mur-
ers.
As to the other three murders
for which the young heart special-
ist is charged, the state said that
would depend on what the defense
decides to do.
Texas Traffic Claims
13 Lives In Weekend
Washington
Prison Has
2nd Uprising
WALLA WALLA, Wash.
AP — A dozen convicts arm-
ed with home-made knives
grabbed 14 hostages inside
the walls of the tense Wash-
ington State Penitentiary
Sunday night but gave up
early Monday after persua-
sion bv telephone and tear
gas. No one was hurt.
It was the second revolt at the
big prison in six weeks and Ward-
en Lawrence Delmore Jr. said yes-
terday's rebels first tried to free
15 inmate leaders oi the earlier
outbreak.
They failed.
The 15 had been brought back
here only three days ago from iso-
lation at the county jail at Yakima.
In th"'r 2">-hour July 5 insurrec-
tion. they took nine hostages and
won aereement on most demands
for better conditions in the prison
which houses some 1,600 men.
Delmore said the only conces-
sion he nnde to the latest group
of rebels who held out only six
hours was to promise individual
interviews sometime today to
hear their complaints.
There were reports the prison-
ers had presented new demands,
including one that some of them
be transferred to other state in-
stitutions.
Officer Gerald Lehan was cap-
tured by the rebels but released
early, presumably to tell the ward-
en what they wanted.
Officer Merle Johnson was re-
turning a prisoner to his cell.
"I heard him say: 'This is it.
Don't move and do just as I tell
you.' Then I felt a knife in my
ribs," Johnson said. "It looked like
it was almost a foot long. I didn't
argue with him."
Officer Robert Bichsel was
also seized and he and Johnson
locked in a cell together.
Other inmates took more hos-
tages. Hundreds of convicts were
in the corridors going to or from
the dining hall and about 150 were
in the room itself.
Delmore said hostages not locked
in cells were taken to the stew-
ards' office above the dining room.
An attempt to free the 15 re-
turnees from Yakima fizzled when
tear gas dispersed the would-be
liberators and they were cornered
with their hostages in the stew-
ards' room.
The warden said the prison alert
was sounded and riot procedures
put into effect immediately. The
walls and each cellhouse were se-
cured. and the dining area cleared.
Delmore then put in a telephone
call to their stronghold.
"You will be held answerable for
the safety of the hostages," he
told them, "and there is no chance
of your succeeding. Release the
guards and return to your cells."
Then he hung up.
The warden said the convicts
talked among themselves about a
half hour and decided to surren-
der. "agreeing it was foolish to
have the hostages."
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Traffic was the worst killer in
Texas over the weekend, claiming
13 lives and boosting the death to-
tal to 18.
State Sen. Wayne Wagonseller
was one of the traffic fatalities.
He was killed in a three-vehicle
crash at Fort Worth Saturday. Also
killed in the wreck was Albert Dan
Durant, 2t>, of Stonewall, Okla.
One weekend victim was a four-
j year-old Austin girl, Lydia Nunn,
| who was watching a clod fight be-
tween boys Sunday A piece of
thrown glass came her way and
the little girl lifted her arm to
| ward it off. witnesses said. The
j jagged glass hit her in the armpit
j and hospital officials said she died
j of shock and loss of blood.
Yolanda Losa, 18 months old,
was killed Friday night at her j
I home in Abilene when an ice box
fell on top of her
Lasario Sylva, 29, of San Anto-
j nio, was killed by lightning whilt
j on a fishing trip near San Antonio
Saturday.
A car struck and killed William
| Edward Cobb, 38, of Batesville, |
| Friday night as he changed a tire
I on his pickup truck. The accident [
occurred near San Antonio,
i A Bloomington man, Jesus Car-
dova Olguin, 30, was stabbed to
death in a wash room of the Vic-
toria City Hall Saturday.
Wayne Merrill Sanders, 20, of
Troup, and Roy Lee Adams. 22. of
Jacksonville, were killed in a head-
on auto crash northeast of Jack-
sonville Saturday.
David Pearson Tidwell, 17. of De-
Kalb. was killed when the auto in
which he was riding collided with
a horse Saturday.
John F. Hankins, 50, of Glen
Rose, was shot to death at his
home at about midnight Saturday.
Three men were killed in three
traffic accidents on Highway 59
between El Campo and Wharton
during the weekend. Dead were
Jas. Orsak, 20, F.1 Campo: James
Alfred Parker, 44. Corpus Christi;
and Elmer R. Nelson. 41, El
Campo.
Mrs. R. J. Long. 36. and Elmer
Preston Kimble, 55. both ol Beau-
mont, were killed Saturday night
in a two-car collision on U.S. 87
near High Island
Cecil R. Reeves, 56. Denison,
was killed Sunday night when his
truck overturned near Bonham.
Alfred Edwin Gosnell. 52, Den-
ver. was killed Sunday night 24
miles south of Dumas when his
car struck a railroad embankment
at an underpass.
Britain Is Cool
To US Proposal
On Big 4 Parley
LONDON — Britain gave a
cool reception today to an Ameri-
can proposal to publish the formal
record of the recent Big Four sum-
mit talks at Geneva.
The Foreign Office said the pro-
posal was forwarded to Britain
through diplomatic channels and
presumably Russia and France al-
so have been sounded out
A spokesman told questioners at
the daily news conference
"It is correct that the United
States, in accordance with its usual
practice, would like to publish the
record of the Geneva conference.
And we, in accordance with our
usual practice, would prefer not
to."
The spokesman did not rule out
the possibility that Britain might
eventually give its consent. He said
consultations were proceeding be-
tween London and Washington.
It was understood here the U.S.
State Department wants to pub-
lish the Geneva record as soon as
! possible to quash rumors that the
West made secret agreements with
the Russians during the talks
between President Eisenhower,
i Prime Minister Eden. French Pre-
mier Faure, Russian Premier Bul-
! ganin and their aides
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 192, Ed. 1 Monday, August 15, 1955, newspaper, August 15, 1955; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth284516/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Nolan+County%22: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.