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The Orange Leader
VOL. LVI—NUMBER 218 Member Associated Press
ORANGE/TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1959 12 Pages
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5 Cents LATEST EDITION
BIT OF HISTORY
Fermar Lanier Edhar A. F.
Bane Sr. taiay ahsarvae Ms
Nth year la Orange. Ha recalls
thoae yean ani prelects his
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Papa I.
Probers To Head for Laos Quickly
Congress Adjournment Retreats
WASHINGTON (API - Com-
promise and controversy pre>-
vailed today as a harassed and
bickering Congress anailed its way
toward a seemingly-ever-retreat-
ine adjournment date.
Inter-party compromises prom-
ising progress on such issues as
housing were countered by contro- fixed the early part of next week
versy threatening delays on such
matters as civil rights and en-
forcement of the Senate's rules.
Senate Democratic Leader Lyn-
don B. Johnson of Texas, who has
been consistently bearish on plans
of other leaders to quit Saturday, be asked to address it..
as a more likely date.
He said that, if Congress still is
in session, it will be up to the
State Department to decide wheth-
er Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush-
chev, who arrives Tuesday, should
Quarter-Million Dollars
Trotti & Thomson Bids Low
On City Sewer, Water Projects
By BOB AXELSON [water main from John and 14th
Orange city commissioners l&st to the downtown area and across
night awarded a $263,275 contract [Adams Bavou to the west,
to Trotti k Thomson of Beaomont' This cost will be paid from the
op a low bid for municipal sewer ‘ *
and water system improvements.
mpfo
The motion was made by Com
wiissioner James D, Gilliam, sec-
onded by Councilman R. N. (Bob)
Whitehead and passed unanimous-
ly, Work includes a 15-inch sani
tary sewer from 9th and Cherry to
11th and Burton and a 16-inch
Senate Okays
Judge Fisher
For U.S. Post
” WASHINGTON (AP)-The Sen-
•ate unanimously confirmed today
President Eisenhower's nomina-
tion of Joe J. Fisher to be federal
judge for the eastern district of
Texas.
He succeeds the late Judge La-
mar Cecil.
Fisher is a native of San Au-
gustine and has lived in Jasper
TCVnany years. He practiced law
in fasper from 1946 to 1957 before
becoming state judge of the First
District Court.
From 1939 to 194$ he was dis-
trict attorney at San Augustine
Action in Fisher’s appointment
was lightning fast in comparison to
a delay of months which has
blocked the filling of some 19 other
federal judge vacancies through-
out the United States. In Washing-
ton circles it was known that Seir.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Senate majori-
ty leader, was personally inter-
ested in Fisher's appointment.
Fisher has often substituted in
128th District Court here in the
absence of Judge Homer E. Steph-
enson. The popular Jasper resi-
balance of a remaining $600,060
revenue bond issue and supple-
mented in part from water and
sewer operating funds. One of the
problems In doubt is the type of
crossing to be made for the water
line over Adams Bayou.
For the present. State Highway
Department officials have vetoed
a proposal to connect the steel
coated pipe to the south side of
the bridge. They stated that it was
against departmental policy to
fasten any pipeline to a bridge.
An alternate proposal is a pier-
type structure crossing to be
placed some 14 feet south of the
bridge. Costs, however, are con-
sidered excessive. N. G.” Hargis,
project engineer with Freese,
Nichols, Turner and Colley, munici-
pal consulting engineers, will con-
fer with highway officials at Aus-
tin to see if an exception can be
made.
In other business, the commis-
sion awarded a conditional con-
tract to Motorola Communications
dent is well known in local legal fense Adminstration authorization
circles and has numerous friends
here in Orange.
He is expected to move to Beau-
mont from Jasper as soon as a
suitable home can be found. The
court convenes at Beaumont.
J. CULLEN BROWNING
Elected C. of C. President
City Chamber
Picks Editor
As President
J. Cullen Browning, editor of The
and Electronics Inc. of Beaumont. Leader, was elected as president
The price is $8,079 for the pur-
chase of transmitter - receivers,
base station and remote control
units. Bulk of the equipment will
go for a new high frequency radio
communications system for the
police department. Some equio-
ment Also is earmarked for the
fire department.
Excluded from the purchase
were transistor radios for police
motorcycles which would have
kicked the cost up to $13,792. Bulk
of the police motorcycles are not
radio-equipped.
Purchase of Motorola equipment
was based on a recommendation
from City Mgr. Lee S. Vickers
that it was the lowest qualified
bid. The award was made on a
conditional basis pending Federal
Communications Commission ap-
proval on modification of a police
radio license to use the new high
frequency and Federal Civil De-
FCDA is expected to pay one-half
the total cost.
In other business, city commis-
sioners discussed the assessment
paving of Sunset drive from 18th
(See CONTRACTS, Page 8)
Master Plan for City Approved
By Council; Other Steps Taken
In rapid-fire fatotion last night, be combined with that of an identi-
Orange city commissioners passed
- a resolution on a city master plan,
eliminated a captain of detective
position and passed severs^ ordi-
nances.
ficathm officer.
It is currently held by Detective
Charlie Tyson, suspended from the
police force for three months end-
ing Oct, 1. The suspension was
The resolution requested help ordered by the Orange Civil Serv-
from the State Heakh Department ice Commission on the grounds
to aid in development of a com-[that Tyson was intoxicated while
prehensive community plan for the.off duty.
City of Orange. | ^ motion to eliminate the classi-
This agency, acting as the state.fication was made by Commission-
pis nn.ng unit, arranges for a fed-jer Lawrence Smaihall, seconded
eral grant from the Housing k by Councilman James D. Gilliam
of the Orange Chamber of Com'
merce to succeed Nea! Miller Jr.
in a meeting today at Little Mexi-
co Restaurant.
Board members also named
three other officers. They were
Winston Lewis replacing W. G.
(Jerry) Thdmell as first vice pres-
ident; Tony Dal Sasso, second vice
president; and Ken Lakin, treasur-
er succeeding W. A. Wilson.
At the same time, eight new di
rectors serving three-vear terms
came on the board. They include
Bill Butler, B. A. Gunn, Bill
Stringer, Cecil Beeson, Lee Roy
Boehme, Paul Slaton, l>kin and
Dal Sasso. „•
Directors whose terms have now
expired are Miller, J. H. David
Jr., Thad Decker, Claude Brook-
shire. Lawrence Smaihall and
C. H. Benckenstein Jr.
The new 46-year-old president
was born in Beckville, Tex., t]|d
began a business career at 16 as a
private secretary. He later went
into the accounting field and was
in the mercantile business at
Franks ton, Tex., for about a year.
Browning became the state’s
youngest newspaper editor at 20
when he purchased the weekly
Cushing Newa. He remained in the
weekly publication field until 1942
when he came to Orange to work
in the accounting department of
the Consolidated Steel Corp. Ship-
building Division.
In 1943. he became assistant resi-
dent manager and in 1944 manager
of the Pine Grove war housing
project. Browning was later ap-
pointed resident manager of the
2,542-unit Riverside Addition proj-
ect. He has served as editor of
The Leader since May, 1946.
Browning was elected to the
chamber board of directors last
January to fill an unexpired term.
He has served since October. 1958,
(See CHAMBER. Page 8)
BULLETIN
Home Finance Agency for Texas
cities under 30.000 population. A
federal grant of $15,750 will be
sought and the cky will put up
$17,290 to cover the balance.
A comprehensive master plan
will be developed by Koch, Fowler
k Grafe.
The classification of detective
captain in the police department
was eliminated through an emer-
gency ordinance effective on first
reading. The pay for such a posi-
tion was cut out of the proposed
1959-60 budget. Detective duties will
and passed unanimously.
Commissioners also passed unan-
imously an emergency ordinance
more strictly defining trespassing
as a means of insuring rigorous
(See COUNCIL, Page 8)
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif. (AP) - Combat-
ready Air Force troops today
successfully fired their first Atlas
ing Intercontinental missile, having
triple the range of previous
American combat missiles.
Trio Asks Damages for Injuries
Suffered While Building Plant
Three civil suits for more than
a third of a million dollars in dam-
ages have been filed in 128th Dis-
trict Court here against the Fire-
stone Tin k Rubber Go.
The plaintiffs, all of them resi-
dents of Orange County, seek a
total of $351,144.80 in damagfs for
“severe and permanent injuries”
allegedly suffered at the Firestone
plant on Chemical Row in 1957
white employed by the Catalytic
Construction Co.
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otmoox—ctoods. to portly cloudy Hysmith of Mauriceville, who seeks
tt>reach totoerree with wisely Matured S19Q 400; Clifford Ardoia Of 1210
htiummur. m *n*uao~ '* Da Pont Dr., seeking $812HJ0.
Thomas C Ssndenof Mlhir-
psd-
on or
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p>. Ben* or Be h*tu;
At the time, the plaintiffs’ em-
ployer, Catalytic Construction Co.,
was engaged in building the local
Firestone plant under contract
The plaintiffs contend they were
permanently injured when they
were exposed to “toxic chemical
gas," which entered thoir lungs
and damaged the muscles, tissues,
ligaments, sinews, nerves, tendons
and bony structures of their eyes.
Sanders’ petition said “a catalyst
was released into a vat containing
cupreous ammonia acetate, there-
by releasing gaseous ammonia Into
the area in which Sanders was
working.
Senders’ wit sets filed act his be-
half by Atty. Malcolm E- Dorman
of the Orange legal firm of Hust-
rmrre k Harris.
Representing the other two plain-
etni—rntm*. tjt *».«*“ *•** BfjJ; j April 4 and Hysmith on or aboutjtiifs - Hysmith and Ardoin — is
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■AUy. Joe H. Tonahill of Jasper.
“We always invite anybody they
ask us to,’’ he said. Previously
GOP leaders had said President
Eisenhower is keeping hands off
this touchy situation.
Proceeding cautiously around a
series of rules roadblocks set up
by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore), the
Senate moved toward action toda'
on a compromise housing bill
Democrats were assured Presi-
dent Eisenhower would sign it de-
spite vetoes of two previous meas-
ures in this field.
Congress Tuesday whipped
through a $1,185,309,093 public
works appropriation bill in a form
the President still doesn't like. Re-
publicans said it may be vetoed
as its predecessor was.
The House passed it 302-93. The
Senate followed suit 73-15. Both
were well over the two-thirds
margin needed to override a veto.
Eisenhower vetoed the previous
bill because it contained money
for 67 unbudgeted w/iter projects.
The new version retained all these
projects, but the over-ail total was
held $97,166 below the President's
budget because of cuts in amounts
for the various projects.
Morse continued to slow down
Senate action by frequent objec-
tions' to unanimous c6nsent re-
quests. He told his colleagues
Tuesday that the last big money
bill of the session—the foreign aid
measure—-is not going to be con-
sidered until Saturday if he can
prevent earlier action.
Hie Senate remained in session
late Tuesday night to receive the
bill formally from its Appropria-
tions Committee and thus make
consideration this week possible
under Senate rules. A required
three-day waiting period normally
is waived by unanimous consent,
but Morse has blocked such ac-
tions during the week.
The Senate committee restored
only about 95 million dollars of
the cuts voted by the House,
which voted 390 millions less than
the total authorized in an earlier
bill.
The committee also attached to
the bill by a 13-7 vote a rider to
extend the life of the Civil Rights
Commission for another two
years.
Morse termed that action “noth-
ing but window dressing," and
advocates of strong civil rights
legislation were inclined to agree.
But Republican Leader Everett
M. Dirksen of Illinois said the ex-
tension is about all that can be
expected in this field during this
session. He said he will .press for
a pledge from Johnson to bring
up a stronger bill next January.
Johnson has served notice he
expects the Senate to act on a
water pollution bill Eisenhower
doesn’t want. The House passed
a measure for a 100-miilkm-dollar
program despite Eisenhower's ob-
jections. A Senate committee cut
this figure to 80 million.
The Senate disposed of one of
the remaining major pieces of
legislation Tuesday night in pass-
ing, 86-1, the bill permitting high-
er interest rates on aeries E and
H savings bonds.
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WHO DONE IT?—A large motor vehicle early
today smacked Into the front walkway canqpy at
Bancroft School slanting. Jour-inch pipes that
supported it and tearingthe walkway from the
building. Damage was estimated roughly at $2,500
by Principal Tom B. Martin, who along with
V. L. Beathard, sixth grade teacher, found the
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damage upon arriving at school at 8:30 a.m.
Principal Martin (left) and Board President
Leon Bingham survey the damage. Bingham said
the whole walkway would have to be replaced.
The area was roped off and barricaded. Some
damage also was done to the roof of the mala
building.
By MILTON BESSER
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (AP)
—The U. N.’s new four-nation
fact-finding group may get a
team off to Laos by week s end
to investigate reported invasions
from neighboring Red North Viet
Nam.
The subcommittee, set up by the
Security Council over bitter Soviet
protests, met Tuesday with Coun-
cil President Egldlo Ortona of
Italy, to make plans for the mis-
sion.
Ortona said the four member*
—Italy, Argentina, Japan and Tu-
nisia—agreed it was vital to carry
out its task as quickly ss possible.
The West proposed the Inquiry
group as a compromise the So-
weto might not oppose too strong-
ly. Laos had eg) led for (L- N.
troops to meet the allegetr Red
aggression in the same way thnt
the Western powers rallied to the
defense of South Korea against
Communist North Korea in 1950.
The Western plan ran into im-
mediate opposition from North
Viet Nam which declared the set-
ting up of the fact finding group
was illegal.
The Hanoi government also
charged that the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization (SF.ATO)
headed by the United States, plans
direct intervention in Laos.
The Red regime said the only
way to ease tension in th# South-
east Asia kingdom waa to enforce
the Geneva agreement of 1954 that
ended the Indochinese war and
to restore the international con-
trol commission it provided.
A spokesman in Hanoi denied
again that North Vietnamese
troops are fighting in Laos.
Ortona and representatives of
the other member nations of the
subcommittee — Koto Mataudaira
of Japan, Mario Amadeo of Ar-
gentina and Monghi Slim of Tu-
nisia—set up (his timetable;
Asked their heme governments
to name within 34 hour* person-
nel to make the first-hand in-
quiry.
Suggested that men be picked
(See LAOS, Page 8)
Dead wood Escapes Big Forest Fire
DEADWOOD, S. D. (AP) - A
forest fire first circled and then
skipped across this historic gold
rush town Tuesday, taking a few
homes and businesses, before
roaring unchecked into unpopulat-
ed timber area to the southeast.
Asst. State Forester Tom Bor-
den said he had heard no con-
firmed reports of serious injuries
or deaths.
The same -shifting winds that
turned the fire into town helped
District Scout Officials Approve
Plan for Census of Elderly Here
The Orange District Bov Scout;be made. Otherwise it will be ncc-
roundtable last night approved par-] essary for it to be started from
ticipation by scouts in a census of the housing office.
elderly residents of Orange and
scheduled the count for Saturday
of next week.
About 150 scouts from troops in
Orange will make the survey under
the direction of their scoutmasters
and unit leaders. The project will
be coordinated by the district ex
ecutive
committee headed by Walter
House.
The program was approved by
members of the roundtable follow-
ing a presentation by House during
a meeting last night at the First services of the city’s elderl
Methodist Church in Orange. dents.
A meeting of scoutmasters and The housing authority survey will
leaders was called for 6:30 p m on (See SCOOTS, Page 8)
Thursday of next week to explain
the procedure and organize for the
census. This session will be held
at the administrative offices of the
Orange Housing Authority, 101 Pine
Grove Ave.
House said today that if enough
of the scoutmasters and leaders
are present for that session the
survey will be started from the 54
sections of the city in which it wilt
The scouts are to call at each
residence in Orange south of the
freeway and aak whether or not
anyone 60 yeara of age or over
lives there. They will n o t list
names of any of these people.
Later on, representatives of the
housing authority wiU visit each
Roy Rutherford, and a of the homes where there is a per-
son in the 86-and-over age group
with a questionnaire. Information
obtained in that phase of the sur-
vey will be used in determining
the needs for bousing ah)( other
resi-
minimize damage by lofting the
blazes into tree tops and produc-
ing a scattered pattern of fires.
The flank of the fire was halted
three-fourths of a mile from near-
by Lead, home of the famous
Homes take gold mine.
Deadwood’s 3,500 residents were
evacuated but some were trickling
back early today.
Some of Lead’s 8,400 people also
were evacuated.
“I wouldn’t have given a
plugged nickel for the whole town-
of Deadwood at four o’clock,"
said Rapid City Journal reporter
Ken Jumper.
Jumper, who had fought fires
with tne Navy in Florida, said “it
was the damndest thing I’ve ever
seen.
'“The hillsides looked like they
had been raked by tracer bullets
with Christmas tree lighting »s
far as you could see,” he said.
Late Tuesday night, an eatimat
The fire burned an estimated
dozen homes and two pole-treat-
ing plants.
A second fire burned wild in
timber southeast of the hamlet of
Nemo. It apparently did not
threaten populated areaa.
The two blazes had consumed
an estimated 16,000 acres. The
Deadwood burn had a 20-mile per-
imeter late Tuesday night.
Temperatures of 100 plus <jg-
grecs, a long siege of drought snd
humidity at a near record low of
five per cent set the stage for a
bad burn.
Then, reportedly, a man'a trash
fire got loose at a home for the
aged aouthwest of here.
A squall line moved In fast,
whipping the fire point Into town.
The freshening winds lifted the
flames into the tall pines and sent
them cresting from ridge to ridge.
Remaining on the fireline,
grimy and fatigued, were miners,
severs! National Guard units,
merchants, residents and Forest
Service personnel____
Second Road to GSU Plant Site
Sought so Work Can Be Started
By JACK MORGAN .it probably will be January before
Orange County Commissioner* the state awards s contract and
Court today was asked to provide work begin* on rebuilding and ex-
a second hard-surface access road tending Farm to Market 408 to the
proposed GSU plant,
to market road so fsr
__ ___ , assured hard-surface
Bridge City. I access to snd from the site.
The request came from T. O. Earlier, it was thought the state
(Doc) Chariton, district superin- project would be completed by the
tendent for Gulf States, who »p- time actual construction work on
Fire crews, aided by winds that peared before the Court at its
dropped from 59 m.p.h. to about
15 m.p.h. during the, night, bat-
tled to contain the blazes against
the wind* to freshen to 25 to 30
m.p.h. during the day.
Borden said that even if the
firebreak doesn't hold, the blaze
will be easier to combat when it
moves out into the foothills.
weekly meeting.
Chariton specifically
Turner Road, s dirt
asked that
rood shout
the plant begira by the first of
next January,
As it now appears, Charlton ex*
plained to the Court, GSU will he-
7,000 feet long, be surfaced with a jjin construction work about (be
sand shell base in the immediate same time the state- expect* lo
future, I start work on FM 408
According to Tommy McNa Charlton said this, of course,
mars, resident engineer here for would pose s major problem
the Texas Highway Department,
If You Live Among Dogs .. .
Pudgy Khrushchev Bui Idozed His Way to Top
By V
Associated
V1LUAM t. RYAN [Stalin,
in
getting construction workers to
and from the plant site.
Commissioner* Court took the'
request under advisement At least
two of the countv commissioners
indicated thev would be wflline to
'go along with the request if Gulf
State* itaelf pay* half of the cost.
Countv Engr. J. G. (Gus) Povle
estimate* the coat of surfacing
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RMM,
. . „, «... rj imi nf Turner road would be about $10,.
n. suspecting Mmebody gMzation was P"** 988 excluding labor
to rub him out in his dc-jthOUMad» of Turn,r ro,d runi north,and
Frets News Analyst planned to rub him out in his de- thousands or it* more oengerous
"If you live among dogs,” say* dining year*, cooked up a fames- members, fre* 10
r.jtic taw
The Turner road runs north , *nd
weight fr9m Bessie Heights toad to
Nikita' Sergeywbeh" Khruihchev. tic tale of $ plot by doctors, most [throw bis conaiderable ’"‘*m Wett Round Bunch road Bessie
who is fond of proverbs “Keep of them Jewi*h. to poi*on leading'around. He did. zg*, COURT, Page 8)
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Moscow had an ugly tense of accretery formally approved, he , , , ------ '"j
fo^bodmg promptly denounced the directors j ADAkirC IllirP
DtoWI? for moat concerned - of Soviet agriculture for the sorry) OKANbfc JUILt
iWy ’'-Stalin <££' »%n.^h m! HATS OFF - To Herman Wood,
a stick with you
For hint, the cautious philos-
ophy paid off. The 226-pound bun-
dle of cm
energy who heads for the
United States next week for the
purpose of making
powibiy it
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to^turTT^eatw *~ntnwn Orange buaine.sm.n H#
share of atienttoo to
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