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'Hot Lead' Reported in Slayings
The Orange Leader
VOLUME III
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Member- Associated tress
ORANGE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1955
10 Pages
NUMBER 153
Dulles Minimizes Downing of American Plane
Trigger Happy
Soviet Pilots
Given Blame
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Decision on Enlarging School District Held Up
Parliamentary Question Delays Annexation Vote
By JOE GILMARTIN
The proposed annexation of a
strip of Little Cypress Independ-
ent School District land by the
Orange Independent School Dis-
trict ran the full gamut of par-
liamentary procedure at the Or-
ange board’s meeting last night,
and finally came back full circle
to where it was at the outset.
A motion to accept the territory
was made, followed by a motion
to table that motion, followed by
a little soul searching on parlia-
mentary procedure, then a vote on
the tabling, and finally a vote
on the original acceptance motion.
When the smoke of verbal joust-
School Board Picks Architects
For New Construction Program
The Orange Independent School
District Board of Education,* act-
ing on recommendations submit-
tecUby its architectural committee,
last night selected the Beaumont
firm of Stone and Pitts as the
planner for the district’s proposed
Switchman in Shorts
Unbothered by Jeers
OMAHA (API—“They really
razz me.”
That’s what F.dward 7-e-
manek, a husky freight car
switchman, said about the Ber-
muda short* he wears on the
Job.
“They laugh and holler and
whistle.’’ he said. “I get a big
kick out of it. It doesn't bother
me a bit.”
The big brakeman related he
came to shorts gradually. He
started out by rolling up his
overall legs. “But that still
proved too hot »o,”he said, “I
Just decided to wear shorts and
be done wdth it."
Chaplain Bol
To Make Trip
To Antarctic
The Rev. Peter Bol, chaplain
for the past 20 months at the Or-
ange Naval Station, has been as-
signed to duty wih a U.S. Navy
task force sailing Nov. 1 for the
Antarctic territory for an 18-
month expedition. He will be suc-
ceeded here by Lt. Cmdr. George
E. Vanderpoel, who has already ar-
rived to assume the post vacated
by Chaplain Bol.
Adm. Richard E, Byrd will be
a member of the expedition, which
is one of the most extensive ever
planed for the Antarctic, the Rev.
Bol stated. He will report to
Washington, D.C., around Aug. 15
for consultation with the staff
of the task force before reporting
to Seabee headquarters in Davis-
ville, R.I.
In addition to ministering to
TT.S. Navy personnel sailing with
the task force the Rov. Bol also
will be chaplain to Seabees at-
tached to the expedition and at
Installations in the Antarctic. The
Bot family will leave Orange
Thursday and will visit relatives
in Michigan on route to Cali-
fornia. Mrs. Bol and their son.
Michael, will make their home
temporarily at 127 North Catalina
Ave., Apt. 4, Pasadena 4, Calif.
Chaplain Vanderpoel takes up
his post in Orange following du-
ties on the USS Worcester. A
Baptist minister, he will conduct
regular services at the Navy
Chapel here and perform the du-
ties of a pastor to Navy personnel
in Orange. Mrs. Vanderpoel and
the couple’s three children, Peter,
7, David, 5, and Deborah. 3, will
move to Orange next week.
long range building program.
J. T. Arledge, chairman of the
committee, which included Mrs.
Eunice Benckenstein and M. B.
North, reported that the Beau-
mont firm, which did the planning
on the last big building program
undertaken by the district, had
been chosen because of “Satis-
factory work” done in the past.
He said that six firms had in-
dicated interest in the job, and
told the board that they were “all
qualified” to handle it.
In other action last night, the
board:
1. Agreed to co-sign the West
Orange Independent School Dis-
trict’s application for accredita-
tion as a nine-grade school.
2. Approved a calendar for the
1955-56 school year.
3. Authorized Business Mana-
ger Charles Austin to purchase
classroom equipment for the now-
under-construction four-room ad-
dition at Jones Elementary School
from the American Desk Go.
Construction of a junior high
school is virtually complete in
West Orange, and the West Or-
ange District already has been
classified by the Orange County
Board of Trustees as a nine-grade
district for the coming, school
year.
However, the district also has
applied to the Texas Education
Agency for initial accreditation of
a junior high program, and under
TEA regulations, such an applica-
tion must be acceptable to that
school district which regularly re-
ceives the transfer students above
the ninth grade from the applying
(See SCHOOL BOARD. Page 6)
ing had cleared, and the board ap-
parently had taken final action on
the matter by endorsing the an-
nexation, 3-2, A tty. Graham
Bruce who. albng with V. J. Zeto
appeared refore the board to plead
the cause of annexation, pointed
out that he felt that the law on
this point required approval by
a majority of the board.
Since one board member was
not present, the matter was auto-
matically tabled, and a special
meeting was set up for next
Thursday night to take final ac-
tion.
The special rncoting had to be
called to beat a July 8 deadline at
which time the County Board of
Trustees is scheduled to take up
the matter.
Zeto and Graham introduced a
map showing the boundaries of
the land which would be annexed.
It amounts to some 200 acres, and,
the Little Cypress board already
has agreed to at least part of the
annexation.
However, there are still some
areas of controversy surrounding
the' move. One of these is the
question of the Sunset Grove
Country Club and whether or not
it will be ceded to the Orange
District as parriof the annexation.
The feeling in some quarters
has been that it will, but Bruce
(See ANNEXATION, Page 6)
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Girls Haven Issue
Is Due for Airing
Members of the board of ad-
justment were to go into session
today at 2:30 p.m. to try to un-
ravel the problem of whether or
not Girls Haven will move into
a $21,000 gift residence at 702
Cherry St.
Fred Trimble, local attorney and
member of the haven board of
directors, has filed an appeal from
a ruling by City Bldg. Insp. J. W.
Winfrey on a refusal to issue a
building permit and the issuance
of a certificate of occupancy. This
hearing today is expected to be
one of controversy with objections
raised by DeWitt C. Bennett and
James N- Neff, local attorneys
who would be immediate neigh-
bors at the proposed new location.
The board of adjustment has
interpretative powers and the
problem falls under the definition
of “family,” issuance of a special!
exception, or- both. The lawyers
opposing the new location con-
tend that under the city toning
ordinance, a philantropic insti-
tution property belongs in a C
zone and cannot be placed in a
B residential district.
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ClaybarGets
Beer License
One tavern tussle has been set-
tled, but an old oiW has been re-
opened in the Little Cypress area.
A beer license was issued yes-
terday in Orange County Court
for Ambrose Claybar’s Club 87,
one of two taverns operating in
a dry precinct through a bound-
ary error. •
Claybar turned in the club’s li-
cense to the State Liquor Control
Board in Beaumont a couple of
weeks ago, and then filed an ap-
plication for a new license with
the county clerk’s office, stating
that the establishment was being
moved into a wet area.
Expected opposition to the re-
opening of Club 87 failed to de-
velop at yesterday's hearing.
The old controversy, which ap-
parently has been revived, in-
volves E. R. Bums, Orange.
Bums, who was denied a permit
for a beer license on Aug. 17, 1954,
after Little Cypress residents pro-
tested against such a move, has
filed another application in the
county clerk’s office.
He is seeking a permit for the
same spot he was turned down
on almost a year ago—a ruling
appealed to and lost in the Su-
preme Court—seven miles north
of Orange on the east side of
Highway 87.
One other application was filed
yesterday, by Henke A Pillot.
Hearings on both the Pillot and
Burns applications have been aef
for July 15 in County Court.
Murderer
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-
dent Eisenhower today signed the
bill raising the pay of 1,073,262
federal employes 7 Vi per cent or
an average of about $325 a year.
Enactment of the measure com-
pletes a round pf U.S. pay in
creases voted at this session
totaling about 1 1/4 billion dollars.
The bill signed today covers
983,057 classified Civil Service
employes throughout the nation
and 90.205 others in various gov-
ernment agencies with separate
pay systems.
The increase, which will cost
about 328 million dollars a year,
is retroactive to March 1. This
means the employes will get lump
sum. paynients totaling about 110
million as soon as they can be
arranged.
The annual payroll for the
workers covered by the bill now
is ^bout $4.350,000,000 a year. The
last general pay raise foj: these
workers was in 1951.
The increases will run from
about $190 a year to $l.0p5 for
the Civil Service employes.
Employes covered in addition to
the classified workers are em-
ployes of Congress and the federal
courts, the Foreign Service of the
State Department, the Atomic
Energy Commission, the Central
Intelligence Agency, the Tennes-
see Valley Authority, the medical
department of the Veterans Ad-
(See PAY RAISE, Page 6)
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H. B. WHITEHEAD
Orange Labor
Leader Picked
For State Post
Re-elected to his third one-year
term, H. B. Whitehead of Orange,
has been installed as president of
the State Building Trades Council
(AFL) in ceremonies in Dallas, it
was announced here today.
The 44-year-old Orange resi-
dent is now serving in his fourth
year as business manager of the
Orange-Port Arthur Building and
Construction Trades Council. He
was elected to 5 the state post
without opposition at the annual
meeting of the state council and 16
Texas AFL trade groups Sunday
in Dallas. This convention was
held on the eve of the 57th annual
convention of the Texas State Fed-
eration of I-abor" (AFL).
Other officer* of the Building
Trades Council included Harry
Johrtson, San Antonio, executive
secretary and treasurer, and W.
Lee Gard, Galveston, Alex Mc-
Cambridgc, Houston, Carl Knight,
El Paso, A. D. Peschka, Austin,
Le Scallon, San Antonio, C. J.
Lightholder, Lubbock, and R. W.
Wilkcrson, Beaumont, all mem-
bers of the board of directors.
A longtime labor representative
in AFL Circles, Whitehead, who
lives at 1007 Main St., before be-
ing named as business manager of
the local council was the business
agent for the Orange-Port Arthur
painters’ local. He has been in
strumental in working out and
developing the joint labor con-
tract where the expiration date
for all crafts is at the same time.
It is anticipated that all crafts
will negotiate at the same time
with various management groups
thus avoiding a series of such con-
ferences and work stoppages.
This arrangement, calling for
simultaneous bargaining, has been
labeled as a material step forward
in continued labor peace in this
section of tha lower Sabin* area.
Whitehead is now attending the
Texas State Federation of Labor
convention and is expected to re-
turn to Orange Thursday.
Labor Conclave Refuses To Let
Speaker Make All of Address
DALLAS (AP) — The Texas
State Federation of Labor (AFL)
refused last night to let a speaker
make all of a scheduled talk.
The speaker, Ben Mitchell, ex-
ecutive vice president of the Texas
Employers Insurance Assn., then
cancelled the entire speech.
Officials of the labor ■ group
said they asked Mitchell to
a portion of the talk referring to
a group’of claimants' compensa-
tion attorneys.
Jerry Holleman. TSFL exec-
Idaho Polio Vaccine Program
To Be Postponed Indefinitely
been reported in Idaho this year,
compared to 17 through June of
thi
BOISE. Idaho (AP) The
Idaho polio mass vaccination pro- . ]ast r qj tf,cge 20 cases oc-
gram-already postponed indef- | curred ln vaccinated chjldl.en and
inltely—faced new delays today as 54 wefe associates thos* who
state health authorities announced , received the vaccliw
they had “lost confidence in the
Salk vaccine.”
State Health Director L. J.
Peterson told newsmen that Idaho
“will not sponsor another mass
inoculation program” because of
new doubts about the effectiveness
and safety of the vaccine.
He told newsmen he holds the
vaccine—together with its manu-
facturing instructions—responsi-
ble for a polio outbreak which has
killed seven Idahoans and hos-
pitalized 79 others since the mass
immunization program was started
in April.
But he added that the depart-
ment does not blame the Cutter
Laboratories, of Berkeley, Calif.,
which produced tee vaccine used
in Idaho, “because they were only
carrying out the procedures wit-
lined by Dr. Salk."
The reference was to Dr. Jonas
Salk, developer of the antipolio
vaccine.
Niaaty-aev ea polio cases have1
Peterson spoke in elaboration of
a report prepared by two health
department officials and approved
by him for publication in US.
News and World Report.
“We have been disappointed in
the apparent lack of interest of all
of the developers and promoters
of the vaccine program,” the re-
port sakL
’’We have had the feeling at
times that some individuals in au-
thority have been operating on the
basis that if they only close their
eyes long enough, the Idaho prob-
lem would disappear ”
Peterson told reporters he felt
top scientists should have come to
Idaho because “this was the head-
quarters of the biggest outbreak
there was. this was the place they
could study the facts.”
He noted that Salk had declined
the department’s invitation to
come to Idaho and had “said he
would oack and invite us back
te his place, but he never baa-'
utive, said, “We do not propose
to let him use Us as a forum to
expound a view contrary to the
best interests of the working
people of Texas.”
Mitchell called Holleman'* *c-
tion “censorship.”
Earlier, Ralph Yarborough,
twice a labor-backed candidate
"1“ t i for governor of Texas, called on
1 labor to exercise it* voting right*
and “clean out the graft and cor-
ruption in Austin.” -
Yarborough’* address to the 500
delegate* opened a four-day les-
sion of the TSFL'* 57th annual
convention.
Other speakers Included Ben-
Jack Gage. Dallas, insurance firm
executive, and Leroy M. Williams,
Houston, president of the federa-
tion.
Williams ssld the Texas Legis-
lature slowly but surely was losing
its “hang the labor union" philo-
sophy. For the most part, he ad-
ded, the state government is drift-
ing away from an anti-labor at-
titude.
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Secretary of State Dulles to-
day blamed “trigger happy”
Russian pilots for the shoot-
ing down of an American
Navy patrol plane off Alaska last
week.
“So far, we doubt that repre-
sents a considered policy on the
part of the Soviet Union,” Dulles
said. “Certainly, we hope not.”
Dulles’ statement, in effect de-
precating the significance of the
plane incident, came at a news
conference. He and President Ei-
senhower had talked over the af-
fair during a plane trip >last night
from Maine to Washington.
Regret Expressed
In reply to questions, Dulles said
the government has not decided
yet whether to stick to its demand
that Russia pay the full cost of
the plane and provide reparations
for seven crewmen who were
rwounded or injured in the crash
landing.
Russia has expressed regret
over the incident and has offered
to pay half the cost of damages.
The Navy estimates the plane's
value at more than 1 Vi million
dollars. » ,
In talking td reporters, Dulles
stressed the plane crash occurred
at least 25 miles from Soviet ter-
ritory. and well beyond the 12-
mile limit RusTsia claims as its
air space.
Routine Flight
The plane was on a routine
flight, made twice Weekly, from
Kodiak Air Base north to look for
vessels in distress and conduct
similar patrol missions.
“At least the Soviet Union has
jnade an expression of regret,"
Dulles said in a statement. He
said he believes this is the first
time it has publicly expressed
regret “over the conduct of Its
armed forces.”
The secretary said that while he
deplores the incident, he never-
theless hope the Geneva “sum-
mit” conference next month “ran
begin on the assumption that all
four of the participants genuinely
desire a secure peace.”
In comment on other plane in-
cidents, Dulles said he had no in-
formation to support Chinese Na-
tionalist air force claims that Rus-
sian pilots manned fighters which
attacked a Nationalist jet trainer
(See DULLES, Page 6)
State To Delay
Fund Transfer
County Judge Charlie Grooms
said today that he had received
assurances from Julian C. Greer,
state highway engineer in Austin,
that no state money earmarked
for highway programs in Orange
County would be transferred or
in any way sidetracked until
Greer has an opportunity to study
teh situation here more fully.
Judge Grooms was referring to
an ultimatum delivered here last
week by the Beaumont office of
the State Highway Department,
that at least $90,000 in proposed
expenditures on highway* would
be transferred out of Orange
County unless definite and posi-
tive action was taken on the ac-
quisition of rights-of-way.
The judge said that while Greer
didn’t refer directly to this $90,-
000, he did assure him that Or-
ange County would lose nothing—
at least not for the time being.
The Orange County Commis-
sioner’s Court has expressed a
desire to make a trip to Austin
for a conference with Greer, and
Greer told Judge Grooms that he
was in a better position to talk
at this time than he had been at
an earlier date when the court met
with him.
DICKINSON (AP) -1 Texas
Rangers said today a June 18
Dallas arrest of an airman
has given them a “hot lead”
ian their widespread search for
an airman sought in a triple slay-
ings
Ranger Capt. Hardy Purvis said
identification of the airman sought
for questioning could be expected
“shortly.”
Rangers and Dallas police met
this morning in Centerville to
check police photographs taken of
the airman at the time of the
Dallas arrest.
Name* Match
The Rangers at mid-morning
reportedly were en route to Dick-
inson to have witnesses check the
photographs for identification.
Dallas police said the descrip-
tion of tiie arrested airman, who
later was released, matches that
given by two waitresses who saw
Mrs. Ruby C. McPherson with an
airman In a Dickinson restaurant
last Wednesday night. They said |
the arrested airman’s last name |
matches that given by the two
waitresses. »
Investigators believe that Mrs.
McPherson, her 12-year-old son
and her mother were shot to death
at their home Wednesday night.
Weapon Was Rifle
Purvis also disclosed that the
murder weapon was a .22 rifle,
not a .25 caliber pistol as authori-
ties had thought earlier.
The developments todav follow-
ed the announcement last night
that robbery probably was the
motive in the fatal shooting of
Mrs. Ruby C. McPherson, her 12-
year-old son and her mother.
,* Officers still have been unable
to find a robust young hitchhiker
with whom Mrs. McPherson, wife
of an oil drilling firm official, was
seen on Wedensday night —c
John M. McPherson Sr, the
husband, last night told police that
his wife’s wedding and engage-
ment rings and about $40 she was
known to have had a few hours
before she was shot were all miss-
ing.
The bodies of Mrs. McPherson,
44, her son, George, 12, and her
mother, Mrs. Zola Norman, 71,
were found Saturday night in
their home near this Galveston
County town ort the busy Hous-
ton-Galveston Gulf Freeway. Her
See HOT LEAD, Page 6)
Steel Plants
Getting Ready
To Shut Down
PITTSBURGH (AP) — CIO
United Steelworkers President
David J. McDhnald, pressing to
avert a nationwide steel strike
Thursday midnight, resumed ne-
gotiations today with the nation’s
six big steel producers.
Af the same time U.S. Steel
Corp., the world’rlargest producer
and Jones & Laughlin Corp., the
nation’* fourth biggest steel maker
said preliminary step* are under
way to effect an orderly shutdown
of its mills.
A spokesman for Jones <V
Laughlin also said the company
will submit an offer to the union
later in the day. He said the offer
substantially will be the same as
that offered by U.S Steel earlier.
That offer was rejected toy the
union.
Before entering the meeting
with U.S. Steel, McDonald was
asked by a newsman if he at any
time suggested to industry a plan
for a guaranteed unemployment
benefit fund. -
McDonald replied:
“Our contract calls for wages—
wages only. I will stand by the
Contract. I have talked to the steel
companies only about a substan-
tial wage increase.”
BRITISH JET SETS RECORD
LONDON (AP)—The Royal Air
Force claimed the first jet record
for the 3,330 mile* between Otta-
wa and London today. Jets had
made the flight before, but never
under conditions meeting interna-
tional record requirements.
MOLOTOV LISTENS ON WEATHER PHONE—Soviet Foreign
Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, listens on a phone to a special weather
report device as he toured the Museum of Science and Industry on
Chicago's south side during a layover between trains. Explaining the
phone operation is Maj. Lenox Lohr, left, head ol the museum, who
lunched with Molotov. (AP Wirephoto)
President's Program for Federal
Highway Financing Is Challenged
WASHINGTON (AP)— The Commission On Intergovernmental
Relations took issue today with President Eisenhower’s hfghwav fin-
ancing program and railed on his administration to assume full com-
mand of civil defense.
The 25-member commission, created by Congress two years ago
to recommend boundary lines for
overlapping taxes and encroaching
governmental authority, filed with
the President a 311-page docu-
ment proposing:
Withdrawal of
government from si
the federal
me fields of
Lattimore
Perjury Case
Is Abandoned
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
government decided today to drop
its 2‘/i-year-old attempt to try
Owen Lattimore on charges of
perjury.
Atty. Gen. Brownell mad# the
announcement.
Brownell noted that the U.S.
District and Appeals Courts here
had twice thrown out key counts
of indictments charging Lattimore
with false testimony before the
Senate Internal Security eubcom-
mittee in early 1952. Brownell said
it thus appeared impossible to pro-
ceed mi five remaining perjury
counts.
Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins lec-
turer and Far Eastern affairs spe-
cialist, was accused of lying in
denying thnt he had been a fol-
lower or promoter of the Commu-
nist line.
These accusations were de-
scribed by Federal Dlst. Judge
Luther W Youngdohl as “formless
and obscure," and too vague for
the 54-year-old Lattimore to de-
fend.
Youngdaht threw them out, and
his judgment on this was twice
upheld by the Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia.
taxation—leaving them to the
states and cities—a* rapidly *s
tax reduction becomes possible.
It named no specific taxes.
2. Federal “payments in lieu of
taxes” to cities and states, inecom-
pensation for,real estate stricken
from their tax roll* becadse of
federal ownership.
3. \jncreased federal appropria-
tions Tqr a stepped-up, state-ad-
ministered highway construction
program to be financed on a “pay-
a»-you-build” basis, not by bor-
rowing.
4. Action by Congress to trans-
fer Responsibility for civil defense
to Washington from the states amt
cltips—which the commission said
are ill-equipped financially and
otherwise to carry the burden.
5. Continuance with some im-
portant changes and curtailments,
of federal grants-in-aid, under
which more than two billion dol-
lars annually Is furnished to states
and local governments. The fed-
eral grant, the report aeid. “has
become a fully matured device of
cooperative government.” L
The commission headed bv
Meyer Kestnbaum of Chicago,
president of the Hart Schaffner A
Marx clothing concern, emphasized
this view:
"A fundamental objective of our
system of government should be
to keep centralization to a mini-
mum and state-local responsibility
to a maximum.”
It called on the government to
exercise “forbearance” in en-
croaching on the Jurisdiction of
states, counties and cities, but em-
phasized that the states must mod-
ernize their constitutions and tax
systems and reorganize their ad-
(See COMMISSION, Page 6) 0
Revised Military Reserve Bill
Approved by House Committee
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House Armed Service* Committee
today approved 29-1 President Ei-
senhower’s revamped military re-
serve program and sent it back to
the House.
Helicopters Utilized
In Training of Guard
NORTH FORT HOOD (AP)—
Fully armed, 10-man squads of in-
fantry were scheduled for move-
ment to simulated combat areas
by helicopter today— a new phase
in summer training for the 49th
Armored Division.
The National Guard division’s
8,500 officers and men moved into
the hills of this' Central Texas
Army post yesterday for four days
of field problems.
their training will include work
on a tank-infantry combat course
where live ammunition adds real-
ism.
Shivers Says Partisanship Is Dying in America
“ I got these sun glasses
In the Leader Want Ads to fool
my wife—now she never know*
where I’m looking;”
NEW YORK (AP)—Texas Gov.
Allan Shivers said here today par-
tisanship is dying in America and
predicted neither major political
party next year can expect support
it has not earned.
“As never before, the people of
this ladH are going to examine
closely tee methods, the standards,
i the conduct which these partie*
display,” Shivers declared in a
speech at a Texas Day luncheon
of the Sales Executive Club.
Gov. Shivers said a dim view,
of tee future seems sometimes to
be demanded from a conservative
such as himself but that he is con-
fident the country'* future end
way of life ha* never been bright-
“It i« my confidence in and res-
pect for tee principle* on which
thi* nstion was founded that for-
tifies me in that faith,” he said.
“When people prospeg, by their
own labor*, partisanship die* —
and partisanship is dying in
America just as sectionalism and
division-, prejudices are dying,"
be rud.
In 1952, Shivers was one of the
Democratic southern governors
who supported Republican Dwight
D. Eisenhower for the presidency.
Shjvan has repeatedly insisted he
Remains fundamentally a Demo-
crat
Shivers said both major political
parties have rendered “fine serv-
ice” to the nation but stand trial
now a* to whether they can meet
fully the responsibilities of chang-
ing times.
'*Across the land there is sweep-
ing a strong tide of reaction
againstothe trend toward overcen-
tralization of government, yet the
political parties seek their power
from that yery source.
“Jit times, they even seek to bsr
from participation—with their
power—those who
re to disagree. ! F
“The year is netr at hand when
both parties must again face an
P«ac« Ship Projacf
Crf* COP Support
be on trial before the
public. They ctn expect no
they have not earned,
dence they do not strive to win.”
Shivers mid the nation will
someday recognize a debt to the
South far ita diligence and per-
serverance In keeping alive the
“state’s rights" principle of the
American system. »
Because the South used Its
strength, he mid.
“Our nation has
beginnings of ■
national police to harass the peo-
ple in their homes, we have es-
caped the oppressive influence of
federal control over free elections,
Wjuve sterpmed the tide against
central direction of the economy
and agaibsLreducing the right to
work to a privilege conferred by
♦ central government ”
“I say this in no spirit of bellig-
erence,” he said. “States' rights
are not southern rights—they are^
national rights, and today there is
an urgent need for all Americans
in all states to recognize and use
the power within their reach to
add to the national strength.”
With three other mtmbtri
PI MUST —HELICOPTERS—114
approved a rewritten measure al-
lowing the Pentagon to expand
the trained reserves by calling
upon teen-agers willing to volun-
teer for reserve duty.
The revised measure won sup-,
port from Rep. Short (R-Mo),
ranking GOP member of the com-
mittee and leading opponent of the
original version.
The forces led by Short stymied
the President’s program last
month.
Short said the new draft is not
Universal Military Training be-
cause “there (s no compulsion, it
is purely voluntary.’’
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) told
the committee he will need its
full strength to fight off a new
antisegregation amendment which
he said Rep. Powell (D-NY) will
introduced when the measure
reaches the floor, probably late
this week.
The original bill was dropped
after Powell got through a provi-
sion barring the federal assign-
ment of reservists to segregated
National Guard units.
The rewritten bill eliminates all
reference to the Guard, but St still
can be amended. Vinson said
Powell will offer a proviso which,
in effect, would prevent youths
from volunteering for service in
segregated guard units as a means
of escaping the two vears’ active
service required by the draft.
irs GRANDCHILD DIES
’INE (AP)—Mrs. Hally Bal-
kan Perry. 87, great-
grandchild pf Texas colonizer
Mosses Austin, died yesterday.
ORANGE J
ASH1NGTON (AP) — Senate
arts planned a floor fight
to restore funds for Presi-
dent Eisenhower’s demonstration
peace ship project.
Sen. Hickenlooper (R-Iowa)
told a reporter in advance of de-
bate on the measure that he
would offer an amendment to the
Atomic Energy Commission con-
struction bUl to put money back
for tbs ifep.
BE THESE
who have received their IS
turns of “Orange Peel” are urged
to attend an annual signing party
tomorrow from 1 to 3 pun. in the
Carr Junior High School audi-
torium. It is being sponsored by
thePTA.
MYSTERY OF LIFE—The won-
dering of a 5-year-old boy who
suddenly discovers his tint
tooth. It is followed bf tha
placatory Jiggling and
to wondering and i
GE JUICE|
- Orange students
ived their IMS edi-
.
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 153, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 28, 1955, newspaper, June 28, 1955; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth558825/m1/1/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.