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FOES NAMED
Opponents named (or Mau-
riceville, Buna and Beaumont in
regional play; freshmen make
good shtfWing in Tiger football
drills; field trials start Satur-
day. See stories on page 6-7.
The Orange Leader
VOL. LVMI—NUMBER 47
Member Associated Pr*si ORANGE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23,-1961
18 Pages 5 Cents
LATEST EDITION
100 YEARS AGO
It was 199 years ago today
that President-elect Abraham
Lincoln stole into Washington
amidst rumors rebel groups
were planning to assassinate
him. See complete story today
oo page 19.
Your county Road D|bt | Vast Resources Plan
Drawn by President
(EDITOR'S NOTE—-This is rhe fifth of o
series of factual articles on the road and
bridge deficit of the Orange County Gov-
ernment )
Three times in recent years Or-
ange County’s, property owners
have been saved from an unneces-
sary .increase in their county ta'xes
by a thin edge of reason?
The first threat came in 1958,
just ahead of the opening of Or-
ange Memorial Hospital.
A hospital board appointed by
Commissioners Court was pr par-
ing to open and operate the hos-
pital. '
The c ount y government was
pledged to meet the Cost of the
opening and any subsequent de-
ficit. And publicly operated hos-
pitals have an unbroken record for
running up deficits.
This made an incrra.se ia coyntv
taxes as certain as sunrise tomor-
row unless the operation was taken
out of polittes. .|
i/oTER
Taxpayers reacted sharply to
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH [sumption—to 6j<0 billion gallons| will be given to public agencies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-j daily by 1980'; big scale expan ! and cooperatives.
, dent Kennedy today sent Con-jsion of electric power; forest con-j In outlining plans for water re-
gress a program for vast devel-i starvation; exploration of the! .sources development, the Presi-
opment of America’s natural 'Fe-j oceans for oil, gas and minerals dent said “we rejfcct a ‘no new
!sources and be asserted the Eisen-; and for seafood; great expansioni starts’ policy.” Kennedy did not
Ihowcr administration policy tookof recreational art as; and con- name the Eisenhower administra
I a heavy toll of lives “bv posi-jtrol of air and water pollution | lion but aides said this was a slap
! porting essential flood control pioj-j Kennedy said that in marketingi at his predecessor’s regime. Ken
| acts.” ! federal electric power, preference (See RESOURCES, Page 8)
ln’a special message, the Presi-. ‘ ■——~-~ ----
| dent-set forth plans for both im-j
mediate and, long range dealing
I with a host of problems in the i
! field of resources. He said: "If j
I we fail to use these blessings pru-J
j death?, we will be in trouble iti
' a short time.”
lie called for facing
Major taxpayers did this by j this talk". Once more there was a! H,e. ca!letl for fadmg up to^ the
raising $1 OS,000 among themselves ec. ion not to,go thrrugh with thei Prct>l, ms now, and added. Lie
in tinnnnn » mrnm-atinh ......... -I,.,. „nnl i task is large but it will be*done.
to finance a nonprofit corporation tax increase — that year,
which opened and is still operat-j A resolution which Commission-
ing the hospital The impendingiers Court placed on' its minutes
tax increase was avoided, and the during the road bond
hospital’s operation has not costjjast August reads, in part
fhe county's taxpayer; a penny. ,,J
The second threat of a county
tax increase came in 1958. A letter
and a lot of figures were mailed
Strike Outlook
Here Optimistic
large
j Kennedy placed no price tag on|
■his far-reaching program which,] a cautiously optimistic outlooks Workers Union (AFL-CIO) and
campaign i an?ortg other things, envisages de- was se?n here today on a contract'management officials frtrm the
I f economtcaily j settle ment between striking union Western-Waxide-Division facility
icleat powei within I'M-nembers and Crown Zellerbach returned to contract bargaining at
replace or supplement p)am officials as negotiations re-;2 p.m.
’M The 1960 Orange County ^aJs^to"'^^^
Road Program .is predicated upon ' from conventional fuels in!
fno rptpnttnn rtf tho nnrr.cfatinina f * . . . . • . * -
years
t,^..lon-:sAa_n.dLn8i areas' where 7uclTfuei is expen-Im-
policy of the. county government sjve i
for the use of 15 per cent of cash AdmjnistratIon officials
nr market value of taxable prop-!thcy won-t be ab!e t0 estimate
rrty as the basis of assessment for, thc addcd cost of the over-ail
county taxes. I ms Commissioners. Kennedy program over present
Court anticipates no change.in that; levels of resources spending until
basis for asessment and com-1 studjes bv -the Budget Bureau and
mends to Commissioners Courts of other frderal agencies have been
the future consideration of the completed. These officials indH
Policy." cated they look for very little
swift impact on the budget with
several of Kennedy proposals
geared to needs years from now.
Specific recommendations by
j the President include doubling
dustry. The administration said
this would hike the outlay to $10
million a year.
“I pledge,” said Kennedy, ‘‘that
when this know-how is achieved
it will immediately be made avail-
able to every nation in the world
who (sic) wishe* it, along with
United States welcomes now the!
cooperation of all other nations!
who wish to join in this effort at I
present.” I
The Kennedy program dealt?
with water resources generally j
and the prospect for doubled con-
Another
Special Reader Service
of
The Orange Leader
same
Can the present Commissioners
out from, the courthouse to major j Court keep that pledge? _
taxpayers. The letter said there I G.an future Commissioners
had to be an increase, in county A<l'df,s *eeP lt- . .
taxes'through a hike in the per-1 rhe answer* depend on a mim-
centage of actual values on which °* things future industrial spending on research aimed atj
tax assessments are made I development, the number of new! making salty ocean water suitable
~ 1 >Vv_ nr««»Jhouses built in the county and for use in 'the home and by in*
Spearheaded by the °(r».n/e!where they are built, the number '
Chamber of Commerce, the tax- of automabiles usln county
payers put together syme di fer-, roads - the h* d and th>
ent figures. These showed that no a[ whld( lhe ne* road ^
increase m taxes was necessary. . program can be carrj(.d forward.
There was a w’ordy battle at the But more than anything else,
courthouse over the two sets of [these answers rest in the establish-
tigures. But when die discussion ment and maintenance of sound
was over Commissioners Court had fjnancmi practices at the county | appropriate technical and other
decided not to raise taxes foul courthouse. [assistance for its use. Indeed the
yoar- . . ! And these practices will never
In 1959, there again w as open j be wholly sound until there is a
discussion among m e m b e r s of program for eventual retirement
Commissioners Court about the of the, full amount of the county's
necessity for raising taxes by rais- j $436,767 road and bridge deficit,
mg the basis for county assess-j- (TOMORROW: A solution to
merits ! the problem.)
Pageant Finals Set Tomorrow
“Miss Orange of 1961” will be the Orange Junior’ Chamber of
chosen in a one - hoyr televised Commerce,
pageant scheduled tomorrow at 8] Five finalists selected last Fri-
p.m. in Stark High School Audi-j day night in a preliminary pageant
torium under the sponsorship of! will be competing for the coveted
ORMA Elects
New President
Charles Wooldridge, assistant -
vice president of the First Nation-
al Bank, has been elected presi-
dent of the Orange Retail Mer-
chants Association for the ensuing
year.
Wooldridge’s election, along with
a new slate of officers and direc-
tors, was announced last night as
a highlight of the* annual member-
ship banquet of the ORMA in Sun-
set Grove Country Club.
Announcement of the-new slate
of officers, chosen by secret ballot
prior to the meeting, was made by
Mrs. Jane Childers, retiring presi-
dent. She also conducted installa-
tion ceremonies.
Wooldridge is president of the
Orange Optimist Club, the Great-
er Orange Coin Club and serves
on the board of directors of the i
Orange YMCA.
Other new officers are Jesse Da-|
vis, vice president; Mrs. Harding
Goforth, secretary; and Leon Par-
ish, treasurer. New directors are
Wilburn Smith, Janies Gilliam
and Davis. Mrs. Childers, as out-
going president, automatically be-
comes a director and Lannie Clay-
bar is holdover director.
Erwin Singleton of Beaumont,
manager-lessee of ORMA present-
sumed at the Jack Tar Orange Contract talks opened at 9 a.m.
and continued through the morn-
s a i d Representatives of Local 4-?3 oflin.g ^th a noon recess. They were
the Oil, Chemical and . Atomic continued into the afternoon with
both sides anticipating more inten-
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rived at The Leader today "and
a big stack of pending orders
that came in while our supply
was temporarily exhausted is
being filled.
More orders are being re-
ceived daily and wilt continue to
be accepted .for as long as
any of our readers wish to take
advantage of our offer to sell
these booklets. Delivery may
take two weeks, but persons
using this guide to better
grades tell us they’re worth
waiting for.
Please send order, along
with $1 in cash, check or mon-
ey order, to The Orange Lead-
er, P. O. Box 1028, Orange,
Texas.
crown.
The winner will be crowned by
Sharon Arnold. “Miss Orange of
1960.” Her prizes include a one-
year scholarship to Lamar, a full ' '
year's modeling course, formal! '
(fancing lessons, a dance course!
s s"“'“’ *nd Membership Drops
In addition, the winner becomes
eligible to participate in the “Miss
Texas” pageant to be staged in
Beaumont in June. /
The five finalists are: Ina Jean
•Lockarf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lecial Lockart of 2 Circle F, Rog?-
lawn Addition; Rose Elle Gryder,
daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Biil
C. Gryder of Orangefield; Diana
Ketcheli. daughter of R. J. Freyou
of 340 Park Ave.; Charlotte Rich-
ardson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
$ive discussion on remaining con-
tract items including that on sen-
iority. *
The question of seniority can be
a stumbling block towards the final
consumation of a successful con-
tract.
lt marked, the second consecu-
tive day that mediation has been
under way on an initial pact cov-
ering some 45 production and
maintenance workers at the local
film processing plant off Chemical
Row.
Yesterday George Cowart, inter-
national OCAW representative
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GLAD TO SEE YOU
-Leodtr Photo by Bert Brewor
Rep. Jim Wright (center) from Tarrant
Airline
from Nederland, workingman’s County brought his U.S. Senate campaign to Orange County yester-
committee members and plant of-
ficials talked over contract provi-
sions until nearly 6 p.m.
Plant Mgr. Art Aronsen com-
mented early last night, “The'com-
pany and union negotiating com-
mittee met all day. The company
submitted its counter proposal
which consisted of 16 articles
broken down into 50 subsections.”
He continued, “Ail these articles
except one consisting of six sub-
sections and relating to wages
were discussed. Both groups have
agreed to defer wage discussions
until all other provisions of the
agreement have been settled.”
Aronsen noted, “Of 44 subsec-
tions discussed,- full accord was| ______ _ ________
reached on all but 8. The seniority ]pied -j-exas legislators today as
issues have not been resolved. The;they ,rjed t0 soothe ruffled fetl-
ather unresolved issues include j;n„s from bot committee meet-
company benefit plan and a no|jngS
day afternoon when ha greeted local voters at the MacArthur Drive
Shopping Center. Traveling by chartered helicopter, he also ap-
peared in Vidor later in the day. His appearance here was but one
stop in an extensive schedule this week which will carry him more
than 1,700 miles. During the six-day period he will cover 48 counties
and more than 50 Texas cities.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secre-
tary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg
today won a two-hour extension
of time for an attempt to nego-
tiate settlement of the flight engi-
neers srike.
The agreement on more time
for negotiations was announced by
White House press secretary Pi-
erre Salinger a few minutes be-
fore a previously agreed deadline
—noon EST today.
All the struck airlines except
Western, 9 Pacific coast operator,
had agreed to temporary settle-
ment terms.
The engineers union was stand-
ing pat on, a refusal to enter an
agreement unless Western went
along.
The other affected carriers had
said they’ would pull out of the
settlement unless the men were
ready to go back to work at noon.
Salinger announced that Gold-
berg had won an, agreement from
the industry for an extension of
the deadline Jo 2 p.m.
At the time Of his announce-
ment, Salinger said Goldberg was
attempting to reach the president
of Western Airlines by telephone
in an effort to persuade Western
to go along with the other com-
panies.
Salinger said it was his under-
standing that if Western were to
make such a commitment, the
strike could be settled swiftly.
Goldberg had planned a visit to
the White House to report to
President Kennedy on settlement
efforts. That was put off until aft-
er the new deadline.
White House sources said ear-
lier that Kennedy had been ad-
vised of the prospect that a settle-
ment could be reached if Western
joined in.
The report coincided almost
precisely with an outline given to
(See AIRLINE, Page 8)
Legislators Try To Soothe Feelings
Amid Talks Wrapped Around Taxes
AUSTIN (AP) — Tax talk occu-|!a Garza of Mission, foe author,!Sabine River Compact Comniis-
(See CZ PLANT, Page 8)
The developments included:
1 Abandonment of hope for a
'compromise with Texas bankers
said it would save taxpayers
$.100,000, eliminate $100,000 in
bonds, and bring in $80,000 more a
year.
skm to six years.
The Senate sent to the House
a bill raising the minimum pen-
alty for illegally selling narcotics
Recession Now Hitting Hard
At Door of Labor Operations
tin their feud with Gov. Price,Dan-: sales tax bill to fill Daniel's lat-
iel over his pet abandoned prop-;est recommendations,
erty seizure bill. i “I will have no comment until
2. Passage by the House 146-0 I see the bill,” Daniel commented
of a bill putting state excise tax The House also passed 144-0 and
reporting on a quarterly, instead isenj to the governor a bill chang-
of monthly basis., Rep. Eiigio dejing the terms of directors of the
3. Notice by Rep. Ben Atwell | from two to five years,
of Dallas that he will introduce! Senators then quit until 11 a.m.
next week a $120 million selective Monday.
By NORMAN WALKER
Associated Press Labor Writer
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -
Elva RTchardson of 2214 Link!The-business recession is hitting
Ave, Orange: and Nora Paul,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Paul of 512 Camellia Ave., Rose-
lawn.
Tlie pageant tomorrow night will
be televised by Channel 4. accord-
ing to Pageant Chairman Pearce
Beneke.
hard at organized labor’s own
management operations. A drop
of about one million dues-paying
members has- forced the AFL CIO
to retrench. •
Federation leaders said that, like
many businessmen, they are going
to have to adept economies and get
Little Cypress Volunteers
Make Appeal hr Support
An appeal for more intensified
support of the Little Cypress Vol-
unteer F'ire Department was made
today by President Eugene W. Lof-
ton in advance of today’s meeting
ed Mrs. Childers with a plaque, in j at 7:30 pun. at the school,
appreciation of her services. Alarmed by lagging turnouts for
Dr. Richard l-. -Setzer, dean of, departmental meetings and gener-
the School of Business of Lamar j al lack of interest by Precinct 1
Tech, deliveted the principal ad- ] residents who should be Concern-
dress concerning the importance of | edC Lofton asked The Leader to
education. He wras introduced by ; publish an open letter.
Stuart Kinard, associate pastrif of j The full text of his letter "is as
This marks the first time the i.-nore revenue to keep their big
pageant has ever been televised j labor organization out of the red.
in Orange. It also marks the third j Lagging employment has re-
(See PAGEANT. Page 8) duced AFL-CIO dues paying mem-
---------------- bership from about 13.5 million to
'about 12.5 million, it w>as said.
Members out of work don’t pay
i regular dues.
Also, while dues ,reTCnue has
been declining, union expenses
have been increasing.
The retrenchment program is ex-
pected to result in some layoffs
on the AFL-CIO headquarters
staff in Washington as well as a
and T definitely know that a num-
ber pf persons in our widespread
(See APPEAL, Page 8)
tighter rein on donations to var-
ious causes which have been run-
ning to over $1 million each year,
The AFL-CIO Executive Coun-
cil also was expected to levy a
temporary special assessment of
two cents per member on affiliat-
ed unions in order to counter a
general fund deficit . that has
climbed to about $700,006 in the
past eight months.
The temporary additional dues
.payment, amounting to about $2
million Would continue until the,
AFL-CIO holds its next convention
here in December when a perman-!
ent dues increase is expected to!
be proposed.
The federation’s economic pol-
icy committee, headed by the
United Auto Workers Union pres-
ident, Walter Reuther, issued a
study Wednesday saying that
President Kennedy’s recovery
program, even when put into ef.
feet, won’t stop rising unemploy-.
ment.
I’LL SEE YOU MONDAY
IN THE LEADER TUNNIES
Full Comic Page
To Start Monday
In Your Leader
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Buggs Bunny . Alley Oop. Cap-
+ tain Easy and a host of other pop-
ular comics will join the best of
T the comic strips The Leader is
publishing now, beginning next
Monday.
Publisher James B, Quigley an-
nounced today that he had pur-
chased complete services of the
Newspaper Enterprise Association
(NEA) and will expand'the news
content of The Leader as an an-
other service to readers.
The most visible effects of this
expanded reader service will be
the full page of comics and full
editorial page beginning Monday,
Quiglev pointed out.
Other additions to foe comic
page will be Mortv Meekie. Freck-
(See COMICS, Page 8)
the First Methodist Church, and a
former student of Dr. Setzer.
CLOUDY?
follows: “To my neighbors, friends
and all of the people in the Little
Cypress area, namely Forest
Heights, Ridgecrest. Echo, West
Bluff Road, Brownwood, Old High-
way 87, Kinard Estates. Lenion-
ville Road and all the little by-
roads and streets.
“Last year, your precinct com-
missioner. Casey J. Peveto, bar-
gained with the City of Orange far
fire protection for one year. This
action required a great deal of
foresight on his part. On Feb. P,
1961, this contract expired
TEC To Begin
Moving Task Jjj
To New Office
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Tlie Texas Employment Com-
mission tomorrow /will start mov-
ing into its new $30,000 office build-
ing at 316 Cypress Ave.
Clifford Weir, manager of the lo-
cal TEC, said moving operations
will probably . continue through
Saturday with the office scheduled
to open for business in the new
location Monday.
Business Will be conducted as
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OUTLOOK — Clear 1o portly tlouuy omu H
warmer this att*rnoory and tonlghl. High**!
temperature today near 74, and the low
tomorrow morning 52. Tomorrow .ncr^asing
cloudiness with scattered showers or fhun
denljowers find turning cooler with highest
66. Southwesterly winds fncreasina to
‘ m.p.h. and shifting to northerly
before neon tomorrow.
TIDES — Sobine; high, 1:2? p.m , 7 44
about 66.
’6 fo 24
igfo 1.41 p.m ,
Ami low, 4:30 o.m., 9:21 pm Bol'vnr:
Moh, 2:30 p.m., I:S2 p.m.; low, 6:24 o.m ,
H IT p.m. * -
SUN — Rii« 6 47 om . nil 6.12 otn
YESTERDAY — t»mp«ratui«j: Ptgli «*
tow A
"Some few weeks before this! usual Friday at the 705 Division
number of enterprising! Ave., location despite moving op-
citizens began making efforts ,to orations, he added.
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help you and your families on this
matter of fire protection. '
“There have been two meetings
at the Little Cypress School for or-
ganizational purposes The. nucleus
of a volunteer fire department has
been formed. This was done
Our new office 'contains 1,000
more square feet of working space
than our former location, and bet- |
fer facilities fo serve the public,”
he commented /
In announcing plans for occupan-
cy of the new structure, Weir ex-
v.?v.y,,
all
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through the efforts of about 31 j tended a special invitation to em
men Out of these 31, 1 think none! ployers and -the public to inspect
lhas.evu had a file at his homej (Sec TEC, Rage 8)
TEXAS EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION TO OCCUPY NEW HEADQUARTERS
Will Be Open for Business in Building Monday
—taactor Photo by Bill!* Junt Murphy
The Senate passed Sen. A. R.
Schwartz’ narcotics bill, 29-0. A
committee amendment revised
the original bill to retain the two
year minimum for possession of
narcotics.
An old statute requiring the
state to hold ownership of braces
given crippled children in the
state institutions was wiped out.
The bill went to the governor.
The Senate passed a bill re-
ducing foe annual permit fees
charged out-of-state corporations
who dispense records to radio and
television stations. The annual
permits would range frem $50 to
$250 depending on the number of
stations serviced. The comptrol-
ler would have authority to file
a complaint against such com-
panies to collect such fees.
The Senate refused to suspend
the rules to bring up for debate
a bill making a historical shrine
out of the old state Supreme
Court and Court of Criminal Ap-
peals rooms in the capitol.
“Frankly, I think we have
given them a pretty good shrpie
over there in foe new courts
building,” Sen. A. M. Aikfn told
the author, Sen. Charles Herring
of Austin. ■
Sen. Henry Gonzalez of San
Antonio introduced again his bill
providing a public defender to
act without expense for anyone
unable to employ a lawyer after
the person has been charged with
a crime.
The House adjourned until II
a.m. Monday after passing to
third and final reading a bill by
Rep Malcolm, McGregor of El
Paso to allow the State Hospital
Board to contract with local hos-
pitals. doctors and other agen-
cies for the care and treatment
of persons committed to board
jurisdiction,/ '
The bill was oDDOsed by Reps.
(See LEGISLATURE, Page 8)
ORANGE JUICE |
REFUGEES? — Saleswomen at
one of the Orange department
stores dressed yesterday in typi-
cal colonial fashion —.pantaloons
and all — in observance of George
Washington's birthday anniversa-
ry. But holiday-ignorant customer*
failed to guess the obvious connec-
tion and inquired: “What happen-
ed? You get throwed off of Wagon
Train or something?”
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED —
Mrs Guy Drake of 905 Burton Ave.
called vesterdav to inform QJ that
she s eiaimiag the honor of bavin*
the first purttle martins returning
here. Her family of purple martin#
-etumed to their birdhou#* in her
i back yard on Feb. 1*.
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