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C"' s
MAURICEVILLE WINS
Mauriceville's Panthers cap-
tured the regional basketball
tournament at Brenham last
night and earned a place in the
State tournament at Austin 'his
weekend. See story today on
page 8.
The Orange Leader
VOL. LVIII—NUMBER 49 Member Associated Press ORANGE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1961
How Often Does
Your County Government
. Borrow Money
EDITOR'S NOTE—This Is a postscript
to the series of articles on the.Orange
County road and bridge deficit wJcb
was completed In Friday's edition of
Tbt Leader.
If a Texas county government
borrows money requiring,a spe-
cial tax to make payments on
•the loan it must first secure the
permission of a majority —
sometimes a Wo-thirds majori-
ty — of taxpaying voters par-
ticipating in an election on the
proposition.
But if the debt is-to be repaid
out of what are known as the
"\
Another
Special Reader Service
. * of
The Orange Leader
“constitutional tax rates," per-
mission, of the voters is not re-
quired. These are. tax rates
which a county government is
permitted to levy on its own
initiative.
Taxpaying voters of the coun-
ty have’ authorized in elections
five major borrowings for per-
manent improvements. These
were the road bond issues of
1919, 1948 and 1960. a 1936 court-
house improvements bond issue,
and a 1954 hospital bond issue.
There is no available record of
borrowings without consent of
tiie taxpayers prior to 1945, but
Congo Capital Taken
By Lumumbist T roops
rmDnmmnr MASSEY. • ders to prevent clashes between* Lumumbists long have held
LE°p°LDvILLE the Congo government and rebel troops. But Stanleyville and Bukavu, capital
(AP) — The United Nations the U.N. spexesman said, the of Kivu province
shrugged off Saturday a Congo- Ghanaians had no grounds to There ^rere gi„,„ the Leopold
lese government ultimatum de- prevent a peacjful "merger” of v|tL government knew a' week
manding action against Lumum- the two forces. ago that rebeI troops were in th$
bist -troops who traveled halfway The government commander m Luluabourg area hut thought thev
across the Congo to take over the he city, a Col. Mjako was given were going t0 defect t0 govern-
town of Luluabourg. U N. protection after the invasion. ment forces commanded by Maj
The coup brought Lumumbist;the spokesman sgid, and now is a Gen JoseDh Mobutu .
forces to' within 500 miles qf T,eo- "house guest" of a civilian U.N. ' wjuji, UN forces f-om I ulna
; aoldville and Sent a sharp throb administrator Government and bourg went' to Lusambo. about
of alarm through officials in the!rebel troops took up joint duties!
1 regime of President Joseph at the airport and in the city. 1 (See CONGO, Page 13)
Kasavubu. Capture of the Kasai
Province capital gave Antoine Gi-
Uenga's leftist Stanleyville regime
control of three of the Congo’s six
| provincial capitals.
Deputy Premier Joseph Boli-
kanqo gave notice that unless the
United Nations took steps within j
six hours to clear the intruders'
out of Luluabourg, the. Leopold-
ville government would take "dis-
positions which the situation de-
mands.”
The United Nations said: “We
don't know what action they want
|.us. to take or what action (hey
Local Strike
Issues Cited
By BERT BREWER
(week will
available within
Seniority, check-off of union dues!week for union members. This will
and a no strike clause provided,be available for the duration of
1945—Road and Bridge Refunding Bonds
1948— Road and Bridge Time Warrants
1949— Road and Bridge Machinery Time Warrants
1949— Road and Bridge Machinery Time Warrants
194.9—Road Improvement Time Warrants
1950— Road and Bridge Machinery Time Warrants
1950— Road Improvement Refunding Bonds
1951— Road^and Bridge Machinery Time Warrants
1951—Road Improvement Refunding Bonds
1957—Road and Bridge Time Warrants . ------------
1957—Counhouse Time Warranis --------------
1957— Road and Bridge Time Warrants .
4958—Right-of-Way Time Warrants
1958— Road and Bridge Refunding Bonds
1959— Road and Bridge Time Warrants ------ -------
1960— Road and Bridge Time Warrants —............
1961— Road and Bridge Time Warrants
since that year the Orange Coun-
ty government has floated loans
Of tilts type on 12 occasions.
Amounts still owed on some of { want to do themselves.”
these loans made up 8291,484 of j a Whited Nations spokesman due for breaking off of contract the strike.’
the total $436,757 county road ! said the 2,000-man government .negotiations Friday between offi-1 McAdams indicated that Cowart
and bridge deficit which existed j garrison in the city', Luluabourg, jcials- of the local Crown Zellernachjhad informed the Federal iMedia-
on Jan. 1, 1961. Here is a list of ;welcomed with open arms the 300;film processing plant and repre-jtion and Cone!Illation.Board of the
tiie borrowings without taxpay- j rebels who journeyed 800 miles isentatives of Local 4-23 of the "Oil, 'break down in negotiations,
ers’ consent since 1945: ■ j south from Gizcnga’s Oriental (Chemical and Atomic Workers) Crown Zellerbach plant manager
« 11 mm Province stronghold for their (Union (AFL-CIO). [Art Aronsen gave the follow ing
.......... 4 •D ow bloodless conquest.
their(Union (AFL-CIO).
After two and one-half days of account of the
Luluabourg is just 110 miles j reportedly profitable bargaining, [stand:
'At the end" of the negotiating
40.000
sa'caa!northeast of the 'Congo-Portu-(officials ceased negotiations when)
“J'-nn j guese Angola border and if the (agreement could not be reached in session Friday, both parties ac-
a iS? i rebels left behind them firm |*2 basic areas of dispute. .One of jknowledged that all but 14 issues
9,000 jjnRS Qf supply and communioa j foe major stumbling blocks ap- in the current negotiaiohs had
■ 47,500 tkms 'they have nearly cut the Peared to be the question of sen-(had been resolved. The parties
9.-000 Congo in'half jiority of returning employes. (agreed that discussion of one of
18,000J Apparent defection of supposed-. Another question of prime im-jthese 14 issues — wages — should
197.000 jy local troops to Girerrga. pq- portance centered a round a re- be deferred until all other pro-
1/3,000 ijtical heir to the slain ex-Premier quest for check-off of union dues., visions have been agreed upon.
10.000; Patrice Lumumba, sent a jolt of|lhis proposal' would require pay-1Consequently there has been ino
11.000 alarm through th,e Leopoldville ■ roll deduct.ons of union dues. (discussion of wage rates to date.
207,000: government " ';' ) Some 45 maintenance and pro- "At the beginning of Friday
10.0001 About 1,000 U.N. Ghanaian sol- lection personnel went on _ strike'morning’s negotiating session, the
110.000 diers stationed in and. -around j®* Western-Waxide Division company, * with a view toward
-- -• facility here on Feb. 9. During the1
35^484 Luluabourg were under strict or-
POST
SCRIPTS
to the
NEWS
Beaumont, Port Arthur
Dope Hing Cracked
By BOB AXF.LSON
interim, period since the strike be- j
gan, the plant has continued toi
operate.
E. R. McAdams, spokesman fori
the OCAW in the absence of]
George Cowart, international union
represen at ive, gave the following
account of the union's present
stand;
"Negotiations were broken off
by management when the union re-
fused to alter its proposal any
further until, management showed
an indication that the major con-
tract issues could be settled on an
(honorable basis. That is. on the
present company
(See STRIKE. Page
County Bridge
Construction
Unprotested
The proposed construction of!
MISS ORANGE CROWNED BY OUTGOING QUEEN*' P"0'9 * ™ C,rVtm
Diana Ketchell Succeeds Sharon Arnold
BEAUMONT (AP)— Climaxing,narcotics agents bought opium in
a carefully planned and executed por( Arthur Thursday and made
( investigation, into the Sale of nar-|pian5 to puy a much larger quan-j
jrotics into Jefferson County, po- tity last night
(lice and federal narcotics agents frour Port Arthur men were same “basis’as* these clauses are (three Orange County bridges
It's getting close to that time of (arrested 21 persons Friday night, j arraigned before U. S. Comr. Jack (written-into other legitimate union across Adams' Bayou has thus far
year again when Orange County! The officers said they were in;Brookshire today. They are listed contracts in this area. gone unprotested at the U.S. Corps
patrons in the eight independent (possession of 449,800 milligrams of las Leon Hander&on '31; LeRovI "Up to this point the company'of Engineers District office in Gal-
•cbod districts and the one com-j opium as a result. The. Stuff hadjteBlance, 26; Max West, 62; and (has refused to disclose their pro- veston.
tnon district- will go to the polls an underworld retail value of $24,- j Thomas A. Fulford. 31. jposal on wages. Some, but-not all, The three new structures are a
II to decide on true-1000 to $36,000. The other 17 persons arrested of the ma jor issues remaining to I part of the county's $6,445,000 road
IS tee candidates. The arrests, cracked a big nap(included some women. Two are be settled include seniority, wages, j building program. They are to be
As is custom-(cotics. ring in this area, police ) suspected -by police of planning check-off of union du&s, duties of [ constructed on West Park Avenue,
ary. in this part j said. fto hijack' a'dope peddler and a employes, employe benefits and | Main Street and Western Avenue) Dj Ketchel, 30-vear-oid annual Miss Orange contest mon
ol Texas at least. The'arrests came after a series narcotics agent, who made »Mon leaves of absence. where each crosses the bayou. United Gas Co clerk here cap-!sor“d bv localJavcw^ ^
there are squab-pf widespread raids in Beaumont! | “Moral of strikers is high and Countv Commissioner’s Court4iir<^ thk ttwi u
There^ ^oearty Arthur after a -.<?*? Page !$) strike benefits of 335 or more per. ms\ required to make individual (Friday night in a televised beauty ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. j°Freyou
application for each bridge con-(and talent pageant staged in the!of 340 E. Park Ave. The Miss Or-
i«#totifinc thatIC J | . . *r f ' [Struction after protests were j Stark ‘ High School auditorium. |ange title ’is the third beauty con-
] ~MI~~ 71 goes cm when al)pG/lO Letters, I elegTOmS wlt:h th« Corps of .Engineers | -Miss Ketchell is 5 feet. 5 inches.) test which Miss Ketchell has
^hS£EmUhe§1 *3 9 ' i iS T1 O t leonrmn nr\»v\rt>oi«rtr Aumoro „ i a~ -l. ^ ... i • — cm. _ tafn * •
Diana Ketchell
Beauty, Talent
bles.
nothing morel
virulent than the)
b
goes on when all
ma is . not peace,
SfiNdjfa, .* J h a rim o n v and
^iXFuiiN “* healthy interest
AXELSUN among trustees
or the board and its chief adminis-
trator.
There is at least one example of
this type of condition being mani-
fested by the heat and strikes of
lightning flashing over Bridge City
I don’t know who’s right or wrong
But in the settlement of this par-
ticular dispute, and others similar
to it, there is always a penalty at-
tached. Regardless of location, the
penalty is always inflicted on the
children in the school system.
In situations like these every-
thing Is done or said to benefit
the children. That's the prime
motivating force—naturally. Per-
sonality conflicts, bruised egos, a
desire to dominate and drive
newer enter Into the matter.
It’s true that too much harmony
tan lead to stagnation-as the late
Byron Simmons used to say. But In
matters of school prctolems in this
county at least, I’ll take all the har-
•’g&'S.S district, with tj»
possible exceptions, has all the
money problems it can handle and
then some without being concerned
(See P.S., Page IS)__
Rep. Haynes Urges Citizens To Stand Up, Speak
Captures
Pageant
East Texas. In the 1959 Miss Or-
ange pageant, Miss Ketchell waj
rurmer-up, :
Placement of the other four fin-
alists were; Charlotte Richardson,
2214 Link Ave., second runner-up;
(by attorney Richard Lea. repre-(weighs 115 pounds, has'brown Jyes Jshe was TlEs'Water s£rt°toj!$Jd rSV-ro-^(S^Gr^der'
‘.seating five property owners. - (and dark brown hair. She, won, 1959 and also in that year was OranJXkrid
Previously, the Commissioner’s (out over four finalists in the third named Miss Service Station of1-' - - — - —**- *
CLEAR
Data From U.S. Weothor Buroou
OUTLOOK—Genorally fair -{me worm to
Soy IncrMSIno cloudiness and mild tomor.
row. High today 7J, Southwesterly winds
0-17 m.p.h. becoming Southerly 12-20 to-
morrow.
TIDES—Sabine: ttlgtii 41:07 am , 2:23
g.m.; low. J:59 a.m„ 7:27 p.m Bolivar:
high, 12:15 a.m., 3:31 p.nrt.; low, 7:55
B.m.. 9:23 p.m.
SUN—rises «:44 o.m., 6:14 p.m.
TIDES- Sobind. high, 11:57 a.ni.. 7:45
B.m.; low, 6:35 a m., .7:34 p.m. Bollva'r:
high, 1:05 o.m., 3.53 p.m.; low, (1:31 o.|n,.
#i30 p.m.
SUN—rises 6:44 a m., sets 6:14 p.m.
YESTERDAY — temperatures, high 67,
taW 35.
EDITOR'S NOTE—This Is the first In
o series of weekly articles prepared by
Mrs. Pat Todd of Vidor tor Rep. Clyde
Havnes Jr. of Q-ar.ge County on activi-
ties of the 57tf! Texas Legislature now
In session In Austin. They will Incorporate
legislative news of special Interest to
county residents. The column will run
every Sdnday In The Leader.
"Being (he representative
to the people of Texas. This is
coupled with aims of still retiring
the deficit and instituting a broad
base tax program which will
meet the needs of the state.
Many bills will be studied this
week. Included is House Bill No. 4
which would permit the people of
(ffgMWM
voice for 60,000 residents of Or-(Texas to vote on amending the
ange County is a big responsibility.
In order to conform to the mean-
ing of the word ‘representative’ I
Texas Constitution so that nine
specific counties can hold option
elections to permit pari - mutuel
feel strongly that I must hear from j horse race betting. Orange County ;
the people by card, letter or tele-) is not included as 1 of the 9.
gram. I must know their views on House Bill No. 61 is a dairy san-
each issue,” Rep. Haynes said Ration law, It would force' milk
He feels he should vote the j producers from other states send-
thinking of the people and cannot! ing such dairy pr(>ducts into Texas
do this unless they inform him of p, conform to the same sanitation
their views. All correspondence is
kept, on file in his office at Austin.
A tally is kept on the number of
persons.,for or against a bill. The
results are a big factor in voting
on each bill as presented. Mail can
reach Haynes at House of Repre-
sentatives, Austin, Tex.
There are 33 standing legislative
committees and the Orange Coun-
ty representative serves on five.
Included are game and fisheries,
labor, conservation and reclama-
tion, banks and banking and feder-
al relations.
Haynes noted yesterday that the
game and fisheries, labor and con-
to conform to the same sanitation
(See HAYNES, Page 13)
REP. CLYDE HAYNES JR.
Court had requested permission
to build the proposed bridges with-
out making an individual r.-quest CwLn f"Ywr> C*ricic
for each specific crossing of. th» \SWil v( ijla
bayou.
Recent correspondence from the!
Lea law,office indicates tliat‘‘pro-1
tests will not be entered against)
the county’s present construction
program. The attorney pointed out
that the group was not in opposi-
tion to the bridges or roads pro-
posed by the county. The opposi-
tion was with regard to how the
manner of approval from the
Ina Jean Lockart, 2 Circle F, Rose-
|lawn, fifth runner-up.
j Graceann Lindsey, 604 Elm Ave.,
i was chosen as Miss Congeniality
i through a vote of the 15 .original
•contestants. She received a charm
: bracelet.
A crown symbolical of Miss
NeieheH’s reign through 1961 was
■' placed on her head by Sharon Arm
(old, Miss Orange of 1960, to the
j acompanying applause of some
, „ . i 500 - present. Miss Ketchell cap-
MOSCOW (AP)—Premier Khru-jtha Congo bring them home andjtured the title for her beauty,
sbehev Saturday stepped into the (then form, a conciliation commis- poise and graccy intelligence and
Soviet campaign" to force thejsion to deal with the Congo’s war-)talent.
Nikita Joins Soviet Campaign
To Force U.N. To Leave Congo
Corps of Engineers could affect (United Nations out of the Congo (ring factions. Thus they would try
future structures crossing the iand demanded that African na-
bam- tions. solve the crisis alone.
The three bridges are a part of ]
a channel improvement proiect! The essence of his plan, reject-
which will eliminate some eight ed by the U. N. Security Council
(earlier last week, is to have Af-
(See BRIDGES, Page 13) firican states with U. N. forces in
No Recession Noted in Orange Trade Area
editors NOTE-rhis is a new reader economy, the volume of business (growing number of people who (right quick,
ofth* Konomic^“Sofioa in*heOra^* '.average, is only-holding its own come Into their, establishments,
» I None of the lines of business- con-,^nd, some timeJoeking ;_around,
Irlallsli by stall members of the news- (tacted by The Leader tn last|aA(t I
paper. week’s Survey reported any sig-jfhtng
, There is on0, economic-recession,^, and ,fepracticaUy mer-r. ...
m Orange tad ite trMt ar a. Cjlants foresaw a pickup in buM-!increase - in the number of inquir-
c---:---------- -------- Business c rdtes “"tacted ^ ness just ahead. lies about materials for *model-
servation and reclamat.on commit-j Mat* I., Easter buying - reported slowing. That .doesn’t put any^ money
But they were concerned about '
As of last week, there still was
-__. _____ . ... . - .... • i For her talent. Miss Ketchell
ini t hp - e sLh®Ut 4 m.'1,.tar>'i presented a variety act titled,
toice W back up their decisions t.The Thret> FacetsJ of D,ana.. cli.
In addition, he suggested that:maxed bv a serious reading from
the commission be instructed in Jeanne d'Arc '
advance to deal with the Comma- j c, , ", ^
nist backed rebel regime Tn Stan- , £a^en private modeling
leyville as the Congo’s legal *ov-1S’^ atte^d^ u’Z TtadT
ernment because it is headed bv s. Lamar teen..
political heirs of the slain ex-Pre- Ketchell s future plans include
mie.r Patrice Lumumba. furthering her training m modeling
... .. ..... . t , and opening a modeling ana charm
Using the killing of Lumumba (SchoJ in 0ra e
as a w.edge to renew his attack; „ . . ,, ,
on Dag Hammarskjold, Khru-1 Upon winning the ti«e hw «nn-
shchev charged the U. N, secre-:^)’^ W_asy
tary-general was to
tees are vepy active. Numerous
bills are "referred to these commit-
tees. For example, 11 different
bills on game fisheries were heard
at one meeting last week. On sev-
eral occasions committee mem-
bers have worked until a'most the newspapers and hearing on
midnigh)1.
People visiting the House of Rep-
resentatives might think there is
little interest shown by members
’ x. 2)v v L , *
o, k.y bankers, fiuslnfessmen and Indus- ^ by^Ttk dTTjn Tasl^d ^ aw/ay without buying any-
„8’, „ ,, (Commission reported a slight in-1 murderer ” "'ll feel like this will open the door
Said one, retailer of building sup-}Crease in its claims for unemploy-j , 1 ... , 'to opportunity and 'success for
plies, “There has been a pleasing meat compensation, indicating a Most of his fire was directed at me ,,
few less people were working than|”“*Jfr*kJ®*<|i 5L ?h(?Wt!!!LcLnf i The Miss Garbage contest.- an.
had jobs a week previous. , in° ‘ ittferest-building show as an addtx^
„■ ' r . . . . Wearrt attra^km-.'^tidied bew-
But TEC also pointed to nevvjgtans for failmg to get out of tne, ■ ■ ,, Howard William*
jobs opening up’ in industry and I Congo and continuing to support ^ #or *,ef.
said there is at present no trend .Katanga President Moise Tshom- vas "hosen M,ss LxarPage tar her .
to indicate that joblessness. here be and at Tshombe as ‘‘hang-
will climb to anywhere near the J man” of Lumumba and the ”pyp-
prpportions of’ those areas of the. pet” of Belgium. ' ,
country which have generated re- ' “AH this Wrecks the trust, of the )
cession talk in Washington and peoples in the United Nations,"
elsewhere. ' • ihe said.
what one retailer termed a “scare
factor” which is creeping into the
local economy because of things
the consumers here are reading in
newscasts about the national re-
cession. /
Bankers and retailers* told The
Leader this is leading to a degree
thus, far despite the early Easteri'in B*e’ cas*1 register'right now but
this year — is beginning and is re- ijL Is a prelude to good sales in the
fleeted tfiostly in layaways. (immediate future.”
And there, f a harbinger of) Banker^ and merchants alike
spring in the‘air for several lines (blame bad weather for a part of
of merchandise. This has been1 de-(the failure of business to keep
tccted by businessmen from a P*ce with payroll dollars in the
iOrange trade area.
on the floor. However, much study [of caution in local consumer buy-
is given each'bill in committee ing which is slowing down the flow
___ II..______ n. LI - f m t tUi.mink Arn n Wt 11- IM, , - <\
sessions, Haynes said.
Haynes had lunch with Gov.
Price Dafliel last week at the gov-
ernor’s mansion.. He and six oth-
er /representatives discussed pend
ing tax measures with the gover-
nor. Haynes said Gov. Daniel is
of money through Orange business
channels and piling it up in savings
accounts.
It also is pushing up the average
figure bn individual checking ac-
counts in the local banks.
The result is that while the gretit-
seeking all opinions on proposed:ist number of payroll dollars ever
tax legislation and wants to be fair tars flowing into the Orange area
P. A. Mattingly, president of
Marine & Petroleum Supply Co.’
af Orange, announced yesterday
that the company had distribut-
ed January 1961 bonus checks.
This represents the 18th con-
secutive month that the com-
pany has achieved its monthly
profit quota since the bonus
incentive plan was Introduced
n August 1959, Mattingly said.
! But the big problem, they
agreed, is overcoming the fear of
consumers with money to spend
about a recession, here and to get
them to buying at a normal rate.
(See PAGEANT, Page 13)
orange Juice I
ANY' PARENT KNOWS
sum, the area’s ecotWmJ Khrushchev’s platform was ’aiMyftta totakes a ffiSSS
this note: Bu^J letter to Prime Minister Nehru of than going to bed, it s knowing
In sum, the area’s
B S*»E£i a*’
were not. a little frightened bv re- day mormne at the front door ofjTreda Dunn drove a the way 4o
One businessman phrased it this (Cession news from elsewhere. Andjthe Soviet' Foreign M-mstry. drenham^E r J. '_• « > *®
wav, "If we can just get our peo»(business, tnen were ■ looking' for ih.- not- was a'-o distrfbWd to; J',' rp^.,Lai
(pie to realize'the banks here are;"ays to overcome thij problem government chiefs in Asia, \frica. ^ tne^ regional
STS!
business would take a big jumpition. I _ (See N1KJTA, Page 13) iltnals. v
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