The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 7, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 8, 1956 Page: 1 of 39
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lashed, Black Imitation Fur Coat
Presents Mystery to Area Officers
Orange police list night with the Ttxu tide of U S
the assistance of Calcasieu Par-
iah, La., deputy sheriffs i were
ghecking to determine whether or
#ot I murder was tied up with
Ihe recovery of a slashed, black
imitation fur coat.
Behind the discovery and sub-
sequent disappearance of the coat
Is a tangled report bf peculiar cir-
cumstances which- go beyond the
routine. It all began innocently
though-With a fishing trip under-
neath the Sabine River bridge on
POST
SCRIPTS
to the =
NEWS
By BOB AXELSON
~Pay raises for r*ny public »m
afternoon.
Two Orange men reported the
odd facts and were later question-
ed by police. They are Jacob Zie-
gler, 105^ Moreell, end Eddie Sni-
der, 404 Schley. Both were along
the river bank fishing about 4 p.m.
m
Insurance
■
ttempts
Friday when they spotted a black
coat floating in the" river about 10
feet from the bank
Pulling the coat to shore after
repeated casts with a plug, they
spread-it out on the bank. The
ee-quarter length garment, re-
new, was slashed down
several times. On exam-
ining the pockets the two found a.
tube of.lipstick, movie stubs-from
the Paramount Theater in Lake
Charles and about 16 or 80 cents
in change. --i,
, Ziegler explained yesterday, “It
was slit several times down the
j back and that was the only pari
! damaged. I don’t believe anyone
j would throw away a coat partic-
ularly with money in the pockets.”
While the two were examining
The Orange Leader' ?*
VOL LIU
Member Associated Press
ORANGE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY I, 1956
34 Pages
NUMBER 7
Steel Plant Strike 'Distinct
iilni / Jan.,, i‘i mimiuV I thl1 rftai—fln unidentified’' man
** 52?* waik^lupandq^
or city, are tn the mam always r„„ii~t
Justified. As a class, such work-
ers are always underpaid with
v salaries one or
tj»o steps behind
their fishing luck. They replied
they had “just fished out this
coat." >~
The man replied, “That’s just
Fort Worth Area
Instructed About
'Mystery Plane'
FORT WORTH, Jan. 7 (AP)
A transcontinental B-36 bomber
carrying an atomic'reactor is
j r'^ what I’m looking for," with that he j making flights in the For* Worth
busin ss and proceeded to pick up the coat, re- J area, and police officials Here have
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idustry.
Working With
John Q. Public J
as your boss at
times can be the
most exasperat-
ing condition in
the world. That
old familiar
complaint of"
“I’m a taxpayer
and know my
rights or variations of the same I
theme are heard many times in j
the course of a year. Putting it j
frankly, it gets real old. Not that
the taxpayer shouldn’t receive, ef-
ficient, court eons service, but that
people being people, the business
of courtesy is a two-way street
What this is working down to
move a lipstick from
(See COAT, Page
Snider's
ID
Axelsoit
Call Junction
Man Is Injured
In Vidor Wreck
VIDOR (Spl) — Johnny hum-
mus, 49-year-old resident of Call
Junction, hung to life by a thread
in Hotel Dieu Hospital at Beau-
mont last midnight as the result
of Orange County’s worst traffic
tragedy sp far this year.
He was struck down while
walking along Highway 90 about
employes on the county pay-
roll. The last such raise granted
gounty employes came in 1953.
highway patrolmen termed
j ’Very unusual accident.”
Unfortunately.' the cost of livTn* i'.---Delm* P’. Clayt.on 38< o{ Lib*r-
in the Gulf rtw*, * ,tv- w*s driver of the car which
In the Gulf Coast area doesn’t re-
main constant, it rises like every-
thing else.
Aside from this factor, the
normal gap between county
wages and those of local In-
dustries widened even further,
JKHIk. some exceptions, your
staff of courthouse employe*
and those on the regular county
rolls are anxious and willing to
do a good job. I have no quarrel
with their desire for a raise or
the court* willingness to pro-
vide for one — provided *the
money is available.
I’m sure the money will Ik*
forthcoming but it will crimp a
pinched budget even further.
There is some reason to believe
that the decision was reached
without prior consultation with
County Auditor James F. Houli-
han Jr. He is a subscriber to The
Leader and l would have given
struck Lummus, but only after it
had turned over one and one-half
times in an effort to avoid the ac-
cident, Patrolman Shirley " Swift
reported.
Clayton told officers he was
! driving westward along Highway
90 and noticed that Lummus was
walking toward him on the north
side of the highway, but sudden-
! ly Lummus ran ihto the path of
| his car and there was no way to
avoid hitting him. Other witnesses
bore out Clayton's story of Lum-
I mus’ unexplained action.
! Clayton locked the brakes of
I his 1953 Plymouth sedan imtne-
j diately, it turned oyer, but still
couldn't keep from hitting the f
pedestrian. ,j
Lummus was rushed to Hotel j said,
Dieu Hospital in Beaumont, but
his china- for sunriwel were de-
scribed as slim Clayton’s car suf-
fered $500 damage, according to
been alerted on what to do in
case the grant plane should crash
or be forced to make an unsche-
duled landing, a high police offi-
cer said today.
The reactor is believed to be
a power device rather than an
explosive, the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram said.
A high police official here said
today that the instructions par-
ticularly are aimed at hnW to
handle crowds which might gath-
er at the crash scene.
“We have been told to keep
crowds at least a quarter mile
away from the scene,” he said
The official asked that his name
not be used.
He said the B-36 had flown only
once or twice and that the instruc-
tions on how to handle the crowds
had come from Convair aircraft
plant security officers.
Officials at Convair and Cars-
well Air Force Base consistently
have refused to confirm or deny
the flights. ‘
August C. Esenwein, Convair
vice president and manager of the
Fort Worth division said, “The Air
Force is restricting any and all
press releases, We positively can
say nothing about the matter.”
A Carswell spokesman had only
a dry “no comment" to make
when questioned.
Another high police official said
officers have not been given any
details as to what kind of device
is in the plane or what it wiU
be us^d for.
“They haven’t, even told us if
the plane looks different from any
other B-36,” he said. “All they tell
us is when the plane is flying."
The instructions to police were
sent out about two months ago be
Possibility'
Machinists
Hr-
Reject ABD
Package Deal
—teadar Photo by Bob AxetSon
BL’CKET BEATER DELUXE—Is Mrs. H. W. Thompson of Plnehurst Heights as a petticoat brigade
from the Business and Professional Womens Club took over downtown street corners yesterday to
solicit donations for the countywide March of Dimes polio campaign. The women’s group was the
first civic organization to man the buckets ttfis year for the drive which ends Jan. 31. An estimated
$400 to $450 was contributed by downtown Vic
tomorrow. v „
hoppers and motorists. An accurate coupt will be made
anything to see’TlU face when the Swift and Patrolman Claude
Bearden, investigating officer.
article was read. It boils down to
a ease of he’s the guv who will
“actually have to dig up the
money.”
After discussions with court-
house sources yesterday,- I have
no doubt the funds will be forth-
coming. There are several likely
Sources mentioned as possibilities.
Included are (1) about $4,000 ad-
ditional exnected from a greater
Volume of business in the county
clerk's office through regular fees,
(2) about $12,500 more antici-
pated through fees charged by
the district attorney’s o f f i c e,
which were upped from $10 to
(See P.S., Page 11)
In another highway accident
last night Mrs. Patsy Jeaftst 19.
of Mauriceville, received first aid
Calf Auction
To Aid Drive
The Orange Jaycees will spon-
sor a Chinese auction of a calf
Malloy Named
‘Som% Damned Fool’
Chairman Here t. «*»
For Ike Dinner
treatment in Orange City Hospital j the lat!er P**"* 'T'ont*l an^
Old Poll Tax Receipts
Are Good in January
Persons voting in the three
water-sewer district ejections
Tuesday in Bridge City, West Or-
ange and Vidor will use their1954
poll tax receipts to guarantee them
a ballot.
Those 1954 poll taxes will be
for multiple cuts and bruises
which she suffered when the car!
driven by her husband, James D. j
.Teahs, 20, failed to negotiate the !
turn from Highway 90 onto Old
Highway 62.
It struck a stop sign, went sev- I
eral hundred feet down the ditch j
adjacent to the railroad tracks, j
turned over and skidded several i
more feet.
Jeans was knocked out of the ]
car on the initial lmoact, but was j
unhurt. Patrolmen Bearden a n d j
Swift booked him in the county
jail for driving while intoxicated.
proceeds will benefit the March
dinner scheduled
Houston Club in Houston, it was
announced yesterday.
Scheduled at 7 p.m , it is one
of 53 such tributes to President
Eisenhower on the third anniver-
sary of his inauguration being held
over the nation on the same night
Planned before Mr. Eisenhower's
Frank Malloy, Orange ship-
buUding executive, has beta ap-
pointed as the local chairnr* fori «““*• I001" s»’»nte« to race,
giant “Sftjute to EisanhoaLr’’? , George N. Craig 41s-
Jan. 20 at the 1 closed Re radioed ahead to State
Airman Joseph Cormier, tl,
Tucson. Arix., was fined $30.50
yesterday after he said he
speeded up to 90 miles an hour
boeauao he thought "some
damned fool” wanted to
Police when his car was unable
to pass Cormier’s as the gover-
nor drove to Terre Haute on
U.S. 40 for a speech.
Craig said Cormier speeded
up "when the governor's car
tried to pass.”
of Dimes, Paul Skinner, projectJ recent illness, it is expected that
chairman, said yesterday.
The auction will be at 10 a m.
on 5th Street between Green and
Main Streets. The calf will be
obtained by Sheriff Chester A.
Holts, Skinner added.
Winner of the calf may have it
cut, wrapped and stored for 30
days by Lance Wingate Meat Mar-
ket. If barbecue is preferred, the
winner will be accommodated by
Garrett's Barbecue.
Sid J. Ca ilia vet, former mayor
of Orange, will auction the ani-
mal.
a capacity crowd of 1,200 will at-
tend the $100-per-plate Houston
dinner. Tickets locally are avail-
able from Malloy.
, Agriculture Sec. Ezra Taft Ben-
son will be the principal speaker
for the Eisenhower dinner which
will be preceded by a reception at
the Houston Club. The nation-
wide dinners will be linked „
gether by a closed-circuit telecast I
marking the first use of this me- j
diurn for political purposes.
Tax Collection
Termed Good
Today's Rodeo
Helps Drive
Against Folio
Nearly 65 per cent of the cur-
rent tax roll or $289,450.66 of the ;
Orange Independent School Dis-
trict has been collected. Mrs, Win-
, nie Grice, school tax collector, an-
to- j nouneed yesterday.
The 1955 roll was $471,765 and
the collection figure cited by Mrs.
Grice was effective as of the close
of business Dec. 31 In addition
A number of feature acts are
on the program which will be pre-
sented by the Orange County Jun-
ior and Senior Sheriff Fosse’s ro-
deo which will be presented this
afternoon at the posse arena on
Old Highway 90, to benefit the
March of Dimes.
Beginning at 2:30, the program
Will include pantomimes by Jim-
my Headrick, West Orange artist,
and a dance by Mary Dell Adams,
student of the Ingram School of
Dance.
Regular rodeo numbers will in-
clude a ribbon race by the junior
posse, and a flag race by,the jun-
ior posse boys.
The senior posse will perform
in a broom polg match, flag race
and barrel race.
Open competition will be offer-
ed in a barrel race and calf rop-
ing for which contestants will
furnish their own stock.
By BOB AXEL SON
The threat of a new walkout af-
American bridge Division
plant here by AFL-CIO machin-
ists became a distinct possibility
last night with! rejection of a
American Bridgte Division pack-
age proposal. - , i
. Members of District 31 of the
International Assn, of Machinists
in a meeting yesterday afternoon
at the courthouse declined to ac-
cept the offer. Company spokes-
men last night ,said wage provi-
At Late Hour
WACO. Jan, f TAP) — A. &
Shoemike, whose bank-insurance
company collapsed owing craftart
seven hnilllon dollars, shot himaelf
tonight in what his personal phy-
attempt He
sician called a suicide i
still was living at a late hour.
Shoemake staggered to the door
of his ornate home, blood stream*'
ing down his body, when a neigh- |
.....A
called Shoemakers personal physi-
cian, Dr. Boyd Alexander. When
the doctor gill "
-mW-m sitTihgrin a chair.
sions were the customary “5 and
1(T rate” increase which provided
the basis for settlement by five
other AFL-CIO craft unions rep-
resented at the local plant.
However, the membership in-
structed Johnnie Foster, district
business agent, and the five-mem-
ber negotiating committee to re-
turn to negotiations with a Fed-
eral Mediation and Councilation
Service representative. The sug-
gestion was made in an effort “to
secure some possible changes to
make an acceptable offer before a
strike would be declared.”
In this connection, a further
meeting between the machinists’
local and company representatives
is scheduled tomorrow at 2 p.m.
In a last-ditch attempt aLsettle-
ment. A string also was attached
on the company offer Which has
to be accepted by a Wednesday
deadline. After that time it is
withdrawn, /
Foster in Issuing a news release
on the outcome of the machinist
meeting had this comment, “Our
110 members at American Bridge
have as yet not been pleased and
will strike if necessary.”
npli
ele
Foster’s release which bore his
typed signature is as follows:
"After a meeting yesterday
(Friday) that lasted late last
night, the company finally pre-
sented the machinists’ union with
a complete counter-proposal
which was given the form of a
package and with the further ref-
erence that the proposal' had to
be accepted by Jan. 11, 1956, or
it would be withdrawn.
“This package proposal was
presented to our membership to-
day (Saturday afternoon) at 1
p.m. at the Orange County Court-
house. It was read article by arti-
(See TALKS, Page 11)
Taylor Introduced
To Hospital Board
ready was begirmingHo
The shooting occurred about
7:15 p-m. He. left at least three
written notes, one of which the
doctor described as a “suicide
note.™- •, (
::: His life was insured for one mil-
lion dollars. The beneficiary’ is
his defunct firm, U. S. Trust and
Guaranty Co. Presumably tho
money will go to the creditors un-
der the receivership if he dies.
The life insurance is held by sev-
eral companies.
An ambulance arrived at 7:»
p.m. Shoemakr was taken to Hill-
crest Hospital and immediately to
the X-ray room.
Dr. Alexander said that his
chances of survival were "slim.”
Lt. Ira Royals of the Waco po-
lice department, chief investigator
on the scene, said Shoemake was
shot through the temple with a
.38 caliber pistol.
Dr. Alexander said, the bullet
entered the right side of Shoe-
make’s head between the temple
and the eye and came out at the
same position on the left side. He
said there were powder bums on
the right side.
The physician, who had attend-
ed Shoemake for 20 years, said bo
first asked the insurance execu-
tive if he felt any pain. Shoemake
said he did not
Dr. Alexander asked him, “Did
yoa do it yourself?"
Shoemake gave no answer.
By 8:30 p.m., Shoemake would
(See SHOOTS SELF, Page 11)
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Water Boards
Study Rates
For Projects
One Orange County water board
feet other
another has
study, it was
yesterday.
commercial users, and
ts the proposal under
reported reliably
Orange County Water Control
Dismc
, , was marked by brief addresses
Admission will be a donation, by Taylor who cited the joint re-
?i° ie^ J>0J0r Expedition Ship sized, that someone could buv the
Unloads Equipment in Antarctica animal for $1. The winner is
MOSCOW, Jan. 7 (AP) — Ra- ! selected by a clock alarm going off
dio messages received here report- at a time unknown to anyone un-
ed the diesel-electric flagship of i til it occurs.
used until Feb. 1 when the 1955'*dn Antarctica.
the Soviet polar expedition, the
Ob, is now unloading equipment
President Eisenhower and mem-
It is possible, Skinner empha- ^ of his cabinet are scheduled delinquent tax collections from .
to appear on the telecast, to be I Oct. 1, 1955, were reported at
Seen at thp dinners only from ij j $25,119.57. The School district bud- i
to 9:30 p.rfi. Stars of the enter-[ get was based on 85 per cent eol-
tairtment world also will appear lections with a rate of 62 cents
on the 30-minute prograrn. „ ; per each $100 of valuation.
to the March of Dimes.
polls come into effect. Persons
having no 1954 receipts and only
the 1955 receipts, will not be al-
lowed to vote in the specified ]
elections.
The vessel reached its destina-
tion in Depot Bay after penetra-
ELLENDKR CHALLENGES IKE
WASHINGTON. Jan. -7 (AP)—
W. H. Francis Jr„ chairman of i “We are very pleased with our ed after the midnight deadline
No Absentee Votes
Cast in Elections
No absentee votes were report- j and hospital operators.
the. Texas Republican finance | collections to date and it marks
and Improvement District No. 1,
Vidor, has tentatively adopted a
resolution advocating the change
in rates and Orange County Wa-
ter Control and Improvement dis-
trict No. 3, Bridge City, has the
proposal under advisement.
It was reported reliably that
the Vidor board passed the reso-
lution setting up the rates, follow-
ing a conference Thursday night
with Floyd Aubin, executive di-'
rector of' the city and county
housing authorities.
Commercial rates are being set
“social get-together,” ) up for projects including a mini-
j v_i_. - j j mum number of houses getting
water through a master (or sin-
gle) meter. Sewer rates may be
changed for the same type of de-
velopment. &
Vidor Chairman Luther L.
Smith, contacted yesterday, de-
clined to Confirm the report but
said that if new rates are estab-
lished, they will be published in
The Leader sometime this week.
The formal presentation of Joe
Taylor, administrator of the $2,-
500,Q00 Orange Memorial Hos-
pital, was made Friday night in a
joint meeting of the Orange
County Medical Society and board
of hospital managers.
The dinner meeting, labeled asj
purely a ------- ’ " ' '
sponsibility of the board and
physicians to Insure the best
possible care for patients and Dr,
Leo J. Peters Jr., medical society
president. Peters in a similarly
brief talk stressed the necessity
of cooperation between doctors
i
committee and Jack Porter, GOP
Sen. Ellender (D-La) today chat- ! national committeeman both from
longed President Eisenhower and
ting several hundred yards into [ Secretary of Agriculture Benson
the edge of the ice pack, the re- j to “keep the new farm legislation
ports stated. | out 0f partisan politics.”
Port Transfer, Bids, Street Re-naming
Full Agenda Faces City Commission Tuesday Night
Consideration of an all-import-
ant resolution transferring port
properties to the new county navi-
gation district, bids on equipment
and a Sunset Addition street re-
naming program will be among
the agenda items considered Tues-
day night by the Orange City
Commission
In equipment purchases, bids
Will be opened on the acquisition
of two packer-type garbage bodies
and a street maintainer. City Mgr.
Qene Gatlin said yesterday that
three bids probably will be re-
ceived on the twb 16-cubie yard
units to be mounted on existing
garbage department trucks
He also added that four bids
probably will be received on a
115 horsepower diesel engine-op-
erated road gfader equipped with
a 12-foot blade. The bid adver-
tisement included a tradeln of
an existing city grader, at least
15 years old, which stays bro-
[ Today's Weather |
V Dili ftn U.S. Wt»lh«r Burin
Foricut lor Orkngt »nd vicinity-~Cl«»r
to portly Cloudy through tomorrow. Colder
tddgy with high temperature beweeti 53-
|l. A little wermer tomorrow. North to
BOrhMit wind! Id to M mph today, dl-
mdnlihlng tonight and eaattrly 12 to-Id
mph tomorrow.
tldeo—flobln*. high 1:12
•ad 10:2* p.m.,. low t:M *.m. and
$:»
m. Bolivar, high- 2:42 p.m. and 11H
1:21 a.m. afnd 0:21 p.m.
p.m. Bollv
p.m., low 1 ■
Tomorrow'! tidoa—Bablna, high 2:dt p.m.
11:10 p.m., low 1:22 a.m. and 1*2
p.m. Bolivar,
4:11pm., low 1:01
rar, high
*"aiin*^lM« today at 1:12 a.m. and get*
M tin p.m.
ken ddwn most of the time. Both i paying it over the lO-ylar pe-
equipincnt purchases came up for
discussion at the December coun-
cil meeting. At that time Gatlin
had advised a lease purchase ar-
rangement. Commissioners, notab-
ly George Colburn, emphasized
it was a capital expenditure not
covered by the budget and dif-
ferent financing j arrangement
should be worked
1 l
riod. City commissioners have
pointed out time and time again
they have no legal right to give
anything which is owned by the
entire municipality.
On the other hand the naviga-
tion and port district in its initial
year is running short on funds un-”
til the 15-cent maintenance and
operation tax money’starts com-
A resolution calling for trans- j jug in this fall. Mutually satis-
fer of port properties to the new- . factory arrangements probably
ly-created navigation district is i wjil be worked out on the ques-’
being worked out by City Atty. j tion of garbage dumping. An ease-
Marlfn Thompson and Frank W. j rnent is being sought to permit
Hustmyre, lawyer for the county j
board. In preparation for this
Houston, are dinner co-chairmen.
They have predicted it will be
the largest political dinner meet-
ing in Texas history.
Tax Office To Be
Open on Saturdays
The county tax collector-asses-
sor office will be open until noon
during the last- three Saturdays
this month as a convenience to
Orange County residents desiring
to obtain poll tax receipts.
"We will begin next Saturday,
Jan. 14. with the office opening
at 8 a.m. and closing at noon.1
one of our best years to date in
district history. We certainly ap-
preciate the cooperation extend-
ed by property owners and urge
others to come in as soon as
possible to avoid the last week
rush before the Jan. 31 deadline,”
Mrs. Grice commented.
The school tax collector also
inted out that contrary to past
wi“j is£r srsSl
District No. 1, Vidor, will have;j guests. The first regular meeting i mercial rental properties as well.
its election at the Vidor Subcourt-1 of Taylor with the hospital board ~ ” ' ‘ ' “ ’
experience, collections ran ex- son-
house from 8 a.m. to _______
Mrs. Clyde Haynes Jr. as presicl
ing judge. Two members will be
elected from Candidates E. C.
Penkert, Luther Smith, Claude
Fitzgerald and Wallace Stephen-
Friday night, Aubin met with
7 p.m. withj will come Jan. 18 at 6^Q pun, at the board at Bridge City, and the
house. i (See f)?':—“
the Courthouse.
tremely high in December. Nor- j
mally the big rush to pay school i
district taxes climes in late Jan- j
uary.
On Feb. 1, 1955, taxes become j
delinquent and an additional f
per cent penalty and interest is !
added to the aataurit due. Dis- i
wn
A write-in campaign is in pros-
pect in West Orange’s District 2
where three directors will be
elected and there is only one can-
didate, Leonard^E. Cockrell. Elec-
tion will be at the school with
Mrs. T. W. Rowe presiding.
In Bridge City's District 3,
Orange To Get 100 New Units
Of Low-Rent Housing-Solons
,"J]
The Public Housing, Adminis-
tration central office in Washing-
ton will announce Monday the
allocation of an additional l00
units of low-rent housing for the
City of Orange.
Telegrams informing the local
^1223*hoS"
With a prediction of about 14.000: deadline and avoid the unneces-
make their payments before this (Election of three trustees from
phase of (he agenda, members of
the port and navigation district
will hold a -called meeting Tues-
day at 6 p m at the Little Mexico
Restaurant.
The, basic outline of the trans-
fer call| for the payment of $50.-
00(r at the rate of $5,000 per year
Without interest for 10 years for
the wharves, docks andsother
physical assets, less mineral rights,
retention and payment by the
city of $112,000 in old bond issues
and continued municipal receipt
of oil royalties from producing
wells on the tract.
Questions have arisen on own-
ership of port cash balances which
amount to about $7,200 and re-
tention by the city of garbage
dumping’.rights. One suggested
solution on the money is Increas-
ing the amount of purchase price
by the balance on hand and re-
(See COUNCIL, Page 11)
“Fight a little dear—to I can
test this 200-pound line I got
in the Leader Want Ads!”
receipts issued in the county this
year, it is jurged that many
residents as . n o s s i b 1 e come in
early,” Fred E. Force, countv as-
sessor-collector, said yesterday.
“By coining in now. county
residents will avoid the long lines morrow
and delays which of necessity oc- i-i—1
eur during the week preceding j
the deadline regardless of the
number of personnel hired,” the
Official explained.
To date, Force estimated (hat |
250 exemptions have been iss
to those over 65 living within the
city limits an,d to those turning 21.
On poll tgdtes, about 1,200 have
been obtained. The fee for a poll j P^1.*
tax if At .75, Later this week sev- United
ergLpoll tax stations will be set
Up at strategic points throughout
the county where such receipts
WU1 be issued.
sary penaU^and interest.
IE TO REPORT ON HEALTH
KEY WEST. Fla., Jan. 7 (API
President Eisenhower will report
six candidates. They are former
Board Chairman J. C. Edgerly,
Norman Miller, G. A. Laughlin,
L. D. Young Jr.. R. W. Anders
land Jay ;M. Eshbach. p
The Bridge City election also
on the state of his health at an will be held at the school during
informal news conference here to-
the hours mentioned, with J. P.
O’Connor as presiding judge.
Super Hydrogen Blast, Dwarfing All
Other% Is Planned by United States
WASHINGTON. Jan. V (AP) —
TRUCE ENVOY KILLED
MUNSAN, Korea, Sunday, Jan.
A new super hydrogen blast;-
arfiqg both this country’s and
ia’s previous best efforts, re-
will be set off by t h e
tes this year.
Congressional sources said the
test would be part of a series the
Atomic Energy^ Commission is
planning in the Pacific Ocean
testing area. The AEC itself de-
clined to comment.
Speculftion put the size'
equivalent of between 30 and 50
million tons of TNT. ■’
Russia reported last November
it had set off its most powerful
proval of the housing were re-
ceived Saturday by the executive
director, Floyd V. Aubin, from
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson and Rep.
Jack Brooks.
Aubir> also was informed by
Brooks that PHA has recommend-
ed approval of a $20,000 prelimin-
ary planning loan by the Housing
and Home Finance Agency Ad-
ministration. This loan will be
used to pay initial expenses con-
nected with the new project,
which will be made available to
low-income Negro families.
Following receipt of the tele-
grams, Aubin announced that he
would ask the authority’s archi-
tects. Matkin & Fitch, to start
will discuss possible sites for the
new project, which will cost in the
magnitude of a million dollars.
The authority already is op-
erating 300 units of low-rent
housing in Orange. One hundred
of these, the Pine Grove Homes,
are occupied by white families.
The 200-unit Arthur Robinson
Homes are occupied by Negro
families....... ,
Construction of the additional
100 units will wind up a prog
set up soon after wdrld War
■-a
and covered in a
agreement between 1
and City Commission.
' .'a
hydrogen bomb. AEC Chairman j work immediately on a develop-
ish member of the truce commis-
sion died Saturday after he “»
parently slipped and fell benea
the wheels ox a U.S. Army trucl
in the demilitarised zone, the Al-
lies announced.
c of the
nd three
.w isrjaiftA njss •
8 (AP)—■ A high-ranking. Swed- j major between two and
times
Lewis L. Strauss said the Russian
explosion “was in the range of
megatons” and later published re-
ports overseas set it at between
one and five megatons. A mega-
ton is the equivalent of a million
tons of TNT.
The United States’ 1954 Bikini
blast is generally thought to have
had a force of 15 to 17 megatons.
to disappear
completely. That would put the
strength of the new blast at th^
U.S, officials to cancel plans for
a second explosion with perhaps
at 30 meg
as much as 30 megatons of force.
ment program for the project. Fol-
lowing approval of this document
by the PHA offices in Fort Worth
and Washington, bids on the
project can be called for. The au-
thority announced earlier that it
hopes to let a contract for the
housing in February.
Aubin also announced that a
special meeting of the authority’s
that time, the board will pass *a
this stage of the program. It also
ORANGE JUICE
UNWANTED — Two objects
dropped into the coin collectors
while members of the Business
and Professional Women’s Club
were out beating the buckets for
the March of Dimes Saturday-^
an onion and a shotgun shell.
EVILS OF SWEETS — And
other rich foods consumed over
the holidays have resulted in the
hospitalization of Pound Master
Oscar Breaux. A diabetic, Breaux
was forced to enter city hospital
to get things back in balance. His
condition is satisfactory and he
will be discharged in a few day*.
WHY? - Were Policeman
Johnny Peveto and Juvenile Of-
Itai
crusted dead cat in the ripening.
number of roMduUoM necessary at stage on the back of the eer atop
the luggage compartment.
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 7, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 8, 1956, newspaper, January 8, 1956; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth562006/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.