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UNITED FUND
Goal.....$29,000
To Date __ 25,506
To Go____ 3,494
©fye Daily Hjmts-Sfeltfyram
THE EVENING NEWS AND THE MORNING TELEGRAM CONSOLIDATED IN 1915. ABSORBED THE DAILY GAZETTE IN 1924.
Weather Forecast
Clear
VOL. 82—NO. 297.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DEC. 16, I960*,
6 PAGES —6 CENT8 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Smackover
Top Thought
Encountered
Pan American Petrol-
eum Corporation’s No. 1
Onease Spinks test was be-
lieved on top of the
Smackover lime formation
Friday at a depth of
12,950 feet.
This is 121 feet lower than'
the top of the structure in the
company’s No. 1 Mary S. Nien-
dorff gas-condensate producer
about a mile knd a half to the
northeast. It is 185 feet below
the comparable level in the No.
1 J. B. McKee West Yantis dis-
covery well about midway be-
tween the other two Ideations.
Visitors returning from the
lease early this afternoon re-
ported drillers were circulating
water and mud in the deep hole
to bring up material from the
bottom in an effort to confirm
the position.
Concern Over Drop-Off
Core testing is expected to
follow location of the Smack-
over.
The depth report for the test
was made at 8:50 a.m. It repre-
sented 121 feA of drilling in
the previous 24 hours.
Loeal oil men were express-
ing some concern over the drop-
off in the Smackover structure
at the Spinks location in com-
parison with the levels in the
McKee and Niendorff wells.
The Spinks is at the south-
west end of the line of three
Smackover tests drilled in the
area northwest of Yantis by
Pan American.
124 Perish
Planes
Crash Over New York
Its* jjtj$
b:
WMmk
NEW YORK ALPS—Looks like New Yorkers need not go to the Alps for mountain climb-
ing. They have their peaks right at home, and two climbers are shown scaling one in
Times Square. The huge heaps—remnants of the recent 17-inch snowfall—have been gath-
ered by the Department of Sanitation to be carted away. (NEA Telephoto).
★
Hardship Pay
Washington, Dec. 16 —
The newly-choten iecretary
of labor, Arthur Goldberg,
got a rousing cheer from
newsmen wbo’re been stand-
ing around in the cold out-
side President - elect John
Kennedy’s house in Washing-
ton ail week.
Goldberg said the first
recommendation he’s going
to make on the job ia that
the newsmen get hardship
pay.
DILLON NAMED TREASURER
★
Spell Accurate
Richmond, Va., Dec. 16
—— Tha professor in a frash-
man English class at the
University of Richmond dic-
tated the 100 words he said
are most frequently misspell-
ed by college students — and
the kids wrote them dowm.
Only one p e r s o n in the
class spelled all the words
• right. And hit name is Spell
-— James Bryan Spell of Ar-
lington, Va.
Hopkins County
Citizens Enjoy
Real Sunshine
Hopkins County residents en-
joyed their first day of real
sunshine in two weeks Friday
Kennedy Selects
Brother as Aide
Washington, Dec, 16 tfl *—
President-elect Kennedy has
announced these appointments;
C. Douglas Dillon to be sec-
retary of the treasury. The.
President-elect’s brother, Rob-
ert Kennedy, to be attorney-
general.
Byron (Whizzetx) White of
Denver, to he deputy attorney-
general.
Dillon is a Republican. He’s
undersecretary of state in the
Eisenhower administration.
Dillon is 51. His appoint-
ment is one the financial com-
munity likely will view' as as-
surance there will be no radi-
eal fiscal experiments in the
Kennedy administration.
Robert Kennedy ig 3ft. He
was the President-elect's cam-
| paign manager. He has had
government exp e r i e n c e —
EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS
Shocking
At Scene
Horror Left
of Crashes
New York, Dec. 16 —The j wood,
scene of today’s plane crash in
Brooklyn was one of shocking
horror.
An entire city block was
bricks, plaster and splintered
I'
Foreign Gunners
Believed Active
In Vientiane
Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 16
— Americans evacuated
from the Laotian capital of
Vientiane today claimed that
either North Vietnamese or
Russian gunners were hand-
ling the Soviet howitzers which
are bombarding the city with
deadly accuracy.
Several Americans who have.,
trained Laos troops under the **,
military aid program declared
emphatically that Laotion gun-
ners were not firing the artil-
as cold, dry air finally routed | counsel of the Senate Rackets jery supplied Captain Kong Le’s
Sheriff Reports
Deaton Resigns
As Deputy Here
; a persistent mantle of clouds.
Temperatures dropped to 26
I degrees in Sulphur Springs | history
early this morning. Frost was
heavy, and ice formed on wet
streets and other water sur-
faces.
Bright sunshine had brought
the mercury up to 45 degrees
at mid-day. Ralph Hill, local
Investigating Committee.
This is the first time in US
that ft president, or
president-elect, has chosen a
brother to he in his cabinet.
White is a former All-Amer-
ica football player. He will
serve under Robert Kennedy.
weather observer reported rel-1
| ative humidity as a dry 30 per!
cent and barometric pressure ]
| as 30.48 inches.
Sheriff Paul Jones armounc-1 • 19 At Dalhart
cd Friday the resignation of | Thursday’s high reading was 1
Doil Deaton as a deputy. 143 degrees.
The freezing weather extend-
Boy Scouts Set
Drive to Help
United Fund
Deaton has been a member!
of the sheriff's force since
Jones took over the office al-
most four years ago. <-■--•
The sheriff said he had de-
cided on a successor and will
announce the appointment
within the next few days.
Lone Star Sets
Steel Work
Dallas, Dec. 16 iJ’i — Sub-
stantial orders for coiled steel
plate are credited by Lone Star
Steel Company for plans to put
twp—open hearth furnaces hack
Tn operation at the firm’s East
(Continued on Page Six) ,
WEATHER
NORTHKAST TEXAS Fair and
do important Urpptruture oharuroit thin
thnn»Kh Saturday. Low lo-
ni»fhUU»» to 34. Hi*rh Saturday 44 to
51.
SOUTH CKNTRAL TKXAS Sof-
iinlay fair. warmer in went port on.
Low tonitrht 21 to SO in north, 32
to 38 in south portion. Hijrh Saturday
58 62.
SOUTHEAST TKXAS Char t-o-
piirht and Saturday. Low toniuht 24
to 28 in. north. 30 to 36 in south por*
tion. Mich Saturday 58 to 62.
NORTH W KST 1 KX A S Generally
fnfr ttmujjh Saturday, Nut so cold in
Pnnhnndlc and most tons tonight.
T.oW lonttrht 22 to 32. Hiirh Saturday
40 to 5ft,
NORTH CENTRAL TKXAS Fair
through Saturday. Low tonitrht 26 to
34. Hitth Saturday 44 to 54.
leftist forces by the Russians.
One American who insisted
he remain unidentified said
Kong Le’s artillery is laying
down ‘‘beautiful patterns of
fire across the city center.”
The American said shells
were raking the city in a car-
pet formation in barages of in-
tervals of 5 feet.
He added. ‘‘1 have helped
ed south almost to
Dalhart reported the state's low
with 19 degrees. Skies were
clear-over Texas today except
for some high cloudiness in the
Childress area.
Weather observers predict-
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SHOPPING
DAYS TO
CHRISTMAS
SHOP FOR GIFTS
IN OUR AD PAGES
ed the Texas climate will re-
main on the cold side for some
time yet in view of the vast
amount of frigid air to the
north.
Conditions were described as
ideal for Christmas shoppers,
Winter will make its official
arrival Wednesday flat 2:27 p.
m.
The U. S. Weather Bureau
predicted temperatures aver-
aging 5 to 10 degrees below
normal for North Texas dur-
ing the next five days, with
colder conditions on Sunday
and Monday.
Boy Scouts will collect con-
Austin. ! tributions to the Hopkins Coun-
ty United Fund in the down-|not
town district Sunday as part
of the all-out effort being stag-
ed to complete the dragging
campaign by Dec. 24.
Plans for the downtown so-
licitation and for a secondary
direct appeal to various Sul-
phur Springs business firms
and individuals were made
Thursday afternoon by, the UF
executive comittee.
The recently renewed flow
of support for the United Fund
lagged Friday as only $88.05
in new money was received.
This edged the subscription
total forward to $25,506.53,
which is $3,493.47 short of the
organization’s $29,000 goal.
It leaves $3,493 yet to he
raised if the campaign is to
I (Continued on Page Six)
Murder Trial
Of Osteopath
Still Under Way
Orange, Dec. 16 W! — The
murder trial of a Brownsboro
osteopath, Dr. Charles C.
Rahm, went ahead this morn-
ing.
Rahm is accused in the- fa-
tal shooting of a 42-ycar-old
lumber dealer, Thurman Jack-
son, at a Brownsboro school
board meeting that erupted in-
to a free-for-all brawl.
This morning the defense
atlomey sought to establish
the probability of an organiz-
ed movement of violence at
the school hoard session.
Attorney Charles Tessmer
also introduced testimony of
threats made against Rahm, a
former school board secretary.
W. Russell Davis, who at-
tended the meeting, testified:
"It looked to me like that June
16th crowd knew what it want-
ed to do.”
He said that on the lawn of
the school before the meeting
a member of the crowd said:
“You better have the meeting
on the steps to get away.”
Miller Grove
Organizes Clubs
Mr. Ann Carretta was a wit-
ness, She says:
“1 was standing in the door
of the women’s shop where I
work. It’s just half a block
from the crash scene. 1 saw
the plane coming, directly to-
ward me. At first I thought it
was a strange cloud. I couldn’t
believe my eyes. When I real-
ized what it was, I screamed.
If I hadn’t screamed, 1 would
have had a heart attack right
there.”
Fifty - eight - year - old Ju-
lius Lehmann was driving a j
bakery truck in the neighbor-
hood. He says:
“I saw the plane diving out
of the sky. It was coming right
at me. I raced my motor and
sped down the street. Then 1
heard it hit. I stopped the
truck and got out. Pm still
shaking.”
Mrs. Constance Ciazzo was
looking out tile window of the
flower shop where she works.
She says:
"Probably the worst thing I
saw was a 17 or 18-ycar-old
boy running screaming down
the street with blood running
down his face. He was scream-
ing “Oh, those people are
burning to death.” My hus-
band tried to grab him, but
he kept running as if he
couldn’t stop. I think he went
out of his mind.”
Postman John Senator was
delivering mail in the neigh-
borhood. He says:
“The impact of the crash
caused me to do a complete
somersault. I was on my feet,
then 1 wasn’t, then I was."
A Staten Island housewife
says the explosion of the plane
that crashed in her neighbor-
j’hood today w a s likq a giant
bomb going off. Mrs. Ethel
Man Detained
After Threat
On Kennedy
West Palm Beach, Fla., Dec.
16 — A 73-year-old man has
been held in $100,000 bond in
West Palm Beach on a charge
that he intended to turn him-
self into a human bomb aimed
I at the life of President-elect
Kennedy.
The man is Richard Paul
Pavlick, a retired postal work-
er from Belmont, N. H. He was
arrested yesterday in Palm
Beach. Officers said they siez-
ed several sticks of dynamite,
blasting caps, wiring and other
paraphernalia in his automobile
and motel room.
Pavlick was given a hearing
before U. S. Commissioner
George Pink last night. Pink
raid the bond of $100,000 was
one of the highest ever set in
West Palm Beach.
The $100,000 bond was re-
quested by Assistant U. S. At-
torney Robor Rust of Miami.
John Marshall, a Secret Service
agent ftom Miami, said Pavlick
probably would be taken to
Miami today.
Agents indicated a general
alert was out for Pavlick. He
was arrested for a traffic vio-!
iation.
train Laotian artillery men and
have never seen them shoot like
this before.”
Other Americans who 6’ere in
Vientiane when the first Soviet
supply planes landed said one
plane carried a large number of
"relief pilots.” *
The American said he was
! uov Buic these "relief pilots"
ever took off again.
Another evacuee said a nurn-l
ber of technicians from North
Vietnam came down in early
Soviet planes when petroleum
was airlifted into Vientiane.
The evacuee said observers
around the airport saw tech-
nicians disembark from the
planes.
Diplomats in Bangkok feel
that even if Kong Le is using
foreign gunners, it would be
virtually impossible to detect.
Russian, Chinese or Vietna-
mese gunners, diplomats said
bould be drawn from racial
strains within those countries
akin to hill tribes in Laos.
Two new 4^H Clubs we
organized at the Miller Grove
School Thursday by Miss Adell
Hale, county home demonstra-
tion agent, and J. P. Senter,
assistant county agent.
Walker says: ~ .--
, , | Joseph Ritter of
explosion and I
“I heard the
looked out. It was like a huge
bomb. I saw a big cloud of
smoke, a mass of flames fall-
Miller Grove'had a Joint club in«? through the sky."
last year ‘ An 0,1 deliveryman, Clifford
The new bovs’ club has 14 ; »euth* sa>'» h* heaid what aP‘
members. Johnny Preston is | ffar«(ii to bc 8 Plane m trou-
president, James Waskom vice
Pope Selects
Four Cardinals
Vatican City, Dec. 16 OP —
Four new Roman Catholic card-
inals have been picked by Pope
John. They include Archbishop
St.
New York, Dec. 16
(AP) — Only one person
—an eleven-year-old Chi-
cago boy — is known to
j have survived the collision
i of two big airplanes over
‘ New York City today. There
were 125 persons aboard the
two aircraft. The Coast Guard
said six other persons original-
ly listed as survivors died of
their injuries. The plane—one
of them a D-C 8 jet—collided
in a snowstorm. The planes
fell like flaming rockets, caus-
ing fire and terror on the
ground.
The jet. a United Airlines
plane, fell into a heavily popu-
lated section of Brooklyn, set-
ting fire to an entire block of
apartment buildings and shops.
A church was demolished. Fire
Commissioner Edward Cavan-
augh said 2 Ik rs after the ac-
cident that no dead had been
found in the apartments or
church involved in the crash or
resulting fires. However, fire-
men had not been able to dig
through all the wreckage.
Child Survive!
The other plane was a Trans
Worl d Airline Constellation
with 42 aboard. The plane rak-
ed over the Miller Field section
of Staten Island, across the
harbor narrows from Brooklyn,
and part of it landed in har-
bor water. This plane also set
fire to structures in the area.
The’lone survivor was aboard
the plane which crashed in
Brooklyn. He was identified as
eleven-year-old Stephen Baltz
of the Chicago suburb of Wil-
mette. He is in critical condi-
tion at a Brooklyn hospital.
The disaster set off a holo-
caust in Brooklyn. Morgues
were set up along the aides of
streets as bodies were carried
out of the area.
In the midst of the inferno
could I'*' seen the blackened
metal of a plane fuselage,
about 30 feet high, covering
the entire width of a street.
It was the first crash in the
United States of a pure jet
carrying passengers.
Headed for Two Field*
The TWA plane, flight 226,
was heading for a landing at
La Guardia Airport from Day-
ton and Columbus, Ohio. The
United Air Linesplane, Flight
i bio. He
—j
LOANED BY AUTO FIRM
New Police Cruiser
Placed in Service
An extended transportation
problem for Sulphur Springs
police was solved Friday with
a new police cruiser being pu-t
in service.
Officers have faced periodic
automobile breakdowns in re-
cent* weeks as the result of
troubles with two old cars and
delay in obtaining delivery of
two new special Plymouth re-
placements ordered by the city.
The car obtained Friday is
another Plymouth police , spec-
ial being loaned to the depart-
ment, by the Maddox Motor
It is similar to the two cars
on order except for more lux-
urious appointments, including:
automatic transmission, a more
powerful motor and a white! of
Four Drivers
Escape Injury
In Collisions
Four drivers escaped injury
in two automobile collisions in
Hopkins County late Thursday.
A 1960 Pontiac driven by
Donald I. Mumaw of Illinois
collided with a 1955 Cadillac
driven by John Henry Brown
Fort Worth on Interstate
says:
president, Paul Garmon seore-l ..“I s“" th« engine on the
tary, Johnny Lennon reporter j "K^t s‘de blow up. Then the
and Johnnv Ethridge council j second engine on the right
delegate. | side blew up, arid as it did, it
Larry Mabe and Everett! blew the tail section to pieces.
Watson, junior leaders from M saw a coupb' of people fall-
the Divide club, will work with! *nK ou^ of the plane. It was
the Miller Grove boys. o» fire from the time it blew
Velma Nadine Loane was j up to the time it crashed.”
elected president of the girls'
club, which has 12 members.
Carolyn Garmon is vice presi-
Mrs. John Bailey says:
“1 saw the wing come off.
It kept turning around just
dent, Dianne Russell secretary j like a toy. It was all in flames,
and Sharon Ann Tallant coim- It went down in spirals and in
cil delegate. 1 flames.”
Louis.
Creation of the cardinals at a
consistory Jan. 16th at the
Vatican will bring to a record
86 the number in the sacred
college. There will be six Amer-
icans.
Chosen along with .archbi-
shop Ritter today were an Ital-
ian prelate and the archbi-hop
of Bogota, Colombia and Cara-
cas, Venezuela. There was no
immediate indication that the1
pope would make public at the
Jan. 16th consistory the names
of three cardinals he designat-
ed last Mar. 28th. They were
named “in pectore” — on in
his heart — but their identities
wepe-ixot disclosed, presumably
because they were in Commun-
ist-dominated lauds.
~r
J. T. ADAMS HOPEFUL OVER TUNE
The Lost Penny’ Points
Way for Noteworthy Step
A rusty penny picked upjture.
many years ago is pointing the I Recently new interest began
way for another noteworthy generating around “The Lost
step in the musical career of! Penny.” There was a telephone
J. T. Adams, music director of! call from Nyw 5 ork, followed
the First Baptist Church andj by exchanges of legal papers.
paint job. j Highway 30 five miles west of
The borrowed Plymouth will1 Sulphur Springs about 7:15
be teamed with the depart- i p.m.
ment'.s, 1969 Chevrolet until! State Highway Patrolman
the regular ear* arrive. The1 John Odom said the accident
second old car. a 1958 Ford I oceurred'when Muinaw was at-
wbieh is now disabled, will be tempting to pass a third car.
retired. , ,4'Odom estimated damage to the
City Manager Carl Richni Pontiac a $250 and that to the
said reports front Plymouth I Cadillac at $500.
headquarters explain delivery! Cars driven by James I Cook
Grove and David
Carl and collided
which the j on the two cars ordered is bo- of Miller
were pur-j mg held up by, -difficulty in ■ Hines of
I : Company! through >
4-regular-replacements-
chased- •*. j obtaining the regular tram-! 4:30 p.m. qn F-M Highway 276
The vehicle, which hud been i missions specified from the at Miller Grove.
I used briefly us a demonstrator i firm which supplies the auto- Odom placed damage to
I in Dullas, was brought from mobile factory. Cook’s 1954 Chevrolet at $150
that city by Cljief
I Vaughn Deaton.
of Police! Sirens for the two new cars'and that
arrived this week. 1 at $25. >
widely known song writer and
choral director, j
The coin, on which only the
words “In God We Trust” re-
mained clearly visible, provid-
ed the inspiration for a song
some years later.
Adams, who wrote both
words and music to fit a special
need on a program, entitled
his composition “The Lost
Penny.” That was seven or
eight years ago.
Recorded Here
The number was recorded by
Adams about two years ago as
at.., part of # collection of religioqs
music. The master tape was
made at the Townc House Re-
cording Studio, here, und the
discs were put on the market
to Hines’ 1958. Ford j by Word Records ubout. a year
ago us a Christmas season feu-
Adams was notified Thurs-
day that Biocik Benton, who is
listed by Billboard Magazine as
the nation’s No. 1 popular
singer, will record the song for
Mercury Records on Monday.
Adams is elated but cautious
over the prospects.
Odd* Are Lonj
Chances for a composer’s
getting a top singer and pro-
ducing a top hit are more
than one in 500,000, he esti-
mates.
But Benton, who appeared
as a guest star on the Perry
Como program Wednesday
night, has been, consistently
hitting top popularity ratings
with his songs.
“The Lost Penny" may pay
some big dividends.
New Sanctuary
Plans Talked
By Christians
Possibilities and cost esti-
mates for a building program
centered around a new sanc-
tuary and expansion of educa-
tional facilities were explored
Thursday night by the new
b'ujlding committee of the First
Chri.sf.jsn Church.
Thd group scheduled a meet-
ing in January with representa-
tives of. the Dnllas architect
firm of Brown & Chapman.
Charles Strickland, commit-
826, was heading through“the"
murk for Idlewild Airport from
Chicago.
The two airports are about
10 miles apart, Idlewild near
the south shore of Lqpg Island
in Queens, La Guardia on the
north shore. Normally, two
planes heading for the two
airports would be separated,
but an Idlewild fields com-
munications spokesman said,
"Obviously something went
Wrong."
The disaster recalls the col-
lision of a TWA plane and a
United Airliner over the Grand
Canyon in 1956, with the loss
of 128 persons.
(Continued on Page Six)
Herter Warns
NATO Allies
Of Red Drive
Paris, Dec. 16 'T — Secre-
tary of State Herter has warn-
ed the NATO allies in Paris to
be wary of an expected cam-
paign by Soviet Premier
Khrushchev for renewal of east
west negotiations. Herter said
Khrushchev apparently has won
the consent of -other Commu-
nists countries for more nego-
tiations with the West. He add-
I ed that Khrushchev has trio
i problems — how to avoid nu-
clear war but at the same time
speed conpiunism toward
world domination.
Speaking at the opening,of
a 3-day ministerial meeting,
Herter said the Soviet and Chi-
nese Communists - apparently
had reached a compromise
which now gives the Commun-
ist world a sort of dual leader-
ship. The secretary termed the
question of Berlin and most
immediate a n d. threatening
world problem. He added that
the disarmament question is
presently being used by the
Soviets mainly for propaganda
tee chairman, said members | purposes. On another matter,
are optimistic—orr thrr project j Herri-i -aid that. Cuba ..now ha*
and l'eel that when they come 10 times as much ; military
up with a definite plan within | equipment as it did under de-
the resources of the church the ! posed dictator Batista. Herter
congregation w ill he ready to I aid/-the arms came fyoni thef-
proceed. I Communist nations.
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