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SULPHUR SPRINGS. T|XAS, MONDAY. MARCH 7. 1955.
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Pupils
Appeal
For Aid
Irving, March 7 ft—Here is
the latest on the Irving school
strike situation.
Students asked for state help
today to settle a fight between
the school board and the super-
intendent they fired, Dr. John
Beard.
And grownups at Irving filed a
petition to abolish the entire
school district.
The students wrote a letter
seeking the aid of the state edu-
cational commissioner, J. W. Ed-
gar.
The grown-ups filed a petition
that makes calling of an election
on abolishing the school district
mandatory.
A spokesman for the group,
Russell Horn, says the idea of
the petition is to abolish the
school district and the current
school board.
He says that if the election
carries, they’d petition for an-
other election to create a new
school district and a new school
board. March 19th has been sug-
gested as election date.
Burglary Loot
Shipped Back
To Arkansas
Loot taken in an Arkansas
burglary by two escapees from
a reform school in Wisconsin was
shipped to its rightful owner
Monday by Sheriff Jim Bryce.
Sheriff Bryce and Deputy
Arlis Herman arrested the two
teenagers last week in Saltillo
and found the loot in their po-
session. They admitted to Sher
iff Bryce that the merchandise
was stolen from a store in Ark-
ansas but neither of them could
remember the name of the town.
The sheriff located the town
in question by use of the local
radio dispatching station and
identified the owner of the store
Which the two fugitives burglar-
ized.
Loot recovered from the
thieves consisted of two watches,
two cameras, and a quanity of
food and clothes. It was sent to
Forest City, Ark., Monday morn-
ing.
The youthful burglars are' now
in custody of the FBI. They arc
expected to face trial in feder-
al court in Tyler on a charge
of car theft. They are accused of
stealing a car in Wisconsin and
using it to make their getaway.
The car was recovered by Sher-
iff Bryce.
Former Officer
Charged With
Fatal Shooting
Henddrson, Mar. 7 ft—A for-
mer Rusk County deputy sheriff
was charged with murder at Hen-
derson today in connection with
the fatal shooting of an ex-con-
vict early Saturday.
Th’e assistant county attorney,
Bill Ferguson, filed the charge
against former deputy Grady
Ash, who * said the shooting was
in sell’ defense. Killed was 46-
ycar-old Blanchard Sorrell, who
was shot to death at Ash’s home.
Sorrell lived in Mount ! Enter-
prise before moving to Hender-
son. 1 .
Drivers Escape
Wreck Uninjured
There were no injuries in a
two-car collision Monday morn-
ing about two miles west of Bra-
shear on U. S. 67, and property
damage w'as light.
The mishap occurred as James
Hurt, Sulphur Springs, essayed a
left turn in his 1954 Ford pickup.
He was struck from the rear by, a
1960 Studcbaker driven by Ger-
ald Huffman, stationed with the
Air Force in Arizona.
The Studebaker rammed into
Hurt’s trailer, which contained a
bull. Apparently unhurt, the bull
walked’ away after the wreck artd
was later penned.
Jesse Reed arid Joe Pruett, lo-
cal Highway Patrolmen, saiJl the
trailer incurred about $7q in
damages, the Studebaker about
1150.
, accident was about
day morning.
1150.
Time of thd a
8 o’clock Monila
State Police Launch Search
For Indicted Land Dealer
FOR THE WINNERS—Watt Morris, president of the Northeast Texas Livestock Association, is
shown admiring the trophies to be presented winners here this week. The seventh annual North-
east Texas Livestock Show opens Tuesday at City Park in Sulphur Springs. The trophies for the
show were donated by Roberts’ Jewelers. (Staff Photo by T. A. Wright).
Livestock Show Banquet
Scheduled Tuesday Night
Florida Solon
To Oppose Slash
In Income Taxes
Washington, Mar. 7 (/PI—A Flor-
ida Democrat, Senator Spessard
Holland, says he will oppose the
$20-a-person income tax cut pro-
posed by House Democrats and al-
ready approved by that body.
However, Holland contends that
the tax cut “is'not a party issue”
in the Senate.
In a statement, Holland said,
“We Senate Democrats were not
consulted on the $20 reduction by
our colleagues in the House, nor
have we held any party confer-
ence on it, so the matter is not a
party issue.”
But a Democrat who asked tl.at
bis name be withheld said he has
no doubt that what he termed a
“campaign document” is being
prepared as the minority report
of six Democrats on the Senate
Finance Committee who support-
ed the tax cut. He said this docu-
ment will be used by party mem-
bers in the 1966 campaign.
Democratic Senators Harry
Byrd of Virginia and Walter
George of Georgia voted with sev-
en Republicans on the finance
committee to knock put the tax
cut provision wh)ch the House had
passed after a bitter partisan bat-
tle.
WEATHER
NORTH CKNTRAL TEXAS Partly
cloudy and aliirhtly warmer tonight and
Tuesday. Lownrt tonight St-42.
WEST TEXAS Clear to partly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday. Slightly warmer
TtMwdfty. •
EAST TE'XAS Partly cloudy and cool-
-r thin afternoon and tonight. Warmer
Tuesday night. Lowed <4-42 in interior to-
night.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS — MoeUy
cloudy *nd cooler this afternoon and to-
night. Warmer Tuesday night. Lownrt 14-
42 in Interior tonight.
Tickets to the livestock show
banquet here Tuesday night were
going fast Monday, according to
Waire Currin and Howard Hicks,
members of the ticket committee,
as observers predicted one of the
largest banquet crowds in the
show’s history.
The event is slated in the high
school cafeteria Tuesday night at
7:30. A queen, Grace Moncrjef, is
to be crowned, while Sterling C.
Evans, Houston banker, will de-
liver the principal address.
Prizes and trophies will be
awarded to winning exhibitors at
this time.
Judging in the senior division
will be concluded Tuesday after-
noon.
Tickets to the banquet, priced
at $2 each, are available at the
Chamber of Commerce office or
may be purchased from Currin or
Hicks.
Currin asked that tickets be
purchased by 10 o’clock Tuesday
morning by those planning to at-
tend the banquet. This is neces-
sary, he explained, because Mrs.
Claude Young, in charge of pre-
paring the meal, must have a defi-
nite idea as to how many people
she will have to feed.
Out of town exhibitors will be
guests of local businessmen for
tlje occasion.
Cattle in the junior division will
be shown Wednesday.
Federal Jury
Indicts Woman
i V t;.<
Car Snaps Pole
In Sunday Crash
A car went out of control Sun-
day about 1;30 a, m. on Gilmer
Street and .crashed into a tele-
phone polle,' striking it with suf-
ficient foVce to break it off at the
ground.
Driver of the car, Roelf Payne,
was not seriously, injured.1 Police
said the car was rather heavily
damaged.
Payne, stationed with the U. S.
Army at Camp Chaffee, Ark., was
visiting in Sulphur Springs for
the week-end.
Police said he was back in camp
Monday.
Deaf and Blind Couple
Wins Fight for Infant
Akron, Ohio, Mar. 7 ft — A
deaf and blind couple won their
'igh( today tq keep their 2-week-
old baby. " r, ,
A juvenile court judge in Ak-
"on has ruled the county welfare
department can not make Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Hathaway put the
•hild in a foster home.
Judge Russeil Thomas—after a
/-hour informal hearing held
the Hathaways can keep their son
“with no strings attached.”
Hathaway (s '58 yegrs old and
iis wife, Georgia, is 32. They
were supported by neighbors in
their claims that, despite being
deaf and' blind, they are able to
care for the child. ’
Mrs. Hathaway told the court
her infant son, Clarence, “is the
only thing I ever had of my own
in rty whole life.”
During the hearing the child
was kept at an Akron hospital.
W. A. Cannon, 59,
Former Citizen,
Claimed by Death
FXmeral services are set here
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock
for Wilburn A. Cannon, 59-year-
old San Angelo used car dealer
who died Saturday ikt noon.
Hites will be conducted in
Tapp’s chapel by Rev. T. O. Per-
rin, with burial to follow in City
Cemetery.
Pallbearers are Joe Holloway,
L. B. Comer, Jr., Purvis Pearcy,
Elvis Blount. Gerald Prim, H. C-
Cheek, L. E. Deaton, and Ward
Gober. Honorary pallbearers are
(Continued on Page Six)
For Statements
Washington, Mar. 7 (ft — A
turnabout witness at Federal
Communications Commission
hearings, Mrs. Marie Natvig, was
indicted by a federal grand jury
today on nine charges of lying un-
der oath.
Mrs. Natvig, a divorcee of
Miami Beach, Fla., first gave tes-
timony tending to link broadcast-
er-publisher Edward Larnlf with
communism. Later, she repudiated
her testimony. Lamb has denied
any Communist connections.
The indictment waK returned
before U. S. District Judge
Charles McLaughlin. And at the
request of Justice Department At-
torney J. Frank Cunningham, the
judge ordered a bench warrant
for Mrs. Natvig’s arrest. ,
The judge also followed a sug-
gestion by Cunningham thut bond
be fixed at $2,500.
Cunningham told a reporter he
docs not know Mrs. Natvig’s
whereabouts.
In testimony at an FCC hear-
ing last October, the thrice-mar-
ried Mrs. Natvig linked Lamb with
communism. Then early last
month she repudiated the testi-
mony and said she had been coerc-
ed into giving iM>y an FCC at-
torney.
The FCC hearing was on a pe-
tition by Lamb peeking a renewal
of license for his Brie, Pa., tele-
vision station WICU.
The ‘bearing was' recessed Feb-
ruary 24th after the examiner ^nore,. another policeman who had
described Mrs. Natvig as an “in-
credible” witness. Lamb’s attorn-
eys moved that the whole pro-
ceedings be junked.
AEC Declines
Comment About
New 'U-Bomb'
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Washington; Mar. 7 ft—The
Atomic Energy Commission has
declined, comment on a published
report that the United States hab
exploded a new and relatively
cheap kind of super-bomb.
The report was that in last
year’s tests in the Pacific a boTnb
was exploded which consisted of
an H-bomb core awl an atomic
bomb trigger. The outer jalcket of
the bombifit was said, consisted of
unrefined uranium. A name was
coined \ for this new device—a
“U-bomb."
Dr. Ralph Lapp of Washington
—a scientist who worked on the
World War 2 atomic project—als*
declined comment on whether
such a bomb has been produced.
But he Baid if it is feasible ijo use
ynrefjned uranium in a supers
bomb, the world has entered over-
night into a completely new »nd
(Continued on Page Six)
Israel Criticized
For Brutal Attack
On Egyptians
London, Mar. 7 ft — British
Minister of State Anthony Nut-
ting has sharply reprimanded Is-
lael for its part in last week’s
Gaza fighting against Egyptian
troops. In the fighting, 88 Egyp-
tians and eight Israelis were kill-
ed.
Nutting called the Israeli am-
bassador to the Foreign Office
less than 24 hours after the Is-
raeli-Fgyptian Mixed Armistice
Commission found the Jewish
State guilty of what was called
“brutal" and "pre-arranged at-
tack.”
No details were given out by
the Foreign, Office concerning
what Nutting told the Israeli
ambassador. But other British
informants said Nutting strongly
deplored the incident and Israel’s
part in it.
Israel has disclaimed responsi-
bility for starting the fighting
and has appealed to the United
Nations special truce commis-
sion.
Italians Allow
Church Signs
To Remain Intact
Rome, Mar. 7 lift—Members of
the American - supported Church
cf Christ put up their fourth
sign today—an improvised one—
and Italian police let it alone.
Police previously tore down
three signs on the church’b build-
ing despite legal decisions affirm
ing the protestant group’s right
to display a sign.
Cline R. Paden of Brownfield
and Lubbock, Texas, one of the
pioneers of the church in Italy,
said: “It seems as if we have won
—we hope so.”
The latest development in the
swift-shifting police scramble over
the signs followed a query by a
U. S. embassy representative last
Friday at the Italian foreign min-
istry. An embassy spokesman
said the American move was not
a protest, just an "inquiry” about
the case.
Italian police tore down the
church’s third sign last Thursday,
a few hours after a Rome tribu-
nal decision approving signs on
the church’s places of worship.
Today members of thfe group
reinstalled the four letters they
still possessed and then painted
in bronze the missing letters to
complete "Chicsa de Cristo” —
Church of Christ—on the building
front,
As they worked two police sta-
tioned there told them to stop.
The churchmen continued putting
up the .sign. Soon about a dozen
more police gathered at the
church.
Just as they were putting up a
ladder to remove the sign once
BIGGEST OF SERIES
Spectacular Atomic
Explosion Set Off
Las Vegas,‘Nev. Mar. 7 (Aft—A
new atomic blast—clearly visible
in Los Angeles, 250 miles away—
has been exploded in the Nevada
desert. °
' The explosion is described as the
biggest and brightest of the 1956
atomic test series.
It wus number 4 of the current
series and the 55th test on the
Yucca flats, 75 miles from Las
Vegas.
The test this morning—20 min-
utes before dawn—wus perhaps
the most dazzling ever seen from
Las Vegas.
It shone a yellow gold color
above the mountains near Los An-
geles—almost as though the sun
were trying to make an early ap-
pearance.
Today’s "shot” wus exploded
from the highest point yet test-
ed—a 500-foot tower.
Observers stationed on Angle’s
peak—west of the test site—re-
ported one of the most impressive
ever seen from that Charleston
Mountain range Vantage Point.
Eye-witnesses say the fireball
was not the largest and the ex-
plosion was not the most power-
ful of those which have gone be-
fore. A 1953 blast was believed to
he considerably more powerful.
However, today’s lireball, while
higher than usual, did not suck up
as much dirt from the dasart
floor. The cloud rose quickly to a
peak height of perhaps 30,000
leet, then seemed tq divide Into
two puffs. The stem of the mush-
room was reddish and unusually
thick.
The shock of the explosion was
felt by mountain-top obseiver* 55
mile* away 5-and-one7half minutes
after the flash.
General Taylor
Appointed Army
To Succeed Hull
Washington, Mar. 7 Oft—The U.
S. 8th Army commander, General
Maxwell Taylor, has been appoint-
ed the US and UN commander in
chief in the Far East. The Defense
Department announced Taylor’s
appointment.
taylor will succeed General
John Hull, who is retiring April
30th.
been telephoning came running.
‘Stop, atop, stop,” he shouted
in Italian.
“What,” said one of the group,
“are they permitted to have it?”
“Yea,” was the reply, “they
are to be let alone.”
Son of Dairy
Farmer Killed
Clovis, N. M., Mar. 7 (ft — A
Santa Fe railway passenger train
collided with a pickup truck stall-
ed on the tracks cast of Farwell,
Texas, yesterday.
A Farewell dairy farmer’s son,
Darrell Martin, was killed. The
father, W. E. Martin, waB Injur-
ed. v
The train, biyind from Clovis,
to Houston, was going about 65
miles an hour. It was delayed
2 Is4 hours as a result of the cot-
lision. !. .
KEEPS REPS GUESSING
Admiral Says US Navy
Can Defend * 1
TaipeiJ Mar. 7 (ft—The head
man of the US Pacific Fleet, Ad-
miral Felix Stump, has declared
that “if the United States is will-
ing we can defend anything
against the Communists." ‘How-
ever, Admiral Stump’s assertion
left the Reds guessing.
Newsmen asked the admiral
whether his statement included
the Chinese Nationalist-held Matsu
islands, just 20 miles off the Red
mainland. And he emphatically1
replied; “Anything.”
But top American officials halve
not specifically and publicly said
what action would be taken in ’the
eyr-nt of a Communist assault on
the Jdatsua or Quepioy. Stump
visited the Matsus yesterday and
he was in Taipei, the Nationalist
capital, for several days of con-
ferences concerning the defense
of Formosa. /, ;
He had a final talk with the Na-
tionalist President Chaing Kai-
shek this morning and made his
“We can defeod anything” decla-
ration at the airport as he was
about (o take off for Hong Kong,
his first stop en route to his Pearl
Harbor headquarters. t
When newsmen asked If there
pas^a danger of war, Stump re-
plied l “It depends on the Com-
munists. We are hot the aggres-
- they are.”
Stock Market
Probers Seek
Profit Records
Washington, Mar. 7 ift—Sena-
tor William Fulbright of Arkan-
sas says the Senate Banking Com-
mittee, of which he is chairman,
may subpoena the profit records
of brokers trading on the Mid-
west Stock Exchange, h’ulbright
heads the inquiry into the eco-
nomic significance of the current
stock boom. His group heard tes-
timony today from James Day,
president of the Midwest Exi
change, which is in Chicago. Day
said he thinks very few stock
pric<‘« arc out of line.
Also on rail in the inquiry to-
day was Ronald Kaehler, presi-
dent of the San Francisco Stock
Exchange.
Defense Counsel
And Judge Clash
In Vice Trial
New York, Mat. 7 (ft—A clash
ever the questioning of prospec-
tive jurors flared today between
defense counsel and Judge Francis
Valentine in the second trial of
oleomargarine heir Minot (Mick-
ey) Jelke on vice charges.
Defense Counsel George Her*
refused to exercise his peremptory
challenges to say immediately
whether a juror was acceptable.
He explained the defense wanted
to reserve Its 20 challenges until
12 persons are seated unchalleng-
ed.
Judge Valente first ordered him
to exercise a challenge, then gave
in. The judge said, however, he
knew of no basis for such a stand.
The first juror sworn was insur-
ance man .)esse Berlin. Normally
he automatically would be fore-
man. But until the defense makes
use of its peremptory challenges
it is not certain he will remain.
Austin. Mar. 7 CAP) —
State police are seeking a
West Texas land dealer in
connection with indictments
returned under the veterans
urogram investigations.
He’s B. R. Sheffield of
Brady. He and a former state
land commissioner, Bascom Giles,
are jointly accused of conspiracy
to commit an $83,000 theft.
The search for Sheffield has
been underway since Friday.
Meanwhile, a former resident
of 'Cuero, who now lives in Den-
ver, Colorado—T. J. McLarty —
has returned to Texas to face
questioning. An attorney for Mc-
Larty told legislative investiga-
tors this morning that state
ngents possess written statements
which clear McLarty of any
charges brought against him.
The former Texan has been
subpoenaed to appear before both
Senate investigators and the Kle-
berg County grand jury tomor-
row, and the House investigating
committee Thursday.
Giles is free on a $60,000 bond
made after his arrest in downtown
Austin Saturday. Giles, often
mentioned in the past as a pos-
sible candidate for governor, was
the so-called "father" of the 100
million dollar Veterans Land Pro-
gram. TKe program provides for
long-term, low-interest purchase
of small farms by veterans of
World War II and Korea on loans
backed by state bonds.
British Vessels
Report Attacks
Hong Kong, Mar. 7 (ft—Action
in the Chinese offshore island
fighting hae been relatively quint
of late. But two British freigh-
ters reported today they had been
fired on in the Formosa Strait.
Both vessels radioed Hong Kong
the attacks were Chinese Nation-
alist naval craft.
There was no mention of any
casualties or damage. Both Brit-
ish ships escaped. One later was
escorted by a Royal Navy warship
to her destination—a Chinese
Communist port (Tisinkiang).
Laura Cumming
Urges Liberal
Red Cross Gifts
Miss laura Cumming local Red
Cross executive, appealed Monday
for residents of Hopkins county
to be liberal with their donations
when the Red Cross fund raising
campaign opens March 15 with
the special gifts drive.
‘It is money raised in these
drives that enables us to help
othei i,” :,u; rr*d.
Miss Cumming stated that the
Red Cross is busy 12 months out
of the year giving assistance to
those in need or distress.
“Our home service department
is especially busy," she went on.
“Recently a letter was written to
a, field director overseas to get
a health and welfare report on a
serviceman whose parents were
uneasy because they had received
no communication from him in
over a month. > '
“The field director replied by
return mail that the serviceman
was well and on duty regularly,
(Continued on Page Six)
Fire Damages
Frame Garage
*
A frame garage "on College
street was heavily damaged by
fire shortly before noon Monday.
Cause of the fire was unknown.
Firemen doused the blaze
quickly after reaching the scene,
Assistant Chief Tom Clifton paid,
but considerable damage had al-
ready been done.
Mercury Dips
To 28 Here
The mercury was standing on
55 today at-11:30 a. m,, follow-
ing an early morning low of 28,
and the weatherman promises
mild weather ahead.
There was ice in the Sulphur
Springs area eurly Monday, and
a light blanket of frost, but Ralph
Hill said apparently nothing was
killed. Peach and plum blooms
came through the freeze with fly-
ing colors, he reported.
It was cold ail day Sunday. Al-
though the minimum tempera-
ture was seven degrees above
freezing, the mercury could climb
no higher than 50 during the
course of the day.'
Barometric pressure was high
and rising Monday,
Stephen Daniel,
Retired Mail ...
Carrier, Dies
Final rites were conducted
Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock in
Tapp's chapel for Stephen A. Dan-
iel, 85-year-old retired mail car-
rier who died early Sunday at his
home on Route 4, Sulphur Springs.
Death followed a lengthy illness.
Officiating minister was Dr.
Davold Morgan. Interment was' in
City Cematar#.
Pallbearers were Howard Myers,
Ed Allen, C. W. Hogan, A. C.
Steed, Aubrey Bain, John Hayns-
worth, Jr., and Bob Phillips, ami
Amos Odell.
Honorary pallbearers were H.
A, McWilliams, > Jim Bennett,
Fra/ik Culpepper, W. T. Kuyken-
4)iU, R. Turney, J. C, Hager,
Murrell taw and Mr. Diamond. w
Mr. Pahiel had been a resident
of Hopkins County for the past 40
years.
He is survived by three daugh-
ters, Mrs. Frajnk Pinion, Sulphur
Springs; Mrs. T,. M. Putman, Al-
tus, Okla.; and Mrs. Estelle Ro-
The garage is the property ofitramul, Dallas; one »on_8illy Dan-
Frank Gufford. I (Continued on Page Si*)
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