The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 11, Ed. 1 Monday, January 14, 1963 Page: 1 of 6
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B.URNED OUT'— R. II. Ruins was the lone occupant of this house at 502 Putman Street,
which was heavily damaged by fire Monday morning. Firemen battled the flames for
about an hour. Contents of the house were ^a complete loss. (Staff Photo 'by Cody
Greer).
! Joint Church Efforts
Outlined at Breakfast
Ideas for successfully carry-: ministers that the last two]
i mg out two top level joint j church attendance efforts “had
church programs wore exchang- j not been too effective."
od Monday at a breakfast meet-i He urged that the census he
ing of Sulphur Sp.rings minim planned so that workers not
steis ana members of their only will seek information hut
churches. 1 also carry u message with them.
The projects are the annual 1 Members of the group joined
city-wide religious census in 1 in a discussion of ideas for iil-
j February and the H o p k i n a j creasing the effectiveness of
County Church Attendance i the attendance appeal,
i Movement during the month of I The Rev. R. C. 1 lousew right,
j March. | pastor of T e in p I c Baptist
| The Rev. Felix Kindel, chair-; Church and chairman of tin-
man of the church attendance . census committee, reported that
I committee, explained the Sul-jthe Rev. O. (). Harper will he
| phur Springs Ministers Associa-1 in charge of material, Homer
lion had agreed to tie the two Hennc-n of enlistment. Hr. Ed-
j event- into a timing sequence , win Mays of zoning and the
I in order to gain a more sustain- j Rev. Leslie Seymour of pub-
I ed impact. I licity.
The census will he taken the | -‘We will need the help of
last Sunday in February, and all,” he said. "This will he a
the church attendance program g,eat oppoitunity to emphasize
will begin the following Sun-j church loyalty and attend-
day. lame."
Mr. Kindel said revisions in ... ,, ......,
hollowing a recorcl-nreaxing •" ............... . <=■,. ,,c.c.-, o.-c. **..■*- p)annin,r being made be- Ml. House wt ight also piopos-
,,r ii flei.rees e-.iiv this temperatures in about every , iow zero at Dalhart this morn-; . , .. ed that the various churches
,0" ‘R otgnis eai i > uus i . cause of a feeing among the ....... , . ..
— - - ...... ----- - organize programs for visiting
in the homes of all their mem-
bers during February with em-
news to worried farmers in the this morning. | 111(1(16 LlIt(lS<iV , pha,iis "n a" '"daM<'‘‘-
lower Rio Grande Valley. A1 Drownsvrile, in the lower val-l ** Hennen agreed to head the-
protective cloud cover spared had 33 degrees at dawn j
the lush valley a second straight ''day compared to a sub-freez-;
damaging freeze. .ing 27 early Sunday. |
1’lumbers m Sulphur Spring’s!, Th(‘ f™” lwly S“nd“TH JR Oil 008^31
Kennedy Proposes Biggest
Income Tax Cut in History
Reforms Slated
To Cover Losses
CENSUS AND ATTENDANCE
MERCURY TOPS FREEZING MARK HERE
Numbing Cold Eases Grip
On Wide Areas of Texas
The cold wave and water1 The previous low mark for; The three here—put on a 50
pipes — broke in Sulphur this date was 21 degrees a per cent use cut for the short
Springs Monday as tempera- year ago. | time—were the Carnation Com-
tuics crept above the freezing Numbing cold was easing pany, the A. P. Green Fire
point for the first time since over all of Texas after a second Brick Company and the Rock-
last Thursday. morning of sub-zero weather well Manufacturing Company.
Following a record-breaking 1,1 the Panhandle and freezing Temperatures dived to 12 be-
of 11 degrees early this temperatures in about every.iow zero at Dalhart this ntorn
,cuing, the mercury lose into other portion of the state. ing. It was 18 below tl ere Suli-
the upper 80s under a bright Deep South Texas did escape 'kgv. Lubbock, with a minus Hi
sun. The freezing point was r freeze, howeve, bringing good Sunday, had a zero low reail-
pac.-.cd at about ll.a.m
Washington, Jan. 14 (AP)—President Kennedy
proposed the biggest income tax cut in history today
in his state of the union message to congress. In his
prepared text, Kennedy proposed a 13 and one-half
| billion dollars slash to take effect in three annual
| setups between now and 1965.
Individual taxpayers eventu-! __ ______
ally would save about eleven
billion dollars a year under the employment economy.
Scout Council
Slates Meeting
Tuesday Night
Judge Lindsay
Delays 11 Cases
leponcd more calls than they
believed to have caused exten-
, , , i I i Live damage to tender valley
could-'handle today 11s breaks in , ,
i vegeta I des, but citrus trees ap-
T lie chan mini of tin- Semite
pipes — unnoticed while ice1 «... u, - c.-s , vm.uer, .am. i. wn — i/m- The ministers will discuss the! in H,,'*n,,inK to go along with it
blocked the way - appeared. | l^'Aty escaped serious harm., trict Judgeg Looney Lindsay ,UKKesti„ns al t h ,. , r
Temperatures here dropped. Precipitation ......,
Ti e 1 ■»*;•{ annual meeting of to 10 degrees Sunday for the big the night was limited to trial of 11 Hast Texans ac- February and will draw up pro- Senator Horry It y i d of Vir-
cond straight day. Sunday's -now flumes at Houston and cured of bribery, conspiracy flaln< f,„. t|„. two projects. |ginia. wartieii against disastrous
f IK H 'KM — Determined-
looking Indian soldiei wear-
ing trudi'.onal turban holds-
hi- o’domatie wiopon at the
i eaiiy (III ling United Nu-
j turns military operation in
[ kntnncu proviiu e, the Con-
| go. (N'UAl.
Kennedy's Tax
Program Gels
Cautious Okay
school division of the attend-
ance campaign again tins year, i W arbmgton. Jan. I 1 '&■ ■< iin-
j He praised c«. operation being I V*'1"*- generally gave cautions
rteeiveu Jrom school principals A'l'Rl o'-al to President Ken-
las the most valuable aspect of! nedy s tax proposal-.. However,
this work there were many (alls fora cut
top priority program which
Kennedy unveiled in his tradi-
tional state of the union mes-
age to congress. The rest of
the benefits would go to cor-
poration. .
First stage proposed tax cuts
for lilt).'! would total six bil-
lion d o I I a i s. That would he
roughly the equivalent to the
biggest tax reductions of tin-
past .
In his prepared text, Kenne
Carefully Tailored
Although details won’t be
i e v e a 1 e d until later this
month, it was apparent the tax
bill has been carefully tailored
in an effort to meet anticipated
opposition from congressional
consci vat ives.
Besides calling for gradual
rate cuts, to lessen the adverse
i m p a c t on federal finances.
Kennedy advanced two com-
panion proposals that would
| dy told congress lie wants indi-j (bin in tin- -nine direction,
jvidual tax rates reduced from; Hue would be the enactment
| the present range of 20 to 111 of tax reforms recouping three
| per cent to what lie called a) and one-half million dollars of
j more sensible range of I t to | Hie revenues that would be
1 i!5 per cent. He asked congress lost through lower rates. Re-
| to lower the top corporate rate Hu ms would begin going into
| from 52 per cent to the pre-
! Korea level of -17 per cent. Tile
| President said one-fourth of
I the resulting revenue losse
effect this year.
The otliei would he a plan to
gradually speed quarterly tax
payments hv large corporations
would be iccoiiped through tnx | m order to boost the revenues
loforms I by one and one-half billion dol-
lars without changing corpor-
ate tax liabilities.
j The lifting of tin- secrecy
1 wraps from the long-awaited
j lax [i a c k a g e was easily the
I high I i ght of the 4,500-word
i message.
In addition to the proposal,
in Texas dur-i postponed iff Gilhier today n t. x t association meeting in ' Fim.'tce Committee, Democratic j Kennedy also implied that the! (j j(j
Detiret Haile
Kennedy also, stressed a de-
ire fin haste in congressional
consideration of tax legislation.
In his prepared text, Konne-
thc Red River Valley Girl Scout ■','1
Council will he
Woman's < 'lull
I I i in the high was 2S degrees _ a 10- Rcaumont a rare spectacle and theft in tbe slant oil well
building here degree improvement over Sat for the upper coastal region. scandals.
Tuesday night at 7 o'clock. jurday’s leading. ■ |- The outlook is for clear t<
I I The bitter weather over the partly cloudy skies over north
u pi ogiuni in< << s i state during the week-end was cm sections of the state and legislature adjourns, probably
tion and m aallatmn ol officers hlanui(1 in(ihT,.t|y f(>1, H, least consideralde cloudiness in the
ami appointment of committee}^ yxiation deaths and south.
meeting were the Rev. J. Gary
deficits if a tax cut is not ac -
companieil by corresponding
l'.S. and its allies are winning
! the cold whi at a time when
! Red Chinese-Soviet frictions rc-
“N'ow is the time to act. We
annot afford to be timid or
low. For thi- is tin- most ur-
Eight of the cases were post- ! ( simpDe-ll. Mr. Kindel, Mr. | ('-deral spending
veal what he called the weds j _,|inl t„_,k ,.„Mfronting congress.
poned until 30 days after the
May.
chairmen following a dinner.
T o p i c s requiring council de-
risions also will be presented.
Anyone w h n is a registered
member of the council carries
a vote.
Mis. L. A. Chick of Paris,
three fatal fires. | --------------
Temperatures are expected ■>! i
to average II degrees or more i3<‘W ,S|)tI|K“I I Jcllll
below normal over Northeast
Texas for the next five days,
according to the long-range
.ovemnii nt forecast.
This was done be-
<• a u s e Representative Joe
Chapman of Sulphur Springs
and Robert Fairfield of Cen-
ter aie lawyers for the men.
Burns at TollrU
Follott. Jan. I I Ilf1 Fire de-
Housewright, Dan Ronner, the I Senate Rcpiililii an b-adei F,v-
Rev. L. R. Jordan, Mr. Hennen, ''letl Dirk-cn echoed Ilyrd’s
Mr. Seymour, t h e Rev. Janie- sentiments.
Westbrook, Dr. Mays, the Rev. I S e n a t e Democratic leader
I.. I!. Morgan, the Rev. Roy S. jMike Mansfield -aid: ‘‘We 'lave
Martin, Charles Moore, !•'. W. got to spark the economy with
Frailey, W. K. Rradford, Flu-1 a lax cut that gives the great-
of internal disintegration
the Communist camp.
The President did not specify
any puritcuhir date on which la-
in his prepared text, thr* I the initital rate cut
President challenged the Soviet; should take effect. He merely
who atl c n <. ec t la- N at ion a I G ill j slight warming trend i.- -t royeil t h e weekly m- \vs|iapc r
Scout Roundup at Hutton State fi,recast tiirouyh mid-week, fol- plant a Follett, in the extreme
Park in \ > rii.ont last July "'ill ! lowed again by colder eondi-! northea-t corner of the Texas Two others L- D. Mur-
-how slides of the event with a; tionz. Rain or snow is expected Panhandle, this morning. 1 raV and J- -A. Turner — were
ciimni' ntai-y. Alts, thick served |,.far ^|1(, week-end. I The blaze was discovered in represented by legislators,
a a nurse on the train which | Natural gas use limitations the frame building housing the’ but their cases were continued
took I i-xii-, Oklahoma and New! , ipo-ed early during" the week- F’ollett Times about 5 ;.‘>0 a. m. along with the others,
Mexico viii- to tue event arm I ,| on f h rce Hopkins County The building b u rriod to the! The state had been expeet-
l hen a- a campsite ho-pital ; industries by the Rone Star ground. The editm and pub- ed to < .-ill 12 defendant
nurse. 1 Gas ( o. were lifted Sunday li.-her, F'red Skaggs, had no ini- ever, the state said the case
long with the re-tnotions on mediate estimate on the lo-s. (,f Robert W. Mathews was
ither major indu-trics on the Cau.-e of the fit*- wasn’t learn- not ca!]< d because he is ex-
stem throughout the area. ed immediately. j j e,t,.,| to he a prosecution wit-
ness in the trials of the oth
Th" trial of Pete Davis of1 gene Brice, Herman Goldsmith,
Glade water was set for Jan. Verrlon Graves, Judson Perkins
2blh. His lawyer said he would and Lonnie Campbell.
file a motion to quash the in-j -----------------—
oictment.
Police Report
Quiet And Cold
Week-End Here
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had ore of
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-tc t week
end pci'lud
! 11
'onic
time am
Sales Tax Changes
Foreseen by Chapman
the (■11 -1 <
thing to i
Due !>•;
I
ouid have had -oioe-
i o with it.
11 v a - in the city
11 M*»n»l
lay morning on a
unk t tiii
..e. Sbenff’.s offi-
].' j * i«• k t
*d ;ifi a man on a
a ?./♦• ^>t
iiwvir.g mortgaged
' > j D I l. V .
1 ut ali
"tin. j- ac tivity wa-
limited to thr traffic violation
type. r
Highway patrolmen filed D)
- a-c-s in Justice l ou.-t here
over the week-end. Five -,vi-rc
f-q- speeding, two Wore fol
failure to i.ppeai m ;ir.s:(ei
t i I D-day tickets and the oth-
er ‘hree were for disregarding
walking -iv-rib loud mufflers
a; d dnvir.g the wrong way on
a divided highway.
Anticipated freezing mois-
ture faded to materialize in
the ar<;» ovu the week-end,
preventing added handicaps to
motorists.
There were no traflic ac-
cidents in the, county uuiing
the period.
i State Representative Joe N
'hapmaii of Sulphur Springs
will occupy some strategic com-
mittee post- in the session of
.ha- Texas legislature now in it-
-eeonq week.
Chapman was appointed by
House Speaker Byron Tunned
as chairman of the judiciary-
committee. He wa- n a in e d a
nu mber of the public lands and
, buddings, insurance, claims and
accounts and common carriers
committees,
As judiciary < ommittee < hair-
man the Sulphur Springs attor-
ney automatically become- a
nn-mbi t of the Texas t ix'il J uoi-
< ial Council, which serves a- an
anvi-ory group to the R-gi-la-
tor-. O t h e r members include
judges from the Texas Supreme
' Court and the courts of civil
appeals, lawyers and laymen.
First Bills Awaited
! Chapman repoited committee
| work will begin this, week as-
first hills are introduced im-
mediately following' the inau-
guration Tues(|ay ,,f (fovernor
John Connally. The measures-
usually require at least two
weeks of committee cuii.sidera-
tion before they begin reaching
the floor.
the past due
ei inns conte t
pe ition
• to be faicd
Th<- local legislator poitced
out that the hoiic v.a.- oigari-
ized much more rapidly this
scsssion than in
to a!> <-nce of n
fur th«- spcak'-i’■
Although i-.-u«
by th<- state’s law makers have
not yet crystallized. Chapman
listed three topics whleh aie
ennspicious in Austin discus-
-tons.
They arc changes in t’n<- .-ulcs
tax, a -mall loan regulation law
and doubling tuition in state
college- from the present $5<i
level to provide additional fi-
nancing.
I drat Plentiful
“T hi e r <• al-o is tin
hodgepodge >
t h e -.V - > 1 h I, f I -
death sentcru
added.
Chapman repoiteil c->ri
able sentiment appears to
in favor of abolishing pi
-ales tax exemption- and i in -
po-ing the levy "-‘ndght across
the board" as a mean- of elimi-
nating prevailing complications
and raising needed new, reve-
nue.
T h < legislat'd returned to
Austin Sunday after -pending
everyt hing
a iioii-hi ng
on down,"
ual
in
i he
he
ide r-
< xist
r-senl
trie week-end af bis" horrj<: Irercr
I ers. Ili.s trial wdl follow that.
! of the other 11. Mathews is
j a former employe of the Rad-
load ( i.mmi.-sion, which regu-
! latcs Texas oil production. I
Four clefc-udants wire absent
today. They are: II. L. Rissell,
. A. Hewell, F . C. D'uitscli
ai:cl \V. ('. Dcutsch, all Ia>ng-
vii-w oilmen.
1’iesent were: David; Ma-
thew-; L. D. Murphy, dismiss-
ed Railroad Commission em-
ploye from Kilgore; Fi. W.
.'c;;ii's. \V. Fi. Mitchell, and j
A thur Vaugh, all Longview j
oilmen; and r, S. Star of Gil- .
ic.-r; and J. A. Tyler, Tyler
law y ei.
Fire Heavily
Damages House
Fire gutted a -mall frame
hou-e at 502 Putman Stn-et |
..t 0:25 Monday morning.
Th hou-e was occ upied by j
R. II. Rm n- an/I ownecl by J. 1
I). A ■ mge-r.
The blaze, whic h l- believ-
ed to have -tai tecj at or car
a wood-burning stove, spread
quic-kly and much of f n*- hou-e
wa- op fire when firemen ar-
rived at the scene.
Temperatures' wen- in the
upper 20s at the time con-
siderably higher than they-
wcie at the same time Satur-
day or, Sunday.
\ oimitec r and regular .,tare-
men remained on the scene
"a boUt an' ho UP. -----—-
WEATHER
NORTH CLNIKAI, AND NORTH
KART TKXAS ('*!»•«i i<# i>«rHv r|ctnjy
■rtl nt'l <|iiit»* -<i r«.I»I this Hftt'rrur-n
thti.uyh Tu tt tiny [,<-w t/rtiivh' If/ nt/rih
lw 2it wilt h.
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th< '»• finish* ur/I ’Ini y tiny N« » «|MiN
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Union to make a choice be-
tween continued conflict with
the West and the path to peace,
lie said the U. S. is ready for
cither eventuality.
Kennedy revealed the out-;
said the first reduction should
come this year.
Neither ciid he indicate the
first-year impact on the fed-
eral budget.
Kennedy's new budget, for
lines of a legislative program! the 19154 fiscal year starting
| which — apart from taxes —; Inly 1st, will go to congress
the Senate
said; “In
should be
[ranges from the proposed ,crea-
' tum of a domestic peace corps
to enactment of the medicare
I pin ii.
( (ingress arranged a special
, join session in the House cham-
ber to hear the President deliv
Thursday. It is expected to call
for spending approaching !)!)-
billion dollars.
In one of his few references
to the budget, the President
said it will allow fur needed
rises in defense, spare and fix-
iu hi-- annual state of the union | ed interest charges. But he said
it will bold total expenditures
for all iith'-r purposes below this
year’s level.
To dc, this, Kennedy -aid, he
message.
Tin- President described hi-1
tax package ill these words—
"a fiscally responsible program
tin* sorest and soundest j will call for the reduction or
way of achieving in time a bal- j postponement of many desirable
ancod budget in a balanc ed fall j programs, plus payroll and oth-
i * r economic-;.
The!
•e were among- other high-
light.-
of the message:
Tin-
state of t he union is
ge icnl;
u .”
"the recession is behind
Tin
tate of the world is ini-
provin
g ; steady progress h a s
been made in building a world
Of "I'd
» ’ 1 .
SPADE MEN — Giu'irnl-bi eaki-
Christ Monday a- wmk on the
participating in the piogram. a
Tucker, a de acon and, dmn man
dal) Maddox, deacon ; and < !>• I• ■
building commiKec. Tin- pr
builumg as well as the addition
fdeiion -D Muy. (.Staff pnotu ay Lazily.. Greer ).
FjmMas&Sa
g eercnionie- uc-re hebl at the Jeffeison Street Church of
ew .'52.000 i (liicational budding .-tartc-d. Left to right,
e Khdigh Williams and Archie FldwarcJs; elders; Cecil
of the building committee; I.iuizo I’rihhle, minister; Kan-
T(image and Gene ,()rwo-l;y. All except Williams are on
,’c c-t. will cot: -1-1 "1 i eniodeling the present educational
of ten rooms of ntiw construction. Target date for com-
"But," In- said, "\vc cannot
' b<- -all-fled to t > -1 here. This
- is th' .-ide of t In- hill, not the
top. The nii'ii absence of war
i- not peace. The mere absence
of recession is not growth. We
have made a beginning—but
«r have only begun."
| At home, Kennedy wants aid
to education; help for unem-
ployed y o ut h - ; an expanded
health program; strengthened
guarantees of voting rights; jn-
I creased competition a n <i de-
! creased regulation in transpor-
tation; a local mass transit pro-
gram; a new farm program;
mine )i a i k s and recreation
areas.
Abroad. Kennedy seeks a
lowering of trade curbs;
An expanded F’eacc Corps:
An increasingly inti rn ate
NATO alliance, with its own
nuclear force and stronger
conventional arms;
A vigorous alliance for
j progress in Latin America;
And a continuing foreign
j aid program.
He said the foreign aid pro-
gram, in his words, contribu-
ted to the fact that not a sin-
gle one of the nearly 50 UN
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 11, Ed. 1 Monday, January 14, 1963, newspaper, January 14, 1963; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth830628/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.