Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 8

jr -1 Corpus Christi Caller-Times Sun May 8 1955 All Pro-Beard Candidates Win In Irving School Board Election Overtime Likely For Legislators Spending Taxing Unsolved More Tax Hearings Monday was fired by the former school board In February Elected today were John Andrew! 1109 votes Walter Hansen 1710 Hodges 1699 Russell Horn 1720 Reese 1703 Dr Scott 1714 and Jack Williams 1711 The total vote was 3293 some 400 shy of the number that turned out when the Irving Independent School District was abolished Horn president of the present board said the new board would await a decision from State Edu cation Commissioner Edgar on appeal on his dismissal before the board selects a superintendent The seven men elected today will begin two and three-year terms as soon as the present board canvasses the returns Horn said the present acting superintendent Ira Lasatep wanted to return to his Job as principal- and Horn added that he felt if Beard was not reinstated the board will go out of the system to find a replacement IRVING May (APl-Dackerz ol ousted Supt John Beard won a smashing victory as all seven members of the pro-Beard slate wen swept In as school board members today The anti-Beard slate failed to land a single post although less than 300 votes separated the candidate receiving the highest vote total and the lowest It was the third time within six weeks weary Irving voters balloted over the boiling school controversy ignited when Beard Related stories on page SA AUSTIN May 7 With the two major spending and still unsolved Texas lawmakers today faced the prospect of having to work far beyond their automatic pay cutoff Tuesday How far depends on how hard and how smoothly the legislators want to work without their customary $25 a day suspended by the constitution after a session 120tn day Legal Speed Limit Sometimes Too Fast for Safe Driving over $100 of Jewelry furs and clothing There were no appearances for or against the jewelry-fura-clotb-ing levy Hearings were set for Monday proposed state income taxes tax hike a manufacturers tax a tax on natural gas to long pipelines and a proposal to equalize natural gas and oil production taxes at 6 percent The' giant spending measure for state services was still in a Joint House-Senate conference committee hying to reconcile differences between the two houses Work was expected to be finished next week but House and Senate concurrence are still necessary Taxation appeared to be in a high state of uncertainty The Senate State Affairs Committee conducted hearings all week-right up to Saturday and still has more hearings next week Shivers Rays They Can Gov Shivers said at a late-In-the-week news conference he thought the task could be completed in two if the lawmakers work hard The estimate obviously did not allow for any filibusters deadlocks or other snarls all of which are always explosive potentials In the waning days of a By BILL WALRAVEN Tbs well-dressed middle-aged woman stood before the bench in corporation court and asserted I wasn't going but 30 miles an hour" The defendant was obeying the legal speed limit the policeman who investigated the woman's accident testified He pointed out he had ticketed her for exceeding a safe speed From testimony the court agreed with the accident investigator's action and the woman paid a fine Aetaal Difference Police Arrest 12 More Top Catholics drivers said they had a green light impossible but there you are One of them was what we call a light stretcher and the other was a light Jumper and they met In the middle" You can never depend on other drivers to stop at a stop sign or traffic light he added and speeding up to catch a light is a good way to receive a ticket for exceeding the safe speed if you have an accident Only Signs Needed By city ordinance thege are 26 intersections and six streets in Corpus Christi on which a 20-mife-an-hour restricting may be placed at all times merely by the erection of speed limit signs It was determined the ordinance reads that on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the speed permitted by state law at the intersections and streets is greater than' is reasonable or sate under the conditions found to exist seems to think that accidents only happen to the other fellow" Hewlett said that were the case we have any accidents" many people would be Inclined to believe that the 'safe speed and the legal speed limit1 areHhe same there is really quits a difference" Sgt Howard Hewlett of the Police Accident Prevention Bureau said Hewlett explained that according to both state law and city ordinance the safe limit governs speed considering road conditions at a given time The legal limit IS'Set forth by speed signs' "Most people never worry about what constitutes a safe speed until they are in an accident" Hewlett said Often their first knowledge of such a speed limitation is gained from an accident investigator May Have Bearing fact" Hewlett commented a safe speed never becomes a violation until a subject becomes involved in an accident Then it may have a bearing on who was at fault in the The woman who was fined was driving in a 30-mile zone However her accident occurred at a busy intersection at a rush hour a road condition which made a speed of 30 miles an hour hazard- Renters BUENOS AIRES Argentina May Police today arrested top leaden of the Catholic Action leading Roman Catholic organization in the latest phase of the church-state dispute At least 12 leaders were known to be detained including the president of the central junta Luis Psrrigi Police searched the homes of those they arrested Zhukov Hits Bases The state affairs committee has completed hearings on all tax proposal! contained in the House-passed omnibus tax bill and has turned to hearings on proposed amendments Hearings Yesterday Hearings today were on amendments proposing gross receipts levies on storage warehouses airlines real estate broken parking lots chain stores and sales TERMITE CONTROL SERVICE Guaranteed Exterminating Co DIAL TU4-801 1 CLUE TO ATLANTIS? Top: The shoreline at Ansedonia 70 miles north of Rome Italian archaelogist Constantino Cattoi believes this shore shows evidence of giant rock sculptures of animals' which he is convinced were made by 1 of the lost continent of Atlantis At top of -the rocks is a medieval castle which has connection with the Atlantis theory Bottom A tracing of the photo made by Cattoi which he has filled in to show his conception of the sculptured animals He believes they guarded a city which may have been the capital of Atlantis The city Cattoi thinks is now underwater (AP Newsfeaturcs Photo) ANCIENT CIVILIZATION a speed through any intersection is too Hewlett said He listed other conditions which would make the legal limit excessive Among them were low visibility caused by fog dust or rain slick pavement heavy traffic and congestion of narrow streets legal speed limit is always excessive in residential areas where children may be playing" Hewlett said at nighttime when visibility is poor" ID mph Recommended Motorists should riot trust the other fellow to stop because they have the right-of-way "It is better to slow down to 'a speed where you can stop if you have to in spite of the fact that the light is said why a 20-fnile-an-hour speed is recommended at Intersections" Hewlett picked up a stack of accident reports from lari week are three accidents in one day Where both drivers thought theyhad the He pointed to one of the cases showing a diagram where two autos met squarely in the center of an intersection of the MOSCOW Sunday May 8 Marshal Georgi Zhukov Russian defense minister today accused the United States of surrounding the Soviet Union and Red China with military bases "designed for waging atomic The former comrade-in-arms of President Eisenhower and British Field Marshal Lord Montgomery in the campaigns against nazism signed a four-column article in Pravda in connection with the 10th anniversary of VE Day Zhukov himself was in East Berlin for the anniversary Sees War Preparation He accused "ruling of the United States and Britain of preparing for a new war against the Soviet Union and its Communist allies He also assailed the United States for using the first atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killing thousands of children and old men in cities which had no military importance" Zhukov did not mention President Eisenhower by name nor did the make any reference to correspondence he has conducted with the President recently It has been speculated that this correspondence might tend to improve So-viet-American relations Sharp Contrast The article was in sharp contrast to mild May Day speech a week ago In that speech he -did not mention the United States by name and he declared Soviet policy stood for a solution of disputed questions by negotiation" He said however tiyrt the rearmament of West Germany made it necessary 'to strengthen Soviet security measures Clues To Lost Atlantis Arc Believed Uncovered A won shot 2im Sf pine uel aupi yew fi Con pied net Flat Lc to by said hum dise deni -1 FI witt 11 blue ren Ing box tot pier driv side her 'Witt rate era size I tr bon free ws muc strii ded othi Ues asts pari gair a to I shot Ger Tex 1 tine her Sarr mai ban a gi abm per (Cl LI woo not riec deti aga title Hot clai heir tliq tice Hn 9 pre ing he be is bee hia In lnh to whl am 'll tan fat! of of cla abc Bri not aan liei on egi om did hai lat air bri id pei to pul lin Dc Be St) fo: ie wi wl fm Mi Sti 'mi Vi ivt Ivi dc da YORK GINUINE ROOM AIR CONDITIONERS Hindu Dies After Talk On Rights i 1 -1 NEW DELHI India! May 7 A member of Parliament collapsed and died today seconds after speaking against a bill to give Hindu women property rights The death of Hira Singh Chin-aria 60 a member id Prime Minister Nehru's majority Congress Party led to adjournment of ONLY shoreline I also have found them in high mountains where a city is believed underground now" Cattoi is convinced that an expedition to excavate at the locations he and his wife have discovered would lead to fabulous discoveries ai well as definite proof that Atlantis existed His theories on the underwater cities now are based on shore studies of the sculptured sites and on relics brought up by fishermen Privately Financed Next month with private financing he expects to use underwater cameras to study Cosa the city beneath the sea near Orbetello A film will also be made of the shore sculptures in Italy and Sicily 1 Cattoi's goal is to find further financing on the basis of the film taken in the upcoming investigation Someday he would like to lead an elaborate expedition including divers sonar to chart the ocean bottom and perhaps underwater television Cattoi is a retired Italian air force colonel one of the most decorated Italians His interest in archaeology began in World War I when he discovered a giant sculptured stone head on the crest of a peak on the Italo-Austrian front He came to public notice in his new field in 1923 when the 36th Italian Geological Congress heard a glowing tribute of his work from Gabriele dashing soldier poeL praised Cattoi's pioneering use of the airplane in archeo-ogical research The short intense Italian met his wife while doing research in central Italy in 1929 Since then they have worked togetherand he credits her for leading him to many finds His travels have carried him across Europe and to the United States The Latin Academy of Sciences and Ans a private organization in Rome recently named him director of classes for study of Atlantis the Pacific atoll where the II-bomb was tested" says Cattoi tested some of the believed locations of lost cities of Alantis with a geiger counter In one instance the reading was very high" Cattoi and his wife also an archaeologist believe that in 40 years of work they have traced five sunken or buried cities which once belonged to Atlantis Ail slipped beneath the sea or were covered over by land mass when Atlantis sank they are convinced Near Gibraltar One is near Gibraltar Another which Cattoi believes may have been the capital is at Ansedonia 70 miles north of Rome Striking unexplained stone figures exist on the shoreline there Still another he believes is the sunken city of Lylybeo near Marsala Sicily The most recent find is the ancient city of Cbsa off ML Argentario near Orbetello Italy which -Cattoi says -he located lari year He also claims credit for finding the Etruscan city of Cspena some 20 miles north of Rone traces of sunken or buried cities have been found also there are in the vicinity giant weathered rock sculptures cut miUeniums ago by highly civilized men" Cattoi said He exhibited dozens of photographs into which the figures of lions and dragons could be read Cattoi is convinced these sculptured boulders and massive wails re the work of the people of Atlantia They portrayed animals and mythical characters such the one-eyed giant Cyclops Work of Maa years these sculptured stones have been considered just prankish works of Nature Not so They were the work of man" said the Italian How did they survive the forces which destroyed a continent? theory Is they rimmed the cities as a warning to those who would molest the state either from within or without When the cities slipped Into the sea the figures still remained on what now is the Ideal hr all badraaaw hat Is mats It ate Draft fraa circulatiea Taaipar-preef By FRANK BRUTTO -J ROME May The lost coni' tinent of Atlantis has fired man's Imagination for centuries Ancient Greek legends told of a highly civilized people living on a Western land named Atlan- tis An Ideal political state flour- idled there Then came a mighty disaster and Atlantis disappeared Was the legend true? Did At- I lantis exist? After 40 years of study Italian nrchaeologist Constantino Cattoi rays the answer is yes He- be-t Jieves he has uncovered definite dues to the lost continent Giant Beit Cattoi visualizes Atlantis is orig- Jnaliy havinf been a giant belt of land stretching from Asia to Cen-' tral America Gradually he theo- vised parts of the land dlsap- jwared beneath the sea until three bodies remained These he as: Lemurla linking what now is India and Africa Atlantis ewer-ing most of what now is the north- central Atlantic Ocean with an tiffin called Tyrhennla reaching eastward to what is now Italy and a giant Pacific land body from the present Hawaii-I cn islands as far south as the So- ciety Islands and as far west as the Carolines and Marianna Islands I "That much must be apecula-J Hon" Cattoi said in an interview i is patched together from leg-lends of many the Ax-Mecs the 'ancient Egyptians tip Greeks But there is a remarks- hi identity of the ancient lore nbout what happened next About 1 10000 years ago a final cataclysm destroyed Atlantis the last of the islands Tbs ancient Egyp-tians seem to have been the news carriers It was passed on to Plato who wrote vividly of Teds of Legends What force destroyed Atlantis? -The secret may be locked forever in the past Plato spoke of earth- quakes Cattoi tells of legends 'which Indicate a aeries of disasters He thinks there may possibly be a connection between these -stories and the flood of 40 days described in the Bible The Italian archaeologist even has speculated that somehow Nature might have created a natural 1 1 atomic explosion 1 sounds incredible but think the force which would have been required to destroy a and remember what happened to Brown Stnder INSURANCE AGENTS IDS WILSON BLDG CORPUS CHRISTI PLUMBING CO 617 SOUTH STAPLES (hat lack togtfksr MY ONir II A WfHt IQ Two Harttorda Agency" SM CL OL 11 BriSiaat BONDED DIAMONDS la 14 kt aM fliklail awaaHafi IM lack Isgsttiar sat only sjm a wine 1273 SDORTIlAtlDjN 8 7 Uri Mutant IONDED DIAMONDS la 14 kt aM Maafltft IM lack tsiilhar A MfiltcMl tAT ONIV 111 A win 4 I IONDED DIAMONDS la 14 kt 14 itvMiftf fliklail 4tiitiiif MY ONIV A Win I JOO mot (MARCH 10 (NOW StTAIt NO MONEY DOWN GREGG SHORTHAND TYPING BUSINESS ENGLISH SPELLING JUNIOR ACCOUNTING and SECRETARIAL COURSES! as low as 1 a week NO INTEREST -NO CARRYING CHARGES all THU MAIl OIDII COUfON Register Now: Summer Fall Terms piksi Muds ftdorsi tn USTirS 434 Oispwrri Csrput Orbit Tn aarf a 4 a KINDERGARTEN MUSIC Private lattrectiaa AH Ages VlaHaPleae Veka AS Instraaieata NEW CLASSES MAY 9 DAY AND NIGHT JOBS WAITING I 3rd CRAPES Day Treaspertatiea ACCREDITED STAFF STATE LICENSED DflPWAM ftuiineSS Oilmt rtt4 as Wkwr If yoa 4s kata aa aii-ft III 4Mra ftltytA 1 kttr baa twsHrA 11 sour at Santa 4) WIIA wM tttrat rn kata tr kora ka4 auto AUTO GLASS EXPERT SERVICE Dtoceaata te Imaraaca Ce aa cemprehamive Uaaaa IS ssata at aaSWagyv awrtta Parkins Auto Glay Co a ataa tat 220 Water St TU2-4I65 424 CHAPARRAL sti ca 5.