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VOLUME 52, NUMBER 181 Che Bailg BetoB'toan The Greatest Daily Circulation In The Heart Of America's Future HEATHER GRAND PAIRIE, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS 14 PAGES TODAY BY JIM DRAKE A MOTORIST caused some eyebrow raising to say the least when he parked astride the headin parking meter in downtown Grand Prairie, The only question was vio- latioa But sjnce he wascare- to feed the.double-head meter five-cent pieces (both sides) the onlookers decided that it was okay, FOR THE second time this spring, information was published in this Column about the resignation of two faculty members of the Grand Prairie school system. One, at high school level, later did an aboutface and decided to remain. At about the time that was being mentioned, another of junior high level entertained some ideas of leaving. It got into print. Today, he's changed his mind.

Hell be around at least another term. MAJ. ALEX Bujalski (pronounced Bee-yahl-skee), who is due to guest speak at the Noon Optimist Club a few weeks hence, is still very much concerned about relatives whom he has not seen since the early stages of World- War II. For that reason, he's not likely to say anything in his speech here that can be used to die detriment to family members who may still be alive somewhere, behind the iron curtain. He will, however, tell about his underground activities after the fall of his native Poland.

THE SUMMER'S pretty well decided as far as Asst. Prin. Ray Fuller of Lee is concerned. He plans to spend most of the vacation days at his cabin on Lake Texoma only a stone's throw from fishing water. A VISITOR to this section of the News Texan recently was former scribe Margaret Galloway, who is now pushing a pencil for a Dallas news- Paper (women's department.) GP GRAG: Lee Junior High is sending on to senior high next fall an artist of no limited ability.

His picture, along with his oil of Robert Lee, appeared in a recent issue of the Texan. And Lee Prin. Joe Hendrix agreed with us that Don Benton's effort is-a very good likeness of the Confederate general so good, in fact, that it 11 be given a placeofprominence(exhibit) at Lee. MONDAY, MAY 29, 1961 Waning Session Kills Tax Hopes GROUND BREAKING Scores of spectators were present Sunday afternoon to witness the ground breaking for a hospital for Grand Prairie at the intersection of Duncan Perry Road and Dalworth. At the microphone is Chamber of Commerce President C.

P. Waggoner. Others (left to right) are Richard Harrell, Houston, in charge of administration; M. H. Hampton, Durwood Button, Mayor Gene Goree, Dr.

B. R. Weiner, Dr. J. R.

Almand and Dr. E. P. Read. The project will call for an outlay of more than a half million dollars TEXAN PHOTOS.

Death Toll Record Looms BY UP INTERNATIONAL The nation's motorists raced toward a new Memorial Day holiday traffic death record today. The toll for the first 64 hours of the 102-hour holiday weekend neared 300 and was higher than that of any other Memorial holiday on record. Traffic accidents were claiming more than four lives every hour. National Safety Council Girl Slain, Attacked In Sleep FT. COLLINS, Colo.

(UP1)- Police today searched for clues in the mysterious rape- murder of a pretty 15-year- old girl in her bed while six unsuspecting persons were in the house at the time. The body of Jerra Lee Owen, who had never been out on a date alone with a boy, was found by her mother, Mrs. Windle Owen, at Sunday, approximately 5j hours after the attack. The covers had been tucked tidily under the girl's chin. The bed was soaked with blood.

President Howard Pyle said, "Unless our motorists show more respect for traffic law and exercise better judgment in every other way, this Memorial Day holiday will become the most tragic we have ever recorded." A United Press International count at 10:30 a.m. EST, more than 64 hours after the holiday's start at 6 p.m. Friday showed 292 deaths in traffic. There were 52 drown- ings and 48 miscellaneous deaths for a total of 392. California led the traffic death count with 26.

There were 23 in Michigan, 19 in New York State, 18 in Illinois, 13 in North Caroline, 12 in Texas, 10 In Kansas, 9 in both Kentucky and Pennsylvania, and 8 each in Minnesota, New Mexico and Tennessee. Safety experts had hoped the death pace would slow down Monday as many Americans returned to their jobs for one day of work before embarking on the official holiday Tuesday. "The highways will continue to be crowded," Pyle warned. "Don't let carelessness get you into a traffic accident. Take extra care to meet this extra danger and expect to arrive late but safe." The National Safety Council estimated 100 persons would be killed in traffic during the 30 hour "official" holiday period from 6 p.m.

local time today to midnight Tuesday, The estimate, together with the toll for an average three- day May weekend, added up to a possible 415 traffic fatalities during the four days. With Memorial Day and its frantic dawn to midnight along "familiar" neighborhood streets still to cotne, the highway toll ran well ahead of safety experts' projections. During a three day Memorial Day holiday last year, 367 persons died in traffic. The three day Memorial Day weekend in 1958 set the nation's all time record 371 traffic deaths for the May holiday. Tower Victory Boosts Sen.

Goldwater Image Hope Still Held For Missing Girl CHICAGO (UPI) -Carol Ann Batterman, 19, and a bride of two weeks, disappeared from a bus stop in Oklahoma on Memorial Day three years ago. Today, her husbandhopesto start a new lifewith anew girl. But Carol's parents say they believe their daughter is still alive. "We'll never give up hope," they Carol Hlavac and Dennis Batterman were childhood sweethearts, to thesame high school in a naU suburb southwest of Chicago and had the same friends. Neighbors said they were "good kids." They married on May 17, 1958, and left for Norman, where Batterman was stationed at a naval air train- Ing center.

Theyhoneynponed at a motel in nearby Moore, Okla. On Memorial Day, Batterman drove to the base as usual, Carol was to take a bus to the base that afternoon and meet him when he got off duty. They planned to go househunt-! Carol never arrived and never again was heard from. She was seen by several persons waiting for a bus near the motel. Police said she never got on the bus.

McLaughlin Rites Slated Tuesday AM Requiem mass will be held Tuesday morning at 9:30 at Immaculate Conception Church for Mrs, Catherine McLaughlin, 86, who died Sunday afternoon at a Grand Prairie rest home. She was a native of Ireland who came to America as a young girl. Rosary will be spoken at 8 p.m. Monday "night. Mrs.

McLaughlin- had been In 111 health for the last few months. She had made her home a Grand Prairie daughter for about five years. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Dick Burleson, 2038 Dalworth, and a son, W. H.

McLaughlin, Gary, Ind. POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE, Tex. (UPI) The GOP conservative wing in the Senate has a new recruit in John G. Tower of Texas, and President Kennedy's New Frontier has another enemy. Tower, a political science professor successful in his first bid for national office, is a Republican in the image of Sen.

Barry Goldwater of Arizona. He opposes the New Frontier. He favors a tough line with Russia, military occupation of Cuba, if need be, and lower taxes with leas federal spending. He is, in short, a conservative. oppose him when I think he is wrong." Tower, at 35, one of the youngest men ever elected senator, said he could pinpoint no one particular domestic issue as the biggest facing the country.

But he was specific about the biggest international issue. "We must take a tough line toward the Soviet Union," he said. "This continues to be the most critical issue confronting the American people. It is the issue of the free world versus communism." On Cuba: "1 think we should impose At a cabin on Possum King- lOWPf dom Lake, nestled among the hills and crags near Mineral Wells, the 35-year-old Tower defined his philosophy: "A conservative is one who believes in the preservation of free institutions, resists the trend of centralization of power in Washington and who believes in low taxation and low spending. He is a person who believes in returning to the states the functions and rights that are traditionally theirs, and in the preservation of our sense of individuality, local initiative and re- sponsibllity." He translated that into opposition to the Kennedy program.

"In general I oppose the New Frontier," Tower said. 'It is far too-liberal for roe. I will say I believe in respon- slble opposition. If I think at any time the President Is right, 1 will support his position as vigorously as-1 will Discounted By Truman INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (UPI) Former President Harry S.

Truman said today the election of Republican John G. Tower in die Texas senatorial election was "just a case of oneRepublican beating another Republican." "There were no difference between the two candidates," Truman said at his office in Independence. "The so-called democrat (William A. Blakley) ran just like a Republican and got just what was coming to him." "It was a case of picking one Republican over another," the 77-year-old former chief executive added. Truman returned to Independence Sunday night from Washington where he attend, ed a birthday party for Presi.

dent" an immediate arms blockade on Cuba. 1 would hope that this Fidel Castro government can be brought down from within. If it Cannot, the time may be imminent when we should militarily occupy Cuba. 1 would hope we could secure the support of the Organization of American States, but failing that we must act unilaterally. The integrity of the Monroe Doctrine mustbepre- served." Bpb Dakel Dies at 39 Bob Dakel, 39, a resident of 921 SW 5th died Saturday in a Grand Prairie hospital after a short illness.

A former of Cameron, Dakel lived in Grand Prairie for the past 13 years and had been employed 12 years as a sheet metal layout man for Chance Vo'ught. A veteran of World War II, Dakel served with the Army Air Force. He was a member of Grand Prairie Bible Church where he taught a Sunday school class of junior age boys. Survivors include his wife; a son, Lynn Dakel and a duagh- ter, Denise Dakel, all of the Grand Prairie address; his mother, Mrs. H.

L. Dakel of Cameron; a brother, E. L. Dakel of Baytown; and. one sister, Mrs.

Robert Busker of Waco. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Monday at Grand Prairie Bible Church with Rev. Roy Matheson offlcating. Graveside services were to be at 3 p.m.

at Cameron Cameron. Special Meeting Certain BY PAT CONVVAY AUNTIN (UPI) Senate conferees today for the third time rejected House pleas for a compromise tax program as the faltering and feuding 57th Texas Legislature headed for its automatic end at midnight. The state's $350 million money problem will be the holdover responsibility of lawmakers when they return for special session, probably July 5. The 10-member conference committee met for 40 minutes before breaking up for good. Its mission was to find a tax program that both chambers and the governor could accept.

Failure to write a compromise bill sets the stage for a House vote on the sales- tax-heavy bill the Senate sent representatives two weeks ago. Gov. Price Daniel has vowed to veto the Senate's bill if is approved by the House. Daniel also made it clear he would veto the bill if presented to him in a special session, and urged lawmakers to make one last attempt to compromise. The governor will deliver his views of the 57th Legislature in a statewide broadcast some time this week.

The record of the 57th Legislature has been more notable for bills killed than for bills passed. Lawmakers had 20 more days than usual to do the job. A constitutional amendment passed last year extended the regular session from 120 to 140 days, and established a $4,800 annual salary for legislators. That annual salary was the first thing lawmakers passed and remains as one of the few major pieces of legislation that has cleared bothcham- bers. More than 1,800 bills, proposed constitutional amendments and resolutions were introduced by the 150 House members and the 31 senators.

Passage of major legislation such as a teachers' pay raise and medical care for the aged hinges on passage of a tax bill. So does the state's record $2.5 billion budget that has been ironed out by a conference committee and can be acted on if a compromise tax program is approved. If not, all compromises made by budget conferees are off and the job will start over again in special session. Lawmakers took care of their own token changes, but failed to act on congressional districts. They also have failed to follow a constitutional mandate to regulate the small loan industry.

The bill died last Friday in Senate committee. i Nothing was done about the i governor's demands to pass i highway safety legislation, but i Daniel has had some success with his water program. Law- I makers approved measure? to purchase space In future re- servoirs, and liberalize the loan program for needed re- I servoir construction. 1 Needed controls of munici- i pal annexation died in the Se- nate, while increased work- men's unemployment compen- sation expired in the House. 'i FREEDOM I LEFT HIM I SPEECHLESS IBSTOCK, (UPI) Joey, a talk- II ing budgerez gab (ze- bra parakeet), which escaped seven years ago, Sunday returned to its aviary, but it has lost its voice antf now requires speech lessons.

BUI Blakley Grand Prairie remained true to form and the Democratic Party Saturday. Local voters, about 2700 strong, turned out to give Democrat Bill Blakley a better than 50 percent edge over John Tower, his Republican rival for U. S. Senate. Tower, the successful candidate -on a statewide basis, piled up only 1071 votes here, compared to Blakley's 1601.

Blakley had been the frontrunner in the first go-round last'month, but by a much slimmer margin. With the Democratic vote split several ways, the Dallas millionaire amassed 896 votes, compared to Tower's 845. Jim Wright was a strong third with 726. In the main surpirse of Saturday's local vote, the Fannin School Box went for Tower by a narrow margin. This was regarded in some quarters as a protest against -Blakley's conservatism, since Fannin School area voters ordinarily are in the liberal Democrat category.

Blakley won all other boxes, as follow: Precinct 405, Central Fire Station, Blakley 485 to Tower's 319. Precinct 406, Travis School, Blakley 248 to Tower's 149, Precinct 431, Bowie School, Blakley 395 to Tower's 282. And precinct 432, Avion Village, Blakley 295 to 139 for the Republican. Local Wrecks Hurt Tot, Man Two Grand Prairians were injured Saturday in separate automobile accidents, one involving a school jjus loaded with students A was taken to Mid-CitieiJ Hospital Saturday after she had been struck by aicar.in the 1000 block of Indian Hills Drive. Saturday night around 9 o'clock, James Edward Crutcher was injured when his car was in collision with the school bus.

Tall'U By Boyce House It was at night and a man was on his knees on the sidewalk. A policeman asked, "What are you doing?" The other replied, 'I'm looking for a silver dollar 1 lost." The officer, suspecting the man had been drinking, asked, "Where did you lose it?" 0ver there," indicating the other side o'f the street. 'Then, why aren't you looking over there?" "Because," said the man, "the light's better over here. Candis Ann Browder, 3, was Injured when she darted into the path of a car driven by Elaine Beasley Hale, Grand Prairie, according to police investigation. rut her was released from the hospital Sunday.

Hospital attendants Monday morning said information on the little girl's injuries had not been revealed pending study of X-rays. C. L. Miller made the investigation. Crutcher, according to police, was attempting a left turn off SE 8th onto Dickey when his car was struck by the school bus driven by Cloyd Franklin Stiles.

Apparently none of the 30 or more students was injured. Making the investigation for the police department was John Click. In other police activity, a Dallas woman, 50, was picked' up Sunday night for investigation of carrying a concealed weapon and rudely displaying firearms. Investigators C.G. Owens, and D.

D. Sherman said complaints had been received that the woman had pointed the gun at passersby. When apprehended, police took a loaded.38caliber pistol from the woman who was quoted by police that she was carrying the weapon for protection. World (BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL) rance A 19-year-old French cousjfl of Mrs. John F.

Kennedy was killed in a highway accident today while reportedly on her way to Paris to meet the U.S. President's wife. The Kennedys are due to arrive in Paris on Wednesday. Police identified the dead girl as Danielle Bouvier. Mrs.

Kennedy maiden name was Bouvier CANAVERAL, Fla. The threat of a wildcat strike could halt all missile and space shots from this huge test center hung over the SSI, Pending requested action from President Kennedy. The possible strike centered around the layoff of 16 photographers. WASHINGTON United Nations Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson will make a three- week goodwill trip to South America as a epresentative of resident Kennedy.

The White House said Stevenson would discuss ways of strengthening inter-American cooperation. LONDON The Church of'England and the Roman Catholic Church will "without any doubt move closer to each other in the future the retiring Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr! Geoffrey Fisher, said Sunday night. Thearch- PASS? 8 aid recent 811 to ope JohnXXHI didn't just happen out of nothing.".

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