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Home Owned and Independent, The Daily Facts- Re i Is Brazospqrt's Own Daily. DA ILY REVIEW Order the Pacts Review Delivered to Your Home Five Afternoons Per Week For Only 20c Weekly VOL, 4a-NO, 4 fcX AS, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1956 United Press Wire Service PRICE 5 CENTS iff Brief School Tour Set A tour of Brazosport schools for school board members, presidents and managers of the Brazoria County and the Brazosport Chambers of Commerce, education committees and members of the press, radio and television will be conducted Monday. The tour is sponsored by the publicity committee of the Brazosport Citizens committee for Texas Public School Week. The tour will begin at 10 a.m. in the foyer of the Brazosport High School and will have lunch served in the homemaking department of the' Lake Jackson Junior High School.

Grand Jury Panel The Grand Jury commissioners met today and were to pick a grand jury for the next district court term in April. For the first lime in Brazoria County two women will, serve on the grand jury commission. The commissioners are J. T. Suggs; Mrs W.

Arringlon; Max Vogan, Alvin; A. O. Evans, Sweeny, and Mrs. Cora Mae Meyer, Angleton. Murder Trial Set The Ed Lewis murder trial begins Monday in Judge T.

M. Gupton's 23rd District Court. The defense attorneys are Welborn and Britt. Prosecution is in charge of District Attorney Sam Lee. Lewis was indicted in the fatal stabbing of Lonnie Woods May 23, 1954.

Both men were from Pearland. A venire of 60 men have been called. Officers Meet The Brazoria County Peace 'Officers Association met last Freeport wJlh Chief. A. J.

Schamerhon. host; Sheriff Jack Marshall, president of the has not been able to attend since he was elected so the meeting was- held by the vice-president. A demonstration and film dealing with narcotics, their illegal use and possible preventive public education against the drugs made up the program. Henry Harris operates new drum Hit at Brazos Harbor HILO, Hawaii lava, boiling furiously from a huge rift that suddenly opened up in the center of town, engulfed the tiny plantation village of Kapoho Friday in a stream of molten rock. The end of Kapoho came at 12:45 a.

m. EST (4:45 a. m. CST), shortly after the village was half- surrounded by two lava prongs nching their way to the sea. The.

335 residents of Kapoho had abandoned their houses and shops two days ago. Besides the houses, the town consisted of two general a tavern and a lictuor store. Most of the buildings were jerry-built. The destruction of Kapoho cli- naxecl an eruption that began Monday at the foot of the Puulcmi cinder cone, a part of the Kilauoa volcano system. -Kilauea is about 25 miles west.

Kapoho's doom was sealed late Thursday night when a fissure suddenly "blew wide open" at the outskirts of the town. At the scene were Volcanologlst Gordon MacDonakl, deputy Htlo Police Chiof George Martin, and MacDonald's' assistant, Curtis Kamai. "We didn't wait around to sec what was coming next," said Kamai. "MacDonald brought us out alive. If it wasn't for his command, we never would have made it." Tq Austin Boundary Line Of Public Area Be Subject Another step toward settlement of the Surfside Beach park problem will be taken in Austin Monday.

There will be a hearing with the com- at the south end of the village was ss i onerS) members of the also spewing forth a fountain of kg Board and inter Koji Iwasakl, a planter, a was on the scene. Kc reported rift had opened through the village and that lava was, "dancing in the streets." He said a cone i'lie fissure that MacDonakl, Mortin and Kamai saw on the outskirts of town unleashed fountains of lava 'that rose hundreds if fuel into the air. Brazos Harbor Shed inning To sue Warning LONDON HP) and, in the House of Commons on the Marine News m. IN, PORT SS Fort 10 a Phillips docks. SS H.

C. Sinclair, 4 p. Phillips docks. Fishing Lines The only fairly consistent fishing seems to be 'they get some -almost every time. Yesterday some pilgrims brought' in a "ice war- saw.

Inside fishing might be good in Oyster Creek or up the Old Brazos. Matagorda has been producing. Weather Forecast Partly cloudy and warm today, tonight and Saturday with moderate to fresh southerly Highest temperature expected today, 82 degrees; low expected tonight, 66 degrees. A low tide at 7:51 p.m. and high tide at.

11:16 p.m. today, Saturday Tides; High. Low a.m. and p.m, -v on''March 9, m) March 17, for England 19 the ship 1 run- ning. to Rotterdam, Holland.

The Brazos Harbor transit shed is filling with cargo to more is coming in every; day. These. cargoes are largely 55-gallon drums filled with chemical exports, from Texas However, shippers of cotton, rice, packaged sulphur and petroleum products are interested in the new harbor's speedy facilities and nearness to the sea. J. Russell Waite says "This is the best steamship servi.ce ever to serve this barbor and it is a fine of what can be done by the combination of first class facilities, local cargo demanding serve this harbor and it is a fine forwarding, agency soliciting such business," The open port on the Brazos River is available to all shippers at equal rates and it is expected that more industries and shippers of world export cargo i soon take advantage of it.

The navigation district is equipping the terminal with more up to the minute cargo handling Will Meet Here Et'f ectiyely and economically deliver your advertising message to greatest potential through Tlie Daily Facts Review, Bought daily The Daily Facts- Review is the only newspaper in thiisiastically read by 30,000 potential customers in port area you? tisement will be' an invited guest in the of nearly 6,000 The Daily is the only advertising mediiun in the part area with of Pythians Set Official Visit Leon C. Lacey, Grand Chan cellor, will make his annual visit to Gulf Lodge No, 197 of the Knights of. Pythias in Velasco Tuesday, March 8. More than 120 members and guests are expected to be presenj; Officers pf the local lodge are Odell Houser, chancellor der; Earl BJackstock; vice chancellor; O. tJarrjs, prelate; Van Herring, rnastfr.

at arms; Smith, Ch.ancellpr Lacey will talk qfl "What Pytianisni Does For Brass osport." Light lunch will be served and tW ew members G. c. MoGarrqll and C. W. Legon will be The facilities noty ow sufficient argo Tnade'vl'up pecial 'products of the jri uantities attractive to the steam- 2 Tickets Given In Three-Way Auto Three oars were in collision at the turnoff to Dow plant at 10:30 p.rsi.

last night on Highway 288. LONJJUN nrt Communist China warned Britain hydrogen bomb. Friday its position and small land area made it a good target for atomic warfare. Both Communist nations, in separate broadcasts, attacked Prime Minister Churchill's speech ested property owners present. It will be held at 1:30 p.

m. in the State Parirs Board afficc, 10(5 East 13th street. A line recommended by W. J. Lewis, county engineer, has been approved by Commissioners Court and has been mapped and sent out to land Owners involved, including the Island Development Co.

This fixed line runs from the jetties bait camp down the beach, about 30 feet to sea from the building, to a point down the beach near Cold Pass. Along this proposed line additional parks would extend inland. yruuBUji uumu. tional paiKS wouiu uxiuuu Radio Moscow, broadcasting an Tney are a bout 200 feet in depth unusually strongly worded editorial and slx to i ht hundred feet it hip lines. This tonnage nucleus oft the rea assures regular stearhship ervice, Waite said.

That, in combination with; the ing. factor dp'er- make' ihb economic; advantage of Harbor considerable, i i So it is expected that the lifted through the new Freeport, "had turn thf plant. The' Mercury 'suf- -damage to the right seibtipn when it was in col-. tiv.i,. a podge driven by Delivery, wen by Gnn verV niSf 2nd Freepg nally within the first $1 operation.

Red Chinese Fog Attack unusuany BHUUBIJT ana slx lu eig'" In Prfcydn, the official Communist Qlong the beach. ntiAA Britain had "legl- where the park areas interfere with the desires of private owners along the beach they will need to take the case into court if the State Parks Board accepts the Plans for the annual spring membership meeting of the Texas 2hemicar Council to be held in Freeport on March 17-and 18 were by Dr. Beutel, general chairman of the meeting. "The program -for the-meeting will include panel discussions on industrial relations, public relations, government relations, and problems confronting the uhemical industry- in Texas," Dr. Beutel said.

Dr. Carey Croneis, provost of Rice Institute, will address the meeting. Texas Chemical Council, an organization open to all Texas chemical manufacturers, has been organized to integrate the chemical industry within the overall industrial development of Texas It has more than 30 members. Officers of the cpuncil are: Harper, Aluminum Company oi America, president; Dunlop, Monsanto Chemical Company, Texas City, vice president, and V. C.

Henrich, Haas Company, Pasadena, secretary-treasurer, vr' Dh-ectbrs include: E. J. Fox, Carbide Carbon Chemical Texas City; E. T. Lindsey; Celanese Corporation of America, Bishop; S.

J. Hultman, Columbia- Southern Chemical Corporation, Corpus S. Rothrock, Consolidated Chemical Industries, Houston; Frank Chrencik, Diamond Alkali Company, Pasadena. Dr. Beutel, Dow Chemical Company, Freeport; D.

B. Campbell, E. I. du Pont de, Nemours Company, Orange; Glenn O. Hayes, Ethyl Corporation, JJouston; G.

A. Bobbins, Frontier Chemical Denver City; T. Lyman, The General Tirp Rubber Company, Baytown; Roche, Koppers Company, Port Arthur; and Glenn Purcell, Shell Chemical estimated? at $200 and to the lilac at Baluselt and Tolctte were given tickets tfo'r passing with insuffici- enctt clearance. Robert Gladney investigated Polite Gunman Turns Wing Killer KiJEMMfcRER, Wyo. sejem- ingly polite gunman suddenly turned a raving two-gun killer Friday, kidnaped it, town marshal and two murdered one and fled with a 17- year-old boy as hostage.

Scores of law enforcement officers immediately mounted the West's biggest manhunt since Badman Billy Cook's rampage of terror nearly five years ago. Police of four states joined TAIPEI, Formosa (IPlThe national military information service reported Friday that 40 Red Chinese gunboats and motorized junks attempted a neak attack on Kaoteng Island in the Matsu group late Friday afternoon. The report said the attack WHS beaten off in a 25-mlnute battle. The Chinese Nationalist government was under sharp attack by its lawmakers Friday for failing to win from U. S.

Secretary State John Foster Dulles a clcai pledge to help defend Quemoy Matsu and other offshore Islands American officials, working with Nationalist military on a sweeping reappraisal of the U. S. military assistance program were reported recommending a shift in emphasis to naval strength to meet such Red attacks. The sneak attack was made un der cover of heavy fog. National sources said the Kao teng garrison met the thrust wit! heavy gunfire.

The Red gunboat replied and an artillery duel en sued After the battle, the Nationalis report said, the invaders fie said Britain had "legi- concern over the presence Britain of American bomber ascs. Pelplng radio, broadcasting an 4. qually strong editorial from the 'etping People's Dally, the official Communist newspaper in Red ihina, accused Churchill of utter- ng "war cries." ChurohlH said Thursday 'he sup- posptL.lihqt in event of a 'hydrogen jomta JJntaln the United States rtmight possibly" counterattack the aggressor prior consultation with Britain. His statement oame during par- lamentary sparring' between himself and Laborlte MP Kenneth Robnson who wanted' assurances the United States would not get its Britain-based planes engaged in my fighting without first consult- Britain. In referring to Churchill's speech Pravda asked: "Who does not know that atomic development carries with it a particular threat for densely-populated countries whose territory Is not very large?" boundary recommendations.

A quick acceptance or rejection by the parks board is expected when the matter is brought before them Monday. Interested people will be attending the Aus' present tin ommendations. Should- 'an Agreement be reacU" pd on the peach park boundary question, Brazoria County Commissioners Court is expected to begin reconsideration of a proposal of Cassidy to build a four- mile road between the new Surfside Bridge and the ende of his property. At a hearing recently, representatives of the company requested the court to appoint a jury-of-view with the idea of condemning necessary right-of-way for the road. Three-fourths of the necessary right-of-way has already been offered for the road.

Services Set Monday Corporatipn, Deer Park. FreeportJaycees northward. Funeral services will be held Monday, March 7, 11. a.m. at the Presbyterian Church of Lake Jackson, Reverend Stewart officiating.

Interment with military rites will be at the Woodland Garden of Memories Cemetery in Houston, 3:30 p.m. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Irma V. Hoefle; Mr. and Mrs.

Paul B. Hoefle of Houston; one daughter, Ann Hoefle, and one son, Donald D. Hoefle, both of Eureka, three sisters, Mrs. Verna Smith, Mrs. Alma Sanders and Mrs.

Mary Little Bat- lage, all of Houston, and three brothers, Paul Hoefle and Ralph Hoefle, both in the U. S. Navy, and Roland Hoefie In Pennsylva- Hoefle was a veteran of World War II and Korea. He had worked at Texas Dow since 1053 where he died of natural causes'yester- day morning about 7 a.m. He lived at 317 Wisteria St.

in Lake Jackson. The Freeport' 7aycee meeting Is bejrjg sold fpr $1, to nntinnc fnr- thft-rf falKhin' PiSStB I lm' 'f LBQWliASBV cations for membership and the safety program were Nat Hjckey. of the which is to be 2, 3 4, A committee wfll be ed to select the £iejta ters. Presently tion are the Alamo-Fre minal, Fr ing. A decision on the home expected next week, Quam, 'Wes and BQt ham were appointed to cfl tee to meet hysinessn see if the home show jor winning the i7 drive in the area a plague will be awarded at the state COnyeAU 0 in San Antonip, Jackson and Velascq cliifes will compete here.

More details art te Toe announced later, were named co-chairmen )n, charge of. the gram, 1 cAniP iin -n Kgypt- troops the part of Sinai ennouneed policy being ready to meet force force, CowBPil was in Ne.w Vork at p. m. CST Bgypt'sfJ of "aggression," by Raxa strip isid the 'bis a mere lor- wftl have m. mem.

GUARD UNIT'S NEW om County's aw the company's new and Sgi. of Jones tank) te among- national guarOsmjii who will reeew training tank is gpmpleteJy outfitted with a jWmm Its speed te at a hour. The tante pyictiep wta witt County Fsirgfounds at unit.