The Camden News from Camden, Arkansas • Page 1

TEMPER ATUBTK The Temperature for the 24 hour period ending 7 a. m. Saturday was: High 56. Low 29, River 6:38 feet rising VOLUME xxv NUMBER IDC NEWS WEATHKK ARKANSAS Partly cloudy through Sunday. A liUlc warmer this afternoon and tonight.

SERVING THE SOUTH'S IDEAL INDUSTRIAL AREA (t) Associated Frew ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1054 (UP) OnlUd Preia Red China To 'Liberate' Formosa Mutual Security Pact Means Little To Reds TOKYO China said today It will "liberate" Formosa despite the mutual security treaty signed this week by the United and Nationalist China, Pei- pTng Radio reported. "The Chinese people will never tolerate this," the broadcast said. It quoted the Pepple's Daily, official organ of the Chinese Communist party. The newspaper called the treaty naked war provocation against the Chinese people" and repeated the Red government's oft-voiced threat that- "the Chinese, people will liberate Taiwan. The article also attacked appeal to the Red Chinese not vo launch any "precipitate action" against The British statement "can only be Interpreted as a support for the U.

Kai-shek treaty and an encouragement to American aggressive activities," the article saJd. Gas Hearing Testimony Ends Film To Be shown At Fairview Monday A film entitled "How to Conduct a Discussion," will be shown in the Fail-view auditorium Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Eugene Hart, parent education chairman, has tried for many months to secure this film for Fairview patrons to see. Miss Ruth Sims will lead a discussion period following the film. Parent of Fairview students and the general public are urged to atend this discussion and see the film.

Pope Pius In Improved Condition Doctors Dispell Fear Of Cancer For Pontiff Bv STAN SW1NTON VATICAN CITY 0 Pius XII got a little bctlcr again today and specialists dispelled fears that the seriously ailing- pontiff has Two clinical experts who took part in a bedside conference last midnight said the Pope wa.s not suffering from a tumoral sac of the digestive tubes. The 78-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church suffered a collapse Thursday that brought him close to death. But his sturdy TT I heart pulled him through that LITTLE ROCK The Arkansas crisis and through the hours that Public Service Commission yester-j allowed him to strengthen day ended its hearings on Arkan-j "Everything looks belter" Di sa.s Louisiana Gas $3,654,000 rate Increase application. At intervals since September, Luciano Casimiri, a a i an spokesman, said as he returned to the papal apartment earlier today to Issue the morning communique the commission had heard more than 20 days of testimony in the! The Pope wa.s "resting fairly case. A final decision probably i easily in his white-walled bed not be handed down by the chamber in the.

Vatican palace for weeks. Despite grave weakness, his morn- Opposhifc attorneys have been ing included conferences with lead- given until Dec. 15 to file briefs I ing prelates interpreted here as outlining legal points in support of probably edsigned to two ends: I their contentions. The higher ra.tes 1. Delegation of some of hisi already are being collected by the duties during his severe illness company under a bond which in- 1 2.

Preparation for a. possible refunds to the consumer if i bedside consistory at which the the company's application is re- six vacancies In the college of car- fuseo, dinals would be filled. A request by P. A. Lasloy, Ar wa.s fore- The announcement pertinwit points in opposition idlencc with the Pope and reported iefs was granted by PSO chair- rinding him "much better and PRICE FIVE CENTS man Lewis RobisnoH.

Robinson said he and his two colleagues expect to rule on the case before, possible replacement by Orval Faubus. Faubus takes office in mid-January. Nine Former KKK Members Convicted WILMINGTON, N. C. alleged former members of the Ku KIux Klan were convicted here yesterday for kidnaping and flogging.

The cases were the last legal action pending against alleged Klan activities in eastern North Carolina. During a three-year crackdown 101 persons were of kidnaping, flogging and sorted charges. more, cheerful." CHRISTMAS is the Santa Clans scene at the Christmas parade Friday night and St. Nick is throwing candy to the crowd. He was riding atop! the.

Camden truck. shows "ocUon oi' the thousands that'lined' the streets for the parade. (Photos by Bracken) REV W. V. GRANT Rev.

W. V. Grant, nationally known Evangelist, begins a revival at the First Assembly of God Church at Short and Center Streets in Camden on Sunday December 5. Services begin each evening at 7 p. in.

for lwo weeks. The church and pastors extends an invitation to the public to hear PJV. Grant. Rev. Grant is known for preaching the old time Gospel in a very simple, easily understood way.

Very interesting! You used tlmx; News Want Ads, hut which one got the results?" Six Negroes Hurt In Auto Wreck Six Negroes were admitted to the Ouachila county hospital as a result of an accident involving two cars at 11:30 p. m. last night on Gibson street in the southeast part of Camden. The Benjamin F. Williams Funeral Home ambulance answered a call and carried the injured to the hospital.

Admitted lo the hospital were R. G. Porchin, Willard Porchia, Albert Porchia, Olden Chandler, Cardine Cazy and Louis Thompson Jr. According to reports all were suffering from numerous lacerations and abrasions. Camden Cily Police the accident occured on Gibson street In the southeast portion of Camden in I front of the Hillside Cafe.

Police say a 1950 Chevrolet driven by Or- lando Ausbcrry headed south on Gibson and a 1941 Chrevolet driven by Olden Chandler collided head i on. The police said Chandler was! driving north as he topped the hill. Police say that there were nine people involved in the collision, five in one car and four in the other. Police told a reporter this morning that Chandler will be cited in I the accident as soon as his condi lion is clarified by doctors. Stalled Jets Borrow Breeze WIESBADEN, Germany U.S.

Snbcrjets, stalled on a tiny airstrip in borrowed a brecnc from a training plane to take off, the Air Force reported today. The jets were en route to Tripoli when they set down at Cagliari, Sardinia, because of minor fuel difficulties. They couldn't get off a.gain because the strip has no jet starling unit. Maj. Charles E.

(Chuck) Yeager, famed Air Force lesl pilot, hopped into a T33 jet trainer at Ramstcin Air Base in Germany and flew lo Cagliari. He pul his liltle trainer about 15 feet in front of the first jet's a.ir intake and let his tailpipe exhaust do the rest. The second Saber start was as smooth. Boih pilots took off and Yeagcr flew home again. Magnolia Man Gets New Post NEW YORK B.

Pullar president of the. Berry Asphalt of Magnolia, has been elected chairman of the Execullve Committee of Hie Asphalt Institute. The institute represents the major part of the petroleum asphalt production of the United Stales and Canada. Everett Pickett Died Saturday Everett W. Picketl, aged 44, for- mer mayor of Bcnton, andi native of Camden, died in land Park Hospital, Shreveport, La.

i at 4 a. m. Saturday. He was criti-l cally injured in an automobile ac-j cirlent after a visit lo' Camden few years ago and his wife was' killed in this accident Mr, Pickett never fully recovered 1 He was a graduate of Camden! high school and played on Camden 1 Panther football teams in 1929-30 and had attended a football ban-i quet honoring Coach Sam Colemanj just a short lime before the cident. Osborne funeral home in Shreveport, is in charge of arrange-j moots and funeral is set for 3 p.

m.j Sunday at Shreveport where wife is buried. He is survived by! his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W.

Pickett of Camrien, and brothers and sisters, and a son. Cullendale Church Special Services The Assembly of God Church of Cullendale has announced special services for Sunday. The Reverend Harold David Burris, District Sunday School Supervisor for the Assembly of Churches, will be speaking in the 11:00 a. in services. The public has been cordially Invited to attend.

The Rev. Howard Watkins is pastor of the Culleudale church. Five Members of Ship's Crew Drowned SYDNEY, N. S. crewmen of the Canadian tus Rouella drowned yesterday when the 85- ton foundered in mountainous waves during Atlantic News of the tragedy a few miles off Cape Smokcy.

N. wa.s brought here today by the Gloucester. trawler Emily Brown, whicli arrived with i.vc survivors of the tug. Tlie rescued men spent four hours in an open lifeboat before they were picked up. Five Children Die In Fire CLEVELAND children died in a flush tire at an East Side apartment house early today.

Fire Chief Clarence Ryan sn.icl the children all were on the third floor of the building and probably were suffocated in their sleep. The children wore Identified as Frank Johnson, his sisters. Estella Lou, 3, and Janice, fi; and James Duvall 4 and Vicki Du- vtill 2. The pn.re.nl of the Duvall children, James Duall, 24, and his wife, Roberta, 21 were in then- downstairs apartment when the fire broke out. Mrs.

R. Johnson 24, mother of the other three victims, Wa.s visiting her sister nearby when a neighbor notified her of the fire. 'Ex-POW Helps Break Dope Ring COLUMBUS, Ohio Narcotics Agent AI Cook said today a bin narcotics ring was cracked here last nmht. by usins ia former prisoner of war nf the Chinese Reds in the role of a dope 1 addict. Officials IfT'Vc Dona.ld Spaffnrd, 27-year-old sheriff's deputy and former prisoner of war, a bin of credit for sucr-i-ss of the iraid in which 10 men were arrested, all Qhioan.s.

Spafford, thin frnm months of imprisonment wlu-n his weight dropped to wa.s sPk-ct- i-ci as thr "lure" partly because of hi.s uli.unt. appearunct-. he was introduced to susportod dope pushers hen- by another, Korean War vet, who wanted help break up the ring. Authorities said the r.iid was the largest land most successful narcotics crackdown staged here. Officers said Spaflord played his danccroiis role to perfection and had sockiim lum out to make feale.s.

Durum weeks of minglinif with the narcniies clan, the Korean War vet WHS armed only with a kmle. agents cMimated the gajig's (business at daily, based qn sale ol one ounce of heroin per tiny. An o.inre of the drug caji be diluted in make 500 each helling lor $3 t(i $4. Missouri Man To Retain Valuable Land Title To Wheat Acreage Decided By Court WICHITA, Kan. James E.

Ely, 74, El Dorado Springs, Missouri, will regain title to 10800 acres of western land in a of his million dollar suit against a group of Illinois educators, Ely filed the suit. April 29, 1952, against four men associated with Whcaton fill.) College and the Wheaton World Colportage Assn. Ely contended he nave, the land and $90,000 to the association with the agreement that the association would publish his writings on religion. He the association did not keep the agreement. The land Scott, Finney, Cove and Gray counties is in oil and gas producing area but has not been developed for either oil or gas.

Attorneys said W. W. Urban, court-appointed receiver, reported the last three crops on the land brought in about SH5.000. The attorneys the settlement provides thn.l the Colportage Association retain the $90,000, with Ely paying an additional $25,000 to cover the cost of litigation, The defendants in the action! were Raymond Edman, Wheaton' College president; Robert C. Van Kampen, V.

C. Hogren and P. 1 Kenneth Gieser. trustees of the. Colportage Association.

Doctor Sues Spa Hospital Board HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (IV; Dr. Alex Bcncdikt has sued the Qua- chita General Hospital's Board of i Governors for the right, to practice medicine and place patients in the new city-county institution. The suit wa.s filed yesterday ini Judge. Sam Garrctt's Chancery Court here.

i The doctor charges that officials' of the hospital have refused his patients admittance and declined i permission for him to practiccmed- icine at the hospital because he is! not a. member of i Garland- County Medical Society. I J. Darrcl Wear, hc.fi of the hospital's Board of Governors anrl I members of the board were not 1 available for comment. Dr.

attorney, Richard Hobbs, said that according to a. recent ruling from the attorney general's office a public cannot refuse to allow licensed doctor the. right tice medicine. The ruling "Definitely states that! membership in a society or other! organization is not a. prc-requisitc to practicing medicine in hospitals." Hobbs said.

The Board of Governors based! its decision on the hospital's gov-j crning by-laws which state that ai physician must be a member ofj the Garland County Medica.i ty before he can gain admission- to the hospital. Prosecuting Attorney H. A. Tuc-i ker said the matter "is one for! the courts to Mount Ida Airman Killed In Auto NEW BRAUNFELS, Tex. M'I Billy Aston of Mount Ida, stationed at Berstrom Air Force Bn.se, Austin, was killed yesterday when his car ran into an embankment nca here.

Officers said the airman apparently fell asleep while driving. Highway Plan For States Studied Governors Urge U. S. Program For 10 Years Parade Dra Thousands Camden Fr hospital a duly; to prac-1 the heautil'ul sce NATIVITY SCENE Pageant of the Holy Nativity" will prtUnted twice Sunday at the First Methodist Church and this is on in the pageant. It i i i- i i I.

1 IV I I I 1 I LI I I (pi lilt IJtltlcllll J.U shows the wise men and Joseph and Mary with infant Jesus. Th Ndlivity be presented in music and panlomine with a narrator and tho Chancel arid'Vesper choirs will I l-i 4 1 i i i 11 TJ) II' I I i ,1 II ri i in of ii.it i (i IUUBJL: emu wun a iiiirnuor ana me ar by the lhe W. Denny is director and Miss Mary Lou I selection was announced today, music wilh Miss Elizabeth Copelan'd as organist. (Photo by Snider's). Mystery Writer On Crime Panel LITTLE ROCK (ffi Mystery' writer Erie Stanley Gardner heads i a list of crime experts on a scries of panel discussions here today, The all-day meeting at Robin-! son auditorium, open to the public I is sponsored by the Arkansas Bar Association.

G.t.rdncr is creator of the fictional lawyer-detective, Perry Mason. The writer is a one-time, practicing lawyer himself. Participanting with Gardner in the discussions were Harry Stee-1 par, publisher of Argosy Dr. Lejnoyne Snyder of Lansing, i a medico-legal expert; Marshall Houts of Los Angles, former FBI official, and Park Street, San Antonio lawyer. Argosy published a continuing feature entitled the "Court of Last Resort." which was originated by Gardner and is credited with ini4 innocent men Iroin! prison.

i In iui interview yesterday, ncr declared that "politics be removed from the. police dc-i partmcius." He also said ofliccrs' should receive more pay, increases. i Cullendale Seal Sale Report Rex WhilchoUHc, chairman in Ciillendalo for the Ouachita county Tuberclosis Association, scni in for the first week returns for the Annual Christmas Seal Sale. Total amount of returns Including Camden $9190.50. La.sl year the Ouachila County citizens gave $3444.51 to support i Ihe work ol the TB Association.

Ait least $5,000.00 will be needed to carry on projects planned for 1955 Whitehouse said. feel confident that all Qua- chita county families will Rive careful consideration to the facts in heir Christmas Seal letters and by generous purchases of Christ- mas Seals during the campaign i from November 22 through December will give their mandate for a much more intensive eflont aimed at del eating tuberculosis, WASHINGTON, recommendation by the nation's governors that the federal government spend 25 billion dollars on a 10- year highway plan was being studied today for possible inclusion in President Eisenhower's 1955 legislative, program. Gov. Robert F. Kennon of Louisiana yesterday presented the plan lo Eisenhower, who was reported "very pleased" wilh il.

The program calls for building a nationwide interstate highway system and urges Ihe states "to match federal spending. Tlic governor's recommendations will be turned over to the President's advisory committee on a national highway program, which will study them before making its own. suggestions to the While House. Eisenhower is expected to include a highway program in his State of the. Union message to Congress next month.

Gen. Lucius D. Clay, chairman of the advisory committee, yesterday laid still another highway plan before the conference of mayors, here for a series of briefings by federal officials. The program outlined by Clay would call or dcderal spending of 26 billion dollars the next 10 years to supplement stale and city highway projects. Any plan would hrt.vn to be approved by Congress.

The covernor's plan would be i an addition to normal state and! federal highway spending. chairman of the governors' conference, said the 10-year road program might thus reach 90 billions. APL Asks For Rate Rehearing LITTLE ROCK (JF) Arkansas Power Light Co. has asked Pu-i laski Circuit Court to order a re-! hearing by the Slate Public Sc.r-' vice Commission on the company's! application for a yearly rate boosl of $3.900,000. The PSC recently denied the application at the.

conclusion of its hea.ring, and refused a company petition for a re-hearing earlier this week. In its appeal filed wilh the- court yesterday, claims tho commission erred v3 times in rejecting the application. I PSC had ruled in cornier- tion with the application that, money invested in new facilities under construction couldn't be in-' eluded in the rate ba.se until facilities were in operation. i contends in the appeal that this ruling "is completely 1 contrary to the concept, of a pru-' dent investment rale base, under which Ihe investor's dollar is cn-i titled to earn from the lime it is i invested or at least from the time- it Ls spent. Circuit Judge Guy Amsler will hear the appea.l.

He ordered the. PSC to file a transcript of its hearing in the case with the court! within 30 days. i The power company been charging higher rates, caccula.tt-d to bring it the extra income re- queste.d, since last July. It as a $2.000.000 bond posted for refunds of ihc excess charges to customers if the ultimate decision is against the Stale law allowed such temporary ra.te increases by public- utilities, providing bond is posted Man Killed By Two Trucks ENGLAND. Ark iflt A old man was killed on Highwriv 30 ncar hero a.boul 3 la.sl night when lie wa.s hit hy two trucks a.s he altompted to cross' thr highway.

Stale Trooper W.A. Tudor said that the victim. Ooleman Oullurn oi England, hit by an oastr i bound pickup truck driven by i Turner Johnson, 44, of England, and then was Lhrown into the pa.th ol a westbound truck driven by' Ollin Hujhes, also of England. Herbert W. Walters Assigned To Japan HAKATA, Japan Cpl.

Herbert W. Walters, whose wife, Odie. lives at 448 Clifton, Camden, Ark recently left Korea with the 24i.h Infantry Division which has been assigned Hakata. Japan. The "Victory" division has been in the Far East since World War Walters, son of Thomas L.

Walters Route 3, Is an ammunition non-commissioned officer in Tank Company of ithe division's 34th Int fantry Regiment. He entered the i Army in December 1952 and arriv- 1 ud overseas in February ol' this year. Christmas Event Centered On Christ's Life Thousands of kiddies, their parents and grandparents, uncles aunts and all the kintolks lincri Camden's downtovvTi Friday night, for the 1054 parade marking the opening of the Christmas season. It was the greatest yuif parade In history and police cstimatr; at least people were on thr; streets, maybe more. There wan no way to count them but motorists say there were about 5,000 aulos, trucks and other in the traffic Police handled the traffic job well and they were ably assisted by firemen, stale police and county officers.

Downtown streets wore closed to traffic and some areas were roped off entirely and kiddies were allowed to roam at will in those streets. There were over 30 floats and all were of the Holy Nativity theme centered around Christ's eariv lii'p and birth. Most of the floats "were sponsored by churr-hes, white and colored, but there were also some. PTA, school and club floats ami several robed choirs The Boy Scouts also marched in Ihe parade and at the close Santa Clan-, on the bright reel fire truck. Six bands look part in the parade also and they played rehpjnns and ChriPtmas music.

The were Hampton, Srnackover. Fan-view, Lincoln hiu'n school, training band and senior band. The band required more than 30 minutes to pnss one point. The floats were beautiful ant) Uiir; was the most Inspiring even! in Camden or South history. Street.

lights decorations were up downtown arid in all the stores. Some of tho themes I'or the were appears to "No Room in the "Tlie Holy Nativity," "The in (he "The Watch," "Visit of the Wise Men," "The of Gcthsemano," "Thr- Supper," "The Watch at the "Parable of the Good "Sermon on the Mount." and "Je Blesses Little Children." TKe retail merchants division the Chamber of Commerce sponsored the parade and Monroe Dixon wa.s parade chairman. After the parade wa.s o'-er Chorus inidor OK- direction of Mrs. J. O.

Plummrv sriim on a. special platform outside the Mr-th- odist church. Beautiful carols were sung by this outstanding men's vocal Mi 1 Mary Henry was af-r-oinpanist-. This was a fitting climax to Ihn pni'iide everil which always linger in the of (n-. who saw it On behalf of the retail division.

Chairman Carl KIIIL- lo- day wanted to thank yll who a part, in the parade assisted in making it T- included all lions 1 floats, police, firemen, coiintv city officials, radio Camden News, bands, everyone. St. Francis County Fourth In Seals NEW YORK Arknii'- Francis County finished fou nnlion-wide competition on ii oi Christinas First place In the Si-ranac Luke. thf mo.st seals per iin: thr Iir.st three. oi drive sponsored by im Tuberculosis Tho York town ri world piemioie nf tin.

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