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Quick Rtsulti Dla I GY6-2868 AY, OCTOBER 2. 1961 BEIRUT, Lebanon broadcasts called on the Syrian people to revolt today against their revolutionary regime. President Gamal Abdel Nasser declared the Syrians now were fighting to save their "unity." Ignoring denials from Damascus that fighting against the rebel regime is taking place, Nasser declared in a speech a(. a student rally in Cairo: "Tjbe Syrian peo- ple who struggled against forms of imperialism.will give the exploiters a chance to rule." But Nasser conceded the setback in Syria might set off a reaction of "treason throughout the Arab nations." He blamed mistakes, conceit and trickery for the success of the revolt. As Cairo opened tip on his four- day-old regime that broke away from Nasser's United Arab Re- public, Syrian Premier Mamoun Kuzbari moved swiftly, to rid Syria of Nasser influence.

The Syrian government appeared firmly in control but Kuz- bari was taking no chances. He banned all demonstrations, dosed all schools and universities, extended the curfew, and outlawed the Syrian branch of Nasser's National Union party. An American traveler, arriving here from Damascus, said the NASSER Gamal' Abdel Nasser explained to some 250,000 persons jammed into Al Goumhourla Square in Cairo that he called off his military operation because he did not wont "Arab fighting Arab." (NEA Radio-Telephoto.) Syrian capital appears enthusiastic about last week's revolt but. Of the ordinary people will say a word against Nasser. Nasser is still a top man." The U.A.R.

president broke off diplomatic-relations with and first two countries to recognize the Syrian reb el regime. He charged them a "hostile attitude." The move was interpreted in Cairo as a warning to other ua- tions "against According recognition to the Damascus government. But Nationalist China announced recognition Sunday night, and Damascus radio said Guatemala also had recognized lew regimK The Jirst batch of thousands of Egyptians ordered expelled fawn Syria arrived here Sunday night. They included 500 civiliansMstu- dents, teachers, technicians and their families. None of tian officers and military nel rounded up by the ists was in the group.

Caird's powerful governfnent- controlled radio stations upon the Syrian people to rise up against the Kuzbari regtitti and strike against up Syrian people get out and fight commentator Galal whose voice is known to In the Arab world. Kuzbari told a delegatfoil trade 'unions in Damasoua his government "extends an opfn hand to all Arab aid to Egypt in 20 TexansLose Their Lives In Violence Daring Weekend '1 By THE Five per; Texas a-tav west as the weekend violent death toll in the state climbed to at least 20 persons. Eleven of the were blamed on The covered the Friday until rted deaths mishaps, tabulation from 6 p.m. Sunday. Three men, a woman and baby died in a car-truck crash on the west edge of Dryden in far West Texas Saturday.

All of the dead were from Brownsville. The dead were identified as Mrs. Ninfa Salinas, 17; her two-weeks- old son, Pedro Salinas Carlos Castillo, 27, owner and driver rf the auto; Pedro Castillo, 16, brotfr- CITY BEAT. The Black Cat Quarterback Club will see a foptbgll film, hear a scouting rep9t on McGregor, hear coaches' reports, and discuss projects during the weekly meeting tonight at 7:90 in tfte high school agriculture room. Final plans are being made for the big dedication service this Sunday at the First Methodist Church.

The Mexia Methodists have sent out invitations to many guests and virtually all former members to attend the special service and hear Bishop William Martin deliver the morning message. The Rev. Cecil Ellis, former pastor, now at Hillsboro, will preach the evening service. The dedication is for the sanctuary, completed in Cub Scout a leaders from the Trinisota District fljeet tonight at 7:30 in the Gibbs Memorial Library. Ken Pearson says the topic of the evening will be "Conducting Den Meetings." Cubmas- ters.

Den Mothers, assistants and Cub parents are urged to be present. er of Carlos, and Gustavo Medina 20. Soviet; Union Wants Temporary Chief As Secretariat Of U.N. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) -'The Soviet Union has announced a plan to name a temporary chief of the U.N.

secretariat unhampered by a veto. But the candidate would have to meet with Soviet approval. The proposal, previously reported by informed diplomats, was spelled out Sunday night in a statement from the Soviet delegation. The General Assembly would choose a man to head the U.N. secretariat until April 1963, but he would have to work in cooperation with three deputies.

None would have a veto. The assembly would make its selection on the recommendation of the Security Council. cus radio reported. "We ready to establish Arab based equality! The Syrian premier had earlier that Egyptian dominate of the United Arab prompted the revolt. He pi the return of Syria to par! ary and constitutional life as as possible.

The Syrian arena. A large crowd attended the rodeo which was put on for a charity purpose. Floyd Williams went to Corsicana Sunday for the annual reunion of Company of the 359th unit in which he served during the first world war. Got a card in the mail this morning from Woodrow Perkins, who, with his wife, are on an expense-paid trip to the Hawaiian Islands. The couple won the contest while at a convention in Dallas last winter.

Mr. Perkins wrote: "This must be mighty close to paradise. The scenery is almost unbelievable." Justice of the Peace Albert Gilbreath said the automobile swerved across U. S. 90 going into a curve and collided with the far side of a big freight van.

James Cooper. 38, died in a Sunday morning shooting in southeast Dallas. Officers questioned a 64- year-old Dallas man. Clayton Nebgen, 24, was killed Saturday night when a car overturned on a farm road two miles east of Fredericksburg. A one-car accident 14 miles west of Andrews in West Texas Friday night killed John Edgar Carrigan, 45, of Andrews.

George Dave Holleway, 50, of Sweetwater, died Friday night and his wife suffered serious injuries in a car truck collision near Bronte, in West Texas. A 2-year-old girl burned to death Houston early Saturday when fire swept through the upper floor of a frame apartment building. She was Debra Aim Lane, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Lane.

Belton Hooper, 47, of Dallas, was shot and killed Saturday following an argument on the front porch of a 19 year-old youth's home. The youth fled after the shooting but police captured him a short time later. Pauline Swonke, 6, was struck and killed by a car in the family's driveway in Houston late Saturday. Her father, Joe N. Swonke, 37, said the accident occurred as he pulled into the driveway.

Mike Fox, 14, son of a prominent ment had broken out in Afeppo big industrial center in the north An American living Jh Aleppo, reached by telephone from Beirut, said the city was quiet. There were indications of tensions in Syria, however, and the country's borders remained closed. Foreign newsmen were turned back at border- points for the fourth straight day. Rites Conducted In Groesbeck For Longtime Resident GROESBECK Funera services lor Mrs. Zerrilea Rasco Raborn, 82, who lived most of hei ife in Groesbeck, were held Saturday ai 4 p.

m. in the Shelton Fun eral Chapel. The Rev. Ben Stonier, pastor of the First Baptist Church, con cicted the rites and was assisted by Mr. Roy Waldrum, minister the Church of Christ.

was in the Faulkenberry cemei.e- Bond Boosters To Meet Tonight, 7:30 Mexia Band Boosters CTub will meet tonight at 7:30 for an impor- Childress physician. Dr. Jack F. Other Scout functions will be held in Mexia this evening. Boy Scouts of Troops 85 and 70 are reminded of the Board of Review to be held at their respective meetings.

Scouts should bring a list of any special insignia due them so It can be ordered and received in time for the Court of Honor on October fl, Pearson added. Carl Maisen of Mexia won the $25 Savings Bond at Dick Scott Ford. Registration was conducted Friday and Saturday during the new car showing. Garland Copeland said more than 400 persons registered for tip sayings bond. tant meeting according to an announcement by the president, Dr.

H. R. Martin. The meeting will be held in the Black Cat Band Hall. Plans will be made for the band to attend Band Day to represent Mexia at the State Fair on East Texas Band Day.

Other important matters concerning band activities will be discussed and all members are urged to attend. All persons interested in the Black Cat Band are invited to attend the meeting. Fox, was found hanged Saturday night in his home. Elisa Ann Hardy, 22-month-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs.

Robert C. Hardy of San Antonio, drowned Saturday in a swimming pool in San Antonio. Henry A. Schwanx, 58, a farmer, was found shot to death Sunday in a pasture near his home about 12 miles east of San Antonio. A ruling of suicide was returned by Dr.

Royal Lea, deputy county medical examiner. James Rigsbee, 67, was found hanged Sunday in a closet at the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital in Fort Worth where he was a patient. Justice of the Peace Whit Boyd returned a verdict 01 suicide.

Rigsbee's hometown was not known. Airman Bobby Barker, 20, ot A native of Livingston, Mrs iaborn died Friday afternoon a 3 o'clock in the Golden Rest Home at Marlin, where she had been living for about tbt'fle months. Mrs. Raborn fell and broke her hip on June 10 and had been in declining health since that time. She was a Baptist.

Mrs. Raborn was married to Jhe late Jesse Louis Raborn in September of 1902. be beard on night's presented at die Jayceo ioduu Six other children survive. Mother of Mexia Resident Dies Funeral services for Mrs. T.

A. Smith. 85, mother of C. E. Smith i Victoria" drowned Sunday 'ufoey of Mexia, will be conducted Tues-lils River near Del Rio after help iday afternoon in Rising Star.

Bur-l in nis roach shore. He was in Rising Star. at UUfihJin Force Gary Deaii Bradley. 4, of Mar ion County, drowned Sunday ii lake of the pines Marshal in East Texas. He fell off a tonight at 7:30 at the Gibbs Mem- Mrs.

Smith died at the home orial Library and ail members are of a daughter in Fort Wortn, but asked by President Buddy Fergu- had lived most of her life to Rls- 800 to be present. A report will Ing Star. She a native of OTIXANS 4 NBA COMPLETE FEATURE SERVICE Tourists Stranded As Their Airliner Fails To Show Up SHANNON, Ireland (AP) Stranded for five days after a nostalgic trip to Ireland that into a nightmare, 103 Americans today were promised a plane ride home. The chartered airliner that was to pick them up at Shannon Air port last Wednesday finally arrived. The Americans slept in chairs flbWsfSf the Cairo broadcasts saying a revolt nir of them out oi against the revolutionary govern- njoney, some of them ill, babies wailing.

The group from the Irish-Amer ican Erin's Own Club of Chicago who came to Ireland a month ago for a vacation, scraped up $15 Sunday night to send a cabled appeal "please he us" to President Kennedy. Kevin Carty, club president The Soviets have a veto in the Security Council and could rejecl any candidate they disliked. The Soviet statement said U.S. jress reports had distroted the soviet position and charged that object was to mislead public opinion and whitewash the position of those seeking to subordinate the U.N. staff to one coiin- or group of countries and to "destroy its truly international nature." April 1963 would have marked the end of the second five-year term of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold.

who died in a plane crash Sept. 18 in Northern Rhodesia, first by the Security Council and For the past year, the Soviet Union had sought to replace Ham- marskjold with a men. Communist. Western and neutral, each holding a veto. His permanent replacement under the U.N.

charter would require action then by the General Assembly. To avoid an immediate showdown over the troika, Ireland. HIDE AND East German police border patrol the border of the Communist sector wtih orders to shoot anyone trying to escape East Berlin, as East German refugee's- play a grim game of hide and seek with the guards. (NEA Telephoto.) Marriage, Divorce Data Is Announced From Groesbeck GROESBECK Eight Norway and others, with a Hays Gifford. 49, sister of'marriage licenses were issued to support, have been promoting a iH Hays Mexia, were heldjcouples from the office of Lime- plan to have the assembly alone! tnis a te moon at 2 o'clock inlstone County Clerk John Kidd name one man on a temporary Bethe Cnurch at Henderson.

The during September. ''I! 8 Rev. J. Morris Bailey, pastor of' Licenses were issued to the fol- The Soviet delegation said it the Fjl st Melhodisl offi would reject any attempts toj a et impose upon the General Assem- jal wi be Bethe Funeral Rites Are Held Today For Mrs. Gifford Funeral services for Mrs.

Vir- bly a one-sided solution in circumvention of the Security Council." it. i in the few tery at Henderson under direc- lowing couples: Melvin Eugene Yarbrough to Linda Kay Simpson: Homer Dwighl Cherry to Patricia Ann tion of the Corley Funeral Home Mann: Johnny Edward Lee to of Mexia. Mrs. Gifford diedJBetty Ann Wetzel; Benny Lee ri evemns in in proposal on the temporary administration of the secretariat." This, it said, is that the assem-l had been in ill health. thejGraves to Mattie Mae I'erry; Zack Bradley to Nora Knight; Danny Lee Lummus to Idell Ferguson; Cecil Garvin Parker to A mo, 11 ooiu, to iiiui LUC bly on recommendation of the Sel' ers and most of curity Council "will invite a man who is well known in United Nations circles to serve as chief" Mrs.

Gifford had lived in Hen- Carol Jean Locke: and Rudolph Morris to Maggie Cook. Seven divorce suits were filed in the office of district clerk Mrs. her life. Others surviving are her mother, Mrs. Homer Hays of Hen- Mary D.

Btidde in September. suits owi The Soviet proposal also calls Havs ol San Anton Hobertj lowing couples: for naming three deputies "who and the Rev. Edward Salmon, mow work in the administrative Hays ot Alice, and Jerry Hays of curator of St. Gabriel's church. Chicago, signed the cable.

Carty said the club paid $30,000 to charter the plane from the President Air Lines for the trip that brought many back to Ireland on their first visit in years. Key Mellor, a Chicago nurse, tended the sick among the vaca- tionists that included seven children. Mrs. Mellor was worried she might lose her job for staying away too long. Ih the airport the men who spent their fifth night on the there, stretched and looked gratefully at the DC7C, the same airline whose plane Crashed in the Shannon Estuary with the loss of 83 lives Sept.

10 Chicagoans faced another' of waiting, however, for they vere told takeoff is not until i body of the secretariat and whoj are highly qualified international; officials from the U.S.S.R., the! United States and one of the coun- i tries of Asia or Africa." "The soviet delegation." said the release, "has made it clear i Calvary Baptist To Have Layman's Day Next Sunday Layman's Day will be observed hat it does not have in mind lext Slmday morning at lhe Cal- the utilization of the veto on the vary Baptist Church in Mexia, the part of any of these deputies to Hev pas the provisional chief He must. annminml daiy Ua Activities of the mornins will Roy Blacknall vs. Myrtle Rae Blacknall. Adice Byrd vs. Charlie Byrd.

Manuel Mott vs. Winford Ruth Mott. Geraldine Asberry vs. George Asberry, Jr. Vertie Reed vs.

Lanell Reed. Ara Irene Pope vs. J. M. Pope.

Jewell Carter vs. Lee Carter. Election Date Set with his depu.es and seek to jn wi(h rs hl ea kfastJ A MamfonanrD achieve mutual agreement with- alBlho hutrh 7 An lddress Ufl Ol In Am mti ni itmt unit? i Dams In Limestone them on major TOMATO PICKER ADMITS STABBING will be delivered by a layman Irom Alton. Dr. H.

L. Evans. Layman's testimony on the subject, "What Christ Means To Me," will be given by Cecil Asher, p.m.—local time. WABASH, Ind. Aiomato; Eddie New Esmund Cundieff picker from Texas has signed a Moncrieff will lead the statement in the fatal stabbmg of sii wil direc the nnnthor mioruiit fmlrl tha another migrant field worker, the state police has reported.

Surviving are two Mrs. Hester Ellis of daughters. Groesbeck and Mrs. Mae Peyton of Giddings; two sons, Otis L. Raborn of Puerto Rico and Isaac L.

Raborn of Huachuca City, a Miss Columbia Rasco of sister. Groesbeck; two brothers, Bernice co and Sam Rasco, both of Groes beck; 18 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren PORT ARTHUR SPORTS CAR WRECK IS FATAL KIT CARSON. Colo. Carl F. Logenberger, 23, of Port Arthur, was killed lute Saturday when his sports car missed a curve on U.

S. Highway 287 near here. He was thrown out and was crushed by the overturning cur. COOLER U. S.

Weather Bureau fort- east for and Bi-Stont area: Occational rain, partly cloudy to cloar thU afternoon and tonifht. A little cooler, Low lear men's choir tlurinj. services. the morning The Rev. Morgan will deliver the Sunday Mexia Area Gets Good Rain Over Two-Day Period ll hail rained almost two inches in Mexia by this morning at 10:30, on rain gauges weft- checked.

John Bennett nf 209 South Canton said his rain yauge showed two inches, including Sunday morning's precipitation. while Arthur Clifton of -115. East Grayson measured 1.7 inches. It was still rainiiiL; "off anil on" when the rainfall totals were checked Ihis morning. HusseM Richardson said 1.4 inches had fallen at Shiloh while W.

Kay McGee's gauge at Point Enterprise revealed 2.4 inches since to GROESBECK Limestone County commissioners have set the date for an election in which the citizens will decide whether to authorize the county commissioners to enter into contract with the Soil Conservation Service for the maintenance of soil conservation dams in the county. Judge Norton Fox said the commissioners, meeting in regular weekly session at Groesbeck this morning, set Nov. 25 as the date for the county-wide election. Judge Fox said that if the proposal is approved at the polls, the maintenance of the dams will be financed by a levy of a five-cent tax out of the county's farm-market lateral ruad fund. He said this will not be an additional ta-x on the people but will instead be the taking of five cents on the dollar from the farm-market road fimd.

"5d This lateral road fund tax voted some years back for road maintenance. All of the commissioners voted for the election They are J. Bower of Prairie Hill, Bob Fortson of Shiloh. Boyd Tilmon of se and D. L.

Long of Ciroesbeck. Sunday. Both men reported it be rainmjj Mr. Mel Jet- said 1.2 fell Sunday! IIIDI niiij; and 1.2 inches today byi DENVER CITY MAN 10 SENATOR LONG WILL SPEAK AT CONVENTION 'AP DIES IN ACCIDENT HOBBS, John Ar ilhur French, 21. of Denver CUy, dieii Sunday in a car-truck accident on State 132 just north of BATON ROUGE.

La. Sen Russell is sched- Ho.bb,v Police said the car French uled as the main speaker today was driving collided with a truck at the 3(ith annual Intercoastallthat was apparently on the wrung Canal Association ot Louisiana (side of highway. Four persons and Texas convention. were injured. Approximately 100 of the 250, HANDS FULL-Mrs.

Raymond J. Foyro of Holyoko, has her hands full as she htr slx-month-old ftr (NBA Telapheto.) 11 months of the toured the Purt Allen the Confederate steamship, on the ferryboat of Baton Alabama, captured Northern Rouge" 'pruee valued at.