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In Megro (Sec Story, Colnma Eight) Jim Wsiailwi EASTSJEXAS Considerable cloudiness through Friday. Scat-tered showeif and thundershow ere tonight and Friday. A little warmer tonight Moderate to locally fresh southeasterly winds on the coast. (batty. Jofuc mm Everything comet to him who hustles while he waits Thomas Alva Edison.

AN INDEPENDENT DEMCTRATIC 'NEWSPAPER OF THE FIRST CLASS, UNCHALLENGED IN ITS FIEfcQj 85TK YEAR NO. 108 NKA nrlM CT AlrktM WMtl-WM Sn-TtM tuu Wll PrM LONGVIEW, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 26, 1956 AmeltUS Tmm Wtrcy bat VmUmt tnm, littruUtHl Hmw SarrlM 24 PAGES Two Tatum Youths Arrested Slayisag a0" 1 aTl riCrn. 1 MfiPI IBB MM Ike Asks $126 Millions To Combat 'Killer9 Diseases Production Dae Around April 1st Trailmobiles will soon be "Made In Texas" at the new Longview plant of Trailmobile, it waa announced here Thursday by William A. Burns, president of.the-firm with national headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. i Production of truck-trailers of a new design especially- suited to the needs of Texas and the Southwest will start in the Longview plant about April 1 1 1 1 1 1 The request was made In a five-point program In a special mes sage calling for "a renewed and relnvigorated attackf on our health By MARVIN L.

AREOWSMITH WASHINGTON ur President Elsenhower asked Congress today to vote 126.52S.000 for basic research to penetrate the "dark mystery" of cancer and to combat other leading killers. problem s. Eisenhower told the lawmakers "The nation in recent years has iii following several months of prep TRAILMOBILE OFFICIALS. Seven officials of TraHmobile, Inc, who are pushing plans to get the new Longview plant In operation soon are pictured above, left to right: E. W.

McAllister, personnel director; Mack Swlgert, attorney; Karl Mueller, vice president and general manager; William A. Burns, president; Walter W. Hasenzhal, general manager; Lloyd Senglaub, director of industrial relations; and F. V. Hoy, plant manager here.

made notable advances in the unending struggle against disease and disability. Human suffering has been relieved, the span of man's years has been extended. But in the light of the human and economic toll still taken by disease In the light of the great opportunities open before us, the nation still has not summoned the resources It properly and usefully could summon to the cause of better health." Eisenhower did not renew his request of last year for federal reinsurance of health insurance a proposal which ran into opposition from the American Medical Assn. on grounds it might be an opening wedge to socialized medicine, and got nowhere In Congress. Instead, Eisenhower said the administration is considering legislation to permit pooling of risks by private companies.

He said this might offer "broader benefits and expanded coverage on Four-Monlhs-Old Killing Is Solved; Deny Race Issue ii i i i i i i i I)-' aration for production. Announcement that production operations in the Longview plant will begin in early April was made by Mr. Burns at a luncheon given by Trailmobile at the Pine-crest Country club for a group of Longview industrialists, public officials and civic leaders. Trailmobile purchased the Long-view plant property last May. It consists of buildings with 55,000 square feet of manufacturing space and 70 acres of land and is situated on the north side of Kodak boulevard in the Estes industrial district on Highway 149 south of Longview.

The 70 acres of flat land adjacent to the Trailmobile plant will be used for future expansion. It was announced. Trailmobile is the nation's sec 4 i Months of question-asklnff by Texas Rangers, Gregg county deputies and district attorneys finally cracked, the case Thursday of the 24 rifle shots fired from a speeding black car in the Highway 149 area south of Longview last Oct 22, officers said reasonable terms in fields of special needs." "But," he added, "If practical and useful methods cannot be developed along these lines, then I will again urge the enactment of ond largest manufacturer of com' the proposal made last year. merciai truck-trailers. The com' pany, a division of Pullman, Elsenhower called for action in "JK 1 11 Li-.

Ave general areas, providing for: also, has plants in Cincinnati, Ohio; Sprlnitfleld, Berkeley, 1. A 28 per cent increase in fed and Toronto, Canada. eral funds for basic medical research to a total of 1126,525,000. Mr. Burns also announced Thursday the appointment 2.

A new program of grants 250 Francis v. Roy, former chief in LUNCHEON GROUP Pictured at the head table as Trailmobile was host at luncheon st Pinecrest Country club Thursday ere (clockwise, starting at left): J. E. Tyson, district manager of the Texas Employment Commission; J. O.

Lyle, president of Standard Tool and Machine Carl Estes, Longview publisher; William A. Burns, president of Trailmobile; Rex Jennings, manager of the Longview Chamber of Commerce; and Loftis, president of the First National million dollars over the next five dustrial engineer for Trailmo (See IKE, Page 6-A) biles Cincinnati plant, as man One Tatum white youth was already In Gregg county Jail charged with, murder in with the shootings snd another was being brought back from the Houston area where he was arrested Wednesday night i Charged with murder In eon. nectlon with the shootings were Perry Dean Ross, 21. who was arrested by Capt. R.

A. "Bob" Crowder of the Texas Rangers on the way to the Lon shorn Ordnance Works at Karnack where Ross Is employed. Being brought -back from Houston waa Joe Simpson, also 21. who officers said will also be charged with murder. Denying any overtones of racial unrest in the shootings in which ger of the Longview plant Mr.

Roy will be in charge of all engineering, production, purchas Ed DusekTo Coach At Corsicana High ing, personnel snd manufacturing, Mr. Burns said. Flooded Tube Is Being Pumped Production of a special type of CORSICANA (-Ed Dusek, head platform trailer designed espe cially for truck operators In the football coach for three seasons at Gainesville High School, was named today head coach at Corsi Southwest will begin In the Long view plant about April 1, Mr. Roy cana High School. 'Dusek.

32. will report March said. NEW YORK UP Workmen today John Earl Reese. 16-year-old Ne began a three-day lob of pumping gro, was fatally wounded while Mr. Roy said the Longview plant will soon be In full produc at $7,000 a year.

He replaces Otis Pederson. resigned. 1 out the flooded Manhattan section of a new 100-mllllon-doUar Lincoln tion of Trallmobile's new "Custo mer Individualized Design" trail' tunnel. Dusek, a former Texas lineman, coached at Robstown and Longview before coming to Gaines dancing at a cafe, Captain Crowder said, "In our investigation! we failed to find anyone Including Perry Dean Ross who will say that there is a racial disturbance issue at all. at any time In these shoot A break yesterday caused water to cascade into the tube.

Nobody ers a new, manufacturing concept that gives Trailmobile customers a choice of 192,000 possible combinations of standardized trailer ville. He said he wiu nring one assistant coach to Corsicana with was inlured DOCTOR VISITS SANTA FE ENGINEER. Dr. Marcus Crahan, Los Angeles county Jail physician, visits Frank B. Parrish, Si, engineer of the SanU Fe train which derailed in Los Angeles Sunday night with a loss of 29 Uvea.

Parrish, who Is sUll confined to the hospital, will be given a psychiatric examination by Dr. Crahan. At Wlrephoto). i ings." The Manhattan section waa betas components. Reese was st the Hughes cafe bored wesr to Join another section on Highway 149 in Gregg county being driven east under the Hud Mr.

Burns said the luncheon was given by Trailmobile in apprecia when shortly after 11 p.m. On the son River from the New Jersey tion of the welcome offended to night of Oct 22 nine shots were shore. They had not been linked OFFICERS KNOW OF NONE him and his company at a lunch With two pumps already in oper eon at the home of Publisher Carl fired from a speeding black car -Into the cafe. Two Negro girls, Johnnie Nelson, 15, and Josle Ncl- him. Pipeline To Nylon Plant Dynamited PENSACOLA, Fla.

0rV-A natural gas pipeline supplying the Chem-strand big nylon plant was Estes here last May. and at the ation, the water depth was decreasing at a rate of Vi Inches an hour. More pumps are to be In same time "to give you an oppor son, 13. received minor wounds In Fees U. S.

Trust tunity to meet our people. The stalled. the shootings into the cafe. Shortly afterwards, shots were also fired WILLIAM A. BURNS.

JR. Trailmobile President The pumping was expected to FBAnfCIS'V. ROT Longview Plant Manager Trailmobile president said his firm would at all times endeavor to be take three days, and the construc from a speeding ear In the nearby good neighbors. tion delay will be longer. Some engineers said shortly after the He Introduced T.

V. (Dude) Roy Mayflower community of Rusk county. Some of these were fired at a Negro school bus which was To Solons Denied Jeb Stuart's Kin Asserts Jr. who will serve as plant mana break the work would be set back ger here; E. W.

McAllister, per two or three weeks. dynamited today. The plant was the scene of picket line disorders two weeks ago. The two older tubes of the Lin parked at the time. Other shots were fired st the house of John Beckwortlu brother of the school sonnel director of the local plant; Karl Mueller, vice-president and to bim eash items In the "mystery By DAVE CHEAVENS coln tunnel system were not af Outerbridge Is Impostor The sheriffs office said the Uni funds" that House and Senate In AUSTIN laV-A number of of fl general manager of Trailmobile; fected by the break and traffic ted Gas Pipeline branch line principal in that community.

Mrs. Beckworth told officers she was eers and employes of U.J. Trust continued In them as usual. vestigators are seeking to track down. Walter W.

HasenzahL general manager; Lloyd Senglaub, director of Industrial relations, and Mack Va. JV-Thre of the supplying Chemstrand and the Escambia Bay Chemical plant near Milton "apparently was It would be impossible for. Alexander Stuart Outerbridge, 34, to be Dttiey denied Shoemake re kneeling at her bedside in prayer when the bullets were fired. She said some of them grazed her head.v Cloudiness And Rain Swigert, attorney. eight grandchildren of Confederate Gen.

J. E. B. Stuart contend a Bermuda resident who married a a great-great-grandson of Stuart, said one of the Kranddaushters. Mr.

Burns said his company does an amazing job for the truck Production was halted at the Es Negro singer is not a direct de Three Texas Ransers. District Mrs. Marrow Stuart Smith of Virginia Beach. "Even the oldest of cambia Bay plant The plant era- Likely In East Texas industry, and that the building scendant of the famed cavalry Attorney Ralph Prince and Gregg of Industrial trailers is a growing commander. (See KILLING, Page s-A the great-great-grandchildren are ploys about 250 workers.

A Chemstrand official said production was sharply curtailed there. sun wee tots. Considerable cloudiness, little industry, in 1940, he stated, there were 169.000 units, and by 1950 the number had increased to change in temperature and scat Outerbridge, scion of a promi The branch pipeline was dyna Salk Gets Medal For tered showers are forecast for the Chamber Meet mited four miles west of the plant. 000. and the total by 1970 is esti nent Bermuda family, rocked the British colony Tuesday with the disclosure he was married to Officers said a four-foot section Longview area through Friday, according to the United States wea mated, at 1,400,000.

and Guaranty told Texas Senate Investigators today they knew of no payments of legislators or other state officials to help keep the defunct firm alive. They aU said in effect that the large cash sums withdrawn and handed over to A. B. Shoemake, resident, were "his business" and tey didn't question him. He was boss, they said.

Shoemake Is critically 111 In Waco after firing a bullet through his head early this month. The witnesses Included Sam Dee-ley of Waco, vice president of U.S. Trust, who Is to appear also before a 2 p.m. session of the House Investigating Committee. The Senate session recessed until 2 p.m.

Employes testified they followed Shoemake's orders In handing over was blown out and a crater was He explained that his company ceived $9,000 In cash from U.S. Trust's account in a Waco bank minutes before word of the U.S. Trust receivership was received there. He said it was Southern Medical and Hospital Service money and In no way reduced the assets of U.S. Trust.

Committee members questioned Deeley and James Hay, superintendent of Shoemake's accounting department, about Felix Elnsohn, who has been named as a Dallas CPA who made one of the examinations of U.S. Trust last summer. Senate Investigators earlier had raised the question as to whether Elnsohn who had told the insurance commission in 1955 he con-! sidered U.S. Trust solvent partic-(See U. S.

TRUST, Page 8-A) Part In Polio Fight ther bureau. Royce Wallace, former Harlem blown in the ground about 10 feet Is a part of an organization that The hlRh temperature Wednesday night club singer. The story of has three corporate subsidiaries: by 12 feet. Set In Greggfon the Christmas Eve marriaee listed in Longview was 53 degrees at Trailmobile, Inc. Pullman, National Guard units were called Outerbridge as a great-great-grand 30 p.m.

Early morning low Fri and W. M. Kellogg. son or uen. stuart.

The Longview plant, he ex WASHINGTON (At Dr. Jonas E. Salk today received a congressional gold medal for "his great achievement in the field of Medicine" in developing the polio vac day was 38 degrees at 1:30 a. m. and the high to noon Thursday was A full house Is assured for the Speaking for herself and two plained, will build trailers for the out by Gov.

Leroy Collins Jan. 11 after massed pickets blocked construction workers from entering the Chemstrand plant area. Several workers were beaten, cars 48 degrees. other Stuart granddaughters. Mrs.

annual banquet of the Greggton Southwest The wind has been out of the Jonathan W. Old Jr. of Norfolk Chamber of Commerce to be held Mr. Burns and his officials were welcomed by Carl Estes, southeast at 18 miles an hour. tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Pine and Mrs.

Stuart James of Norfolk and Virginia. Beach, Mrs. Smith said yesterday Outerbridge was an Tree school cafeteria. Barometric pressure was holding steady at 30.22. were overturned and car windows smashed near the plant Jan.

The pickets said they were not publisher of The News and The Journal; Mayor Clyde Tomllnson, C. George Goetx. widely known representing any union but were "impostor" if he claimed to be a descendant of the Civil War hero. behalf of the city; Judge Earl Sharp, in behalf of the county: Bob public speaker and civic leader of San Augustine, will be the principal speaker for the occasion. WILL COST CITY $212,000 protesting the hiring of out-of-state workers by Daniel Construction Carglll.

In behalf of E. K. Ben cine wmco. pears his name. Secretary of Welfare Folsom presented the medal to the University of Pittsburgh scientist at the request of President Elsenhower.

Government officials, members of Congress and officials of organizations interested in the Salk vaccine program were invited to the ceremony at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Folsom told Salk his "successful research is a great landmark in the war against polio." E. L. Brinkley, recently reelect Smith said she knows all the children of the eight grandchildren and also all the great- nett, president of the chamber of Greenville, S. Daniel is constractor for an expansion proj commerce, who is 111: R.

O. Ken- ed to the presidency of the Gregg-ton chamber, will present the an ley, and others. f-yr ect at tne pisnu nual report and introduce other Employes of the comoanv wfil new officers. be drawn from the community and area, Mr. Burns said In re J.

D. Saxon, Gregg county audi John Petty Awarded Contract For Filtration Plant Addition $AQQtinqA. Jo: ply to a question. The Invocation was nronounced tor, will be toastmaster the evening. music will be furnished by the music department of the Pine Tree school.

greai-granacniiciren. There was no Immediate eonv ment from Humble To Move Info New Quarters The dispatcher'! office of the by Rex Jennings, chamber of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur N. Mit chell, formerly of Fort Worth, commerce The Ruest list of Lonovli.ui In.

A few tickets are still available Mtporlfrmm now residing at 1702 Flanagan dustrialists included: R. G. Le- and may be secured at the door, officials said. Drive. Tourneau, president, and Richard Mr.

and Mrs. V. A. McCssland, I fc'W H. LeTourneau, general manager, R.

G. LeTourneau. D. C. Hull formerly of Henderson, now re k-lVNsii, Humble Pipeline company's dlvis- over the enormous concrete underground clear well now covered with earth and sod, A representative of the successful low bidder predicted the construction could be completed, In shout six months.

siding at 1712 Flanagan Drive. Fighter Overlooks One Small Detail We are happy today to welcome Clrcleville Jan. 25, 1958 Dear Editor: If It weren't for expert Wash Some of the bids were for sums. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (JrWThe to Longview the new citizens listed above, whose names are fur nlihed through courtesy of Long-view Greeting Service.

We extend cordial greetings. As a special courtesy and by ington columnists, we folks at Clrcleville wouldn't know what and H. H. Imray, vice-presidents, Texas Eantman company: H. U.

Garrett, president. Garrett Oil Tools, a division of U.S. Industries, J. O. Lyle, president, and Casey P'Pool, secretary-treasurer.

Standard Tool Machine company; Harry E. Smith, general Manager, Pittsburgh Screw and Bolt company; Ales Asar, general manager, Reslstol Hats, A. bouse shook with laughter when mated the additions would eost $200,000 or 10 per cent more or less. The additions sre expected to increase the rated capacity of the filtration plant to 10 million gallons daily which could in an emergency be pushed up to 20 million gallons dally, Montgomery said. The new construction Involves the building of a 20-foot wide extension on the existing two-story structure on South 16th street Mechanical sludge removing devices are to be.

Installed in ths second of two sedimentation basins. Another coagulating basin will be built alongside the existing coagulating basin and two more filtering basins will be built On a low bid of $212,800, John A. Petty of Longview was awarded a contract hers Thursday to construct additions to the Longview city water filtration plant 7 on South 10th street which will more than double ths plant's capacity. Meeting in special session to receive and open bids, members of ths city commission voted unanimously to award Petty ths contract. Nine other bids were received.

City Manager Harry Mos-ley opened and read the bids before some 33 spectators, representatives of Interested bidders and their subcontractors, i i Julian Montgomery of Austin, consulting engineer who drew the plans for the addition; had esU-i Curtis Schoon, Sioux Fails feather ion ornce will be moved into its new quarters on the sixth floor of the new 10-story First National bank building Friday afternoon, Cecil Burdick. division chief clerk, said here Thursday. This firm will be the first tenant into the take up office space in the city's tallest which has been under construction more than a year. Burdick said that other division officers would move Into the new quarters during the week end and will be ready to transact business from there by Monday. -1 weight, took off his robe for his Golden Gloves boxing match last night.

as high as 1268,000. But six of them were for sums of less than $229,000. Bidders were E. E. Farrow Co.

of Dallas, Austin Bridge Co. of i Dallas, Clyde Smith of Austin, H. R. Bergstrom of Wilmoth Construction Co. of Longview; Wyche Construction Co.

of Dallas, Clint Brown of Longview, W. J. Hardy of Marshall and McClendon Construction Co. of Longview. 1 Schoon had forgotten to wear ii to think on matters of grave Importance to the nation.

According to a digest of 38 newspaper columns by the experts In the past two weeks, the following is truer-' id) Ike will run. (2) Iks won't run. Yours faithfully, i-iJ, FOX. -r way of aelplng to introduce them to Longview, they are receiving complimentary copies of the news-piper for two weeks, and we know they will avail themselves of the opportunity to examine our WhoT What? Where? service feature. boxing trunks.

The match wss he'd up wlille Schoon retvmed to ti Van Blarcom, general manager, Texas division Bell St Gossett company; John Fleeger, president, and H. Nance, executive vlce-presi- dressing room. He lost the bout but- wci which appears today on page (See TRAILMOBILE, Fags 6-A) sportsmanship trophy. -T.

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