Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 1

DEAD, 59 HURT AS TO TORNADOES RIP TEXAS Villages Of Vaughan And Bynum Worst Hit By WILLIAM JOLESCH I Associated Press Staff Writer Tornadoes slashed through vast areas of Texas and Oklahoma Tuesday night and Wednesday and killed persons and injured at least 59. The twisters struck at Vaughan and Benen, in Central Texas; Gainesville in North Texas; near Kingston, near the Texas border: and at Silver City, miles west of Tulsa, Okla. A freak, tornado dipped Into Marshall, far east of the main turbulence area' unrooted one home and then lifted. It struck hours after the main twister line left Texas. Another tornado cut a path 500 feet wide in Henderson, in far East Texas southwest of Marshall, while hurricane strength winds damaged homes and businesses in Gladewater, and near Longview, I all in the Marshall Henderson area.

The line of tornado weather rolled hundreds of miles into Kansas and Missouri. Kansas City underwent tornado alert for 15 minutes but no twister struck there. A tanker plane from Bergstrom Air Base near Austin crashed during the turbulence and all aboard died. The tanker normally carries a crew of four. Three perished at Vaughan, 50 persons persons.

about 70 miles south of Dallas. Two died at Bynum, east of Vaughan. An automobile was tossed off the bighway north of Bynum, killing Mrs. C. B.

Bruner of Waco, wife of a doctor. Smashed automobiles, tractors and wagons, tossed into fields and ditches, were in evidence almost everywhere. Tattered clothing, and bedclothing fluttered trees and fencMailboxes hung at crazy angles. Snapped utility lines strewed the roads and fields, and many utility poles had snapped. Jack Tripplett said the tornado just like lightning." It sheared half of his 6-room stone house away and demolished the barn.

None of the family suffered injuries. BIll Orr, his wife and four children searched through the ruins of their home at Bynum Wednesday morning, picking up remaining valuables and the children's toys. Said Orr, "I heard this terrible roar at about 9:15 p.m. and my wife and I jumped up and grabbed the kids and ran into a southeast bedroom and jumped under the bed. We just got under the bed when the tornado hit.

It actually hit twice. The first time it shook the house. The second it pitched about 100 feet and turned it around. Residents of Bynum had the appearance typical of tornado victims. They appeared stunned and bewildered by the tragedy, moved about slowly and talked in hushed tones.

The freak Marshall tornado badly damaged the brick home of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Spencer in a thickly populated area of new -housing addition.

It took off the roof and heavily damaged the interior. The tornado lifted back up and touched nothing more. Debris from the Spencer home struck a house across the street. No one actually saw the twister, but many persons reported the Longvieto Daily Netos AN INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER OF THE FIRST CLASS, UNCHALLENGED IN ITS FIELD tornado roar at 3:30 a.m. At Vaughan, the twister flattened all the half dozen houses, the gas station and two churches.

A cotton gin was ripped in halt. THE DEAD HILLSBORO, Tex. (AP) -Killed in the tornado which struck Vaughan and Bynum, small Central Texas towns south of here last night, were: Hariston Stanford, about 40, Vaughan. His sister, Mildred Stanford, about 50, Vaughan; Mrs. Minnie E.

Lee, 74, Vaughan; Mrs. C. B. Bruner, Waco, Garnett Cain, Bynum, about 50; and Ben Harris, Bynum. Hog Roots Through Home Wreckage A stray hog roots through what's left of juries.

A son, Ralph 18, was treated and the Ralph Grounds home near Vaughan released. Here a friend, J. V. Kennedy, after Tuesday night's tornado. Grounds tries to salvage what he can for the famiand his wife are hospitalized with in- ly.

(AP WIREPHOTO). Winds Of 69 MPH Jet Tanker Lash This Area; Crashes During Storm; 4 Dead Damage By FOSTER FORT News-Journal Staff Writer Winds clocked at 69 miles an at the Gregg County Airport brushed through Longview area early Wednesday but no serious damage was reported. Thunderstorms began at 12:55 a.m. Wednesday and continued until 3:50 a.m., releasing .38 of an inch of rain on the city. Most serious damage reported lapse of 50-foot antenna at locally from the wind, was the colColonial Motel on West Marshall Avenue.

The tower fell into a high voltage electric wire and the leads and amplifier of the TV system were burned out by the high voltage. A tree was set afire. on South Sixteenth Street when it was hit by lightning. Arlie Bearden, radio and TV repair man, estimated approximately 50 TV antennas were damaged in the city by the storm. The south section of Longview experienced a brief power failure about 1:30 a.m.

Engineers for the power company said it was caused by a tree brushing into high voltage lines and opening circuit breaker. Power came back on LONGVIEW By Julia Acker BEWARE TODAY of accepting any special courtesies, gifts of chocolate candy. It will probably turn out to be sweet-smelling soap dipped in chocolate beware of phone calls as the one at the other end of the line may be "giving you a line' be sure to pass up all beautifully-wrapped packages lying in your path as they probably contain brick bats or saw dust turn down all doughnuts as they do doubt will be filled with fluffy cotton and disregard it when a friend stops to Inform you that your petticoat Ic showing It's April Fool's Day, so keep on your "P's and Q's." NO FOOLING It's true that a prominent local couple Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Riggs are observing their 25th (Silver) wedding anniversary April 1 at their home, South Green Street couple married on Easter Sunday, 1934, At the First Methodist Church in Shreveport with the Rev.

S. L. Rices, father of Leonard officiating. Although the Riggs spent the greater part of their lives in Shreveport they call Longview "home' having lived here for the past. 23 years where Mr.

Riggs is owner of Riggs Nursery and Landscape Co. Mrs. Riggs is the former Fleeta Walker of Shreveport. The Riggs are parents of a fine son, 16- year old Leonard YOURS, REUNION The current holtdays meant "reunion time" at the home of Pauline and Bob Cargill who greeted their son, Bobby, and daughter, home from their respective colleges. Bobby is doing graduate work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Paula is a student at the University of Texas other guests entertained by the Cargill's were Charles Kaplan of Minnesota, who is completing graduate work at University of Texas.

and Miss Heidi Fairfield of Boston. ROUND AND ABOUT THE TOWN Mrs. Ralph Phillips is skimming along steel railway tracks aboard a fast "flyer" taking her to Washington, D.C. where she will visit her daughter, Mrs. (See TODAY, Pag 10) 90TH YEAR--NO.

280 LONGVIEW, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 1, 1959 16 PAGES SALUTE TO INDUSTRY (An Editorial) The economic base on which a city lives determines whether it will merely exist or whether it will grow and prosper. Longview's prosperity and growth since World War Il has been in proportion to the strength and vigor of the economic base that has been built here. We are happy to note Gov. Price Daniel's action in proclaiming April 1-7 as Texas Industrial Week. This should be a most significant week for us here in the Longview area, for new and expanding, industry has given this area the economic base from which stems our development and our prosperity.

It was 14 years ago that The Longview Daily News and Longview Morning Journal began to center their effort on securing new industry for this East Texas area, and to support and encourage the small industry already here in its plans for growth ard expansion. We did this because we realized agriculture, timber, and oil were likely to go into a long, slow decline. with employment and business prospects in close pursuit. In these post-war years, a large number of industrial enterprises have been invited and encouraged to locate manufacturing, assembly, and supply and service plants in Longview, Gregg county and neighboring counties of East Texas. We have made no distinction in city or county lines in this work, realizing that Longview will grow and prosper only as the East Texas 1 regional area it serves is enabled to grow and prosper.

It is with personal restraint that we do not here call the roll of honor of those industries that have come to the Longview area and set up operations in these years. They have plants in and out of Longview, in and out of Gregg county. But wherever they are situated, they are a part of us and a contributing factor to progress in this area. It is good to recall that, during the past several years, our industries and the people who manage and work in the plants are always to be found in the forefront of leadership and support in every kind of worthwhile community project, in our churches and schools and civic and cultural programs. For instance, it was the industrial plants in the Longview.

area and the people who work in them who put the Greater Longview United Fund campaign over the top last autumn after a number of, other groups and divisions fell far short of their goals. Whether it is in general community effort, or specific projects, or whatever phase of life and work one may observe, he will find in places of leadership or active support our new neighbors from the industrial plants of the Longview area. It is a thrilling and inspiring thing to realize how thoroughly they have revitalized and strengthened our way of life and our prospects and hopes for the future. To our industries- one and all, large and small, new and old, now expanding and hoping to expand in the future -we salute you on this special occasion. We pledge continued understanding and active support in helping maintain an industrial climate in this area that is favorable to your continued growth and expansion.

Working together in a common faith in the future, we can say without fear or doubt: The best is yet to be. Mrs. Broyles Rites Thursday Funeral services for Mrs. C. W.

(Dutch) Broyles, prominent Longview resident, widely known in social, church and civic circles, will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church with Dr. Thomas Talbot officiating. Interment will be in the family plot in Memory Park under the direction of Rader Funeral Home. Mrs.

Broyles died Tuesday afternoon at her home, 519 Young Street, following an illness of many months. A resident of Longview for the past 25 years, Mrs. Broyles moved to Longview from Cushing, Okla. Mr. and Mrs.

Broyles would have observed their 25th wedding anniversary in May. She was the former Evelyn Long daughter of Mrs. Joe Long, Longview, and the late Mr. Long. Mrs.

Broyles was graduated from Oklahoma State University where she was a member of, Pi Beta Phi sorority; she was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Longview, was a member of Women of the Church and a charter member of the Lions Auxiliary, Before, stricken ill she was active in many phases of church and Sunday School work in the Presbyterian Church. Survivors include, her husband, C. W. Broyles, Longview; two daughters, Mrs. Charles Richard (See BROYLES, Page 10) Mexico To Toss Out Two Soviet Attaches Is Light when the circuit breaker was closed.

Southwestern Electrie Power Company said that some of the power lines in the oil field sections of Rusk County were damaged or knocked down but repairs had been made and service restored before dawn Wednesday. owned by LeTourneau and tied The canopy. a on a B-26 aircraft, down at the airport, was sucked open by the winds and the interior of the aircraft was soaked by the rain. This aircraft is used for parts only and is not one of the regular flying fleet of LeTourneau Aviation. Gladewater reported plate glass window blown out of one store.

South of Longview, glass was blown from two roadside taverns. Kilgore reported winds of 72 m.p.h. Forecast Calls For Fair Skies Generally fair skies and not much change in temperatures is the forecast for the Longview area of East Texas through Thursday according to the U.S. Weather Bureau. Temperatures for Thursday are expected to range from a low of 50 to a high of 70 degrees.

Tuesday's high temperature was 80 degrees at 1 p.m. The early morning low Wednesday was 58 degrees at 2.a.m. and the noonday high 61 degrees. The wind was from the westnorthwest at 20 miles per hour and barometric pressure was rising slowly from a 29.82 reading. LeTourneau Board Re-elected Here All of the directors of R.

G. LeTourneau, were re-elected at the annual stockholders' meeting held in the company offices here Wednesday morning. Re-elected were R. G. LeTourneau, Mrs.

Evelyn LeTourneau, R. L. LeTourneau and Richard H. LeTourneau, all of Longview: Judge Elkins Houston and Herbert Buschman of New York. Company President R.

G. LeTourneau told the stockholders that he was optimistic about the future of his company. By EDDIE KOLENOVSKY KILLEEN, Tex. -An Air Force tanker plane crashed on a small mountain near here during a thunderstorm last night, killing the crew of four. The 4-engine jet KC135 was on routine training flight from Bergstrom Air Force Base at Austin.

The base listed the crewmen as: Lt. Rodney Anderlitch, 25, San Antonio. Maj. Jesse Le Myrick, 41, Wichita Falls. Lt.

Philip Camillo de Bonis, 25, Newark, Sgt. Herman Allison Clark, 45, Tampa, Fla. An Air Force officer said indications were the plane "came apart before it hit impact area. He pointed out that two of the Jet engines were only damaged when they hit the ground. The officer said the pilot radioed only three minutes before the crash that' everything was all right.

The craft crashed and exploded in a cedar-covered area. Wreckage was scattered over a half mile area. The largest piece of the plane intact was only four by five feet. The site of the crash is the Pink Stone Ranch, 10 miles southwest of the Central Texas town of Belton. Construction Near Million For March Longview building permits nudged the million dollar mark during March.

Residential and commercial permits totalled 010, City Manager Harry Mosley said Wednesday, Residential permits totalled 66 during the month for a value of $725,510. Four commercial permits totalled $105,500 and a multi-family or apartment units amounted to $65,000. Permits for the first three months. of this year total 560. March permits exceeded February by $187,010 and led the same During March 59 building inlast, year by $220,500.

spections were made, 41 electrical, 65 plumbing and one school inspection. Total inspection fees collected by the city for the mounth amounted to $1,389.30. Soviets Warn U.S. On Berlin Flights BERLIN (UPD. A Soviet spokesman warned the United States today against flying planes to West Berlin at heights not accepted, by the Soviet Union.

He said if the United States defies a Soviet ban on flights in the corridors above 10,000 feet it will lead to "complications." The spokesman did not spell out what he meant by but the implication was that the Soviets might take action against the aircraft. Three Soviet jet fighters buzzed an unarmed American Air Force transport plane Friday on flights both into and out of West Berlin while it was crossing the Soviet zone. The Soviets, rejected an American protest against the buzzing and countered with a. protest of their own. They said Western airI craft may not fly above 10,000 MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexico the Easter weekend rail strike.

ohd secretary of the Soviet Emhas ordered two Soviet Embassy Two other Red attaches were re- bassy, Nicolai M. Remisov, and a try, 1 charging they had a hand in An official source said the attaches expelled from the coun- ported marked go. Luther G. Kent Dies After Illness Luther Gordon Kent III, 15, wellknown Longview youth, died Tuesday at 8 p.m. in a local hospital following a lengthy illness.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at Welch's Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Thomas Talbot officiating. Interment will be in Memory Park. Gordon was born June 29, 1943.

in Longview. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Searcy Birdsong 407 East College Street, he was a popular member of the sophomore class of Longview High School, and although ill at the opening of the 1959 school term he enrolled in classes and attended school on days when his health permitted. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church; was honorary treasurer of Senior High Fellowship, First Presbyterian Church; was a former member of Scout Troop No.

221, and was a charter member of Christian Rhinehardt Senior Society of Children of American Revolution. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Birdsong, a sister, Nancy Rea Kent, a brother, James Searcy Birdsong, Longview; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

L. G. Kent of Shreveport, and one uncle, Neal Kent of Baton Rouge, La. Gordon was the maternal grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs.

James S. Rea of Longview. Pallbearers will be Emory Boring III, Joseph Lee Boring, Mike DeLatin, David Hornbeck, Jack Covin, Sammy Whitson, Bill McWhorter and Mike Ward. The Weather EAST TEXAS Clear to partly cloudy through Thursday. Cooler Wednesday night.

Lowest generally in the 40s north portion tonight. Luther Gordon Kent III military-naval attache, Nicolai V. sec- Asenov, were given until Friday to get out of the country. They reportedly plan to take a Canadian airliner Friday morning to Toronto. Two members of a diplomatic mission from an unidentified Soviet satellite also were reported to have been declared no longer welcome in Mexico.

There was speculation they were Czechoslovak or Polish. The strike fizzled Monday after the government had rounded up an estimated 3,000 leftist union leaders and followers. The government said it had evidence the strike was a Communist plot. Workers flocked to their jobs Tuesday and officials said 140 trains were back on the run. Many of the workers said they had been coerced into striking by threats of torture or reprisals against their families.

The two Soviets were said to have had regular contact with Demetrio Vallejo, leftist rail union leader who organized the last three national rail strikes. He was arrested Sunday and reportedly talked to authorities about the Soviets' role in the walkout. Official Of UMW Sought In Killing BARBOURVILLE, Ky. (AP) State searched the striketorn eastern Kentucky coalfields today for a United Mine Workers official wanted for questioning in the killing of a non-union operator. The official was not identified but Public Safety Commissioner Don Sturgill said "We feel he is the key to the solution of Woodrow Smith's The 42-year-old operator was shot six times Tuesday, while he and a companion headed for a minister's home after pickets showed up at the small mine on Stinking Creek near here.

000 Girls' Answer To Phone Booth Fad Twenty-one girl students at Long Beach, ing themselves into telephone booths. Calif. State College are jammed in or on Men of the campus fraternity, Tau Kapa small foreign-made auto on the cam- pa' Epsilon, promptly vowed to put 50 of pus. The girls said they wanted to "ex- their members in a small car. (AP pose the foolish antics" of college boys WIREPHOTO).

around the country who have been pack- Smith's companion was harmed but was taken into protective custody. He was not identified. "Smith was trying to void Sturgill said. had been harassing him for two days The to UMW sign a has been contract." on strike in seven counties since March 9t to back up demands for a $24.25 a day contract, a $2 increase over the old agreement. State police arrested four pickets, two of them women, when rocks were thrown at trucks, hauling coal to mines running without contract in the nearby Hazard area.

Miners' wives were among 2 200 pickets who tried to halt activity at the Ashlo Coal Co, and at Jakes Fork Coal Co. State police broke up both demonstrations. Lone Star Steel Sets Meet feet when crossing East Germany to and from West Berlin. A spokesman at the Soviet embassy in East Berlin backed this stand. "The U.S.

cannot unilaterally change flight rules procedures," he said. Asked what would happen if the above 10,000 "You United States continued, to fly are asking what will happen if established rules are broken. The answer is obvious. -It will lead to complications." The United States contends there is no ceiling on flights across the Soviet and was expected to reject formally the Soviet claim. The plane buzzed Friday by the Soviet MIGS was a C130 turboprop used in supplying the American Army garrison in West Berlin.

Its most efficient operating altitude is above 25,000 DALLAS Formal notice of Lone Star Steel Company's annual stockholders' meeting was in the mail Wednesday to more than 000 shareholders residing in all of the United States and several foreign countries, according to E. B. Germany, president. The meeting, usually attended by sever: hundred stockholders, will be held in the auditorium of the Republie National Bank in Dallas April 21, starting at 2 p.m. Principal item on this year's agenda will be the ballotting by stockholders on a recent recommendation made by the board of directors to declare a 10 per cent stock dividend.

Meeting notices mailed this week reveal that stockholders will be requested to authorize the issuance of additional stock sufficient to pay the 10 per cent stock dividend. John M. Morris, secretary, said March 23, 1959, had been fixed as the date of record to govern eligibility to vote. Should stockholders. follow the recommendation of Lone Star's board and approve the stock dividend, this will be the third consecutive year In which a 10 per cent stock dividend has ben declared..