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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, I960 Track Driver Gets 6 Months DECATUR, Ga. (AP)-A daring young man who drove hit car five miles down's railroad (rack, over and a bridge right in front of a fast freight train. spend the next six months safely in jail. "I'll be swan if I know why we didn't run over him or why he Jury Calls Dennis Dad LOS ANGELES Bing Crosby's son Dennis has been declared the father of a girl born out of wedlock three years ago to a Hoi- lywood divorcee. didn't run off a trestle or thing," marveled train engineer J.

B. Broom. Police who rushed to the scene and arrested Theron Luther George 18, also had words of praise tor the young daredevil's skill in negotiating the track and trestles in the early morning dark ness without a mishap, with Broom's train whistling impatiently behind. Judge Not Impressed But UcKalb County Judge Oscar Mitchell was not so impressed. "When I asked him what was his excuse he jusl said he was guilty and didn't have an excuse," the judge cmmented in passing sentence Wednesday.

Broom said he first spotted the car sailing along the Seaboard Air Line tracks ahead of him at 4 p. m. Tuesday, its left wheels iia icn Well, I expected it," said the'running on the crossties between son of the famous singer after the 9-3 verdict was returned Wednesday in Superior Court. "We've won, honey," rejoiced Marilyn Miller Scott, picking up her (laughter. Denise.

(he girl -whose paternity was at issue. "We've won, we've won." responded Denise, who was in Ihe courtroom throughout the weeklong trial. Seven women and two men on live jury, composed entirely of parents, found that the prematurely bald Crosby fathered the girl at Mrs. Scott in February of 1957. Since this was a civil and nol a criminal action, a unanimous verdict was not required.

Crosby, 26, and Mrs. Scott, 28, were instructed to return to court Tuesday. At that time the court could determine the amount Cros-' below. the tracks and its right, wheels on the dirt right of-way. Every time the driver came to a trestle he pulled all four wheels up on the crossties and bumped on across the engineer said.

"If we'd come on that guy anywhere else along there we'd have overrun him sure. On Straight Stretch "We happened to see him on a straight stretch, but after that we lost sight of him because of all Ihe curves anj hills and I didn't make more lhan seven or eight miles an hour because I was afraid I'd overrun him," Broom said. Broom said every time his train went over a trestle he looked down, expecting to see the w-eck- age of the car on the highway by will have lo pay for the child's support. But this could be delayed by an appeal. Dennis never admitted paternity but said he Save Mrs.

Scott $5000 "We crossed three trestles in all and he wasn't down there under any of them." Creeping along in the darkness so as not to smash into the rear when she approached him and le car Broom said after told him of her condition. He said' tie later agreed to a private arrangement under which he would pay her $300 a month. When she brought suit, he was ordered to pay 5330 monthly pending trial. Crosby and his wife have one child and are expecting another. He has adopted her 9-year-old son by a previous marriage.

Would Pay Off Forged Check SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP)-A New Jersey grandfather lias offered to make good the $45 hot check written by a San "Antonio woman on a Christmas Eve to buy food for her children. Fred Kassouf of Saddle Brook, N.J. said in a letter addressd to the county jail that Mrs. Lee Goid- ing, 36, could have committed a bigger crime than to forge a check to buy food for her children.

"God has been good lo me my family and I want be good to Him loo. So please ask the grocery store owner, the DA, and the judge that if I pay the $45 will they please give this young mother another chance? Mother and children belong together," he crossing an overpass "we saw him standing there right in the middle of the tracks and laughing at us and waving his hands. So I laughed about time, too, and got out to see what had happened. Police Walling "I didn't get a chance to talk to htm much because the cops came up about lhat lime," he added. Police had been tipped previously lhat a car was running down the track, its headlights on and horn blowing.

The engineer said when Hie police were leading George off to jail he shouted for Broom lo get a cable and pull his car off the tracks. "I reckon Vie was afraid a Irain might hit it," Broom said. Man Finds Wrong Skunk SALMON, Idaho (AP)-Peewee, deodorized pet skunk of Larry Boll, wandered away last week. The loss was reported over local radio station KSRA. Ray Woods called the station Pavlick Faces More Charges WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.

charges will be filed today against Richard Pavlick, facing federal prosecution for planning to bomb President- elect John F. Kennedy. Palm Beach County Solicitor Joel Daves said county charges were contemplated as a precautionary measure to hold Pavlick if Belmont, N. ex-postal clerk freedom in federal courts. Daves marie his announcement after conferring with federal prosecutors.

He said he will charge Pavlick, 73, with possessing dynamite with intent to harm persons or property, and with failing to get a license to carry the explosives. Pavlick was arrested Dec. 10. Wednesday to report that a skunk, He told officers he planned had walked into Ihe open back door of his home. The animal was so friendly and lame, Woods felt sure it must be Peevcee.

The station notified Bell and he and his wife, Linda, went lo the Woods home. "That isn't Peewee," cried Linda when she saw Ihe animal. Everyone fled, as it became obvious this skunk was a stranger. While Ihe Woods' home was being aired out, the strange skunk- stalked haughtily back into the woods. Hope Hairy Cracks Joke HOLLYWOOD (AP)-Bob Hope, jusl returned from his annual tran- of overseas military bases, jays Ihe boys loved bn aii'ia and one of his gags.

Hope and his Zsa Zsa Gabor and Janis Paige- spent eight days in Ihe Caribbean area and made a stop at the U. S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. At Guantanamo, Hope said, "I lotd Ihcm: 'Here you don'l have lo say friend or foe, just reach out ana feel their "Thcjr loved that one," Hope blow up Kennedy and himself because "Kennedy money bought the election. 1 Woman Admits Killing Mate DETROIT (AP)-A mother of three (old police Wednesday lhat she and not an intruder shoe and killed her husband.

Walter A. Peters. 45. was shot twice in Ihe head Dec. 12 as he sat in his home counting (he re- ceipls from his beer and wine store.

Jeanetle Peters. 38, first told police siie heard shots, ran downstairs with a pistol and fired two shots al the intruder as he fled. Bnl she told Detective Lt, Jerry Isaac on Wednesday lhal the slaying climaxed a long series of arguments about finances. Isaac quoted her as saying, "I went downstairs and came up behind him. His head was bent over.

I shot twice." Gets His Boy HOLLYWOOD (API Actor Steve McQueen is a father for the second time. His wife Neile gave birth Wednesday lo a son not yet named. They have a daughter, Terry, almost 2. gLYTHEVTLLE (ARK.) COURIER NXWS SPEAKER Dr. Remiss Rehfeldt of Kansas City, for 12 years foreign missions secretary for the Church of the Nazarene, will be the speaker at 10:45 a.

m. and 7:30 m. at First Church of the Nazarene Sunday. He'll also speak at watch-night services which begin at 8:30. Commodity And Stock Markets QUOTATIONS Chicago Com Afar noli HO 110 May 11354 113S Chicogo Soybenns Jan 229Vi Mar 23Ui 233-U May 234 234 July 235 235 New Cotton Mar May July Get Dec 3217 3217 3213 3215 3263 3263 3257 3257 3302 3302 3302 3302 3362 3362 3358 3358 3368 33S9 3363 3363 New York Stocks Douglas Air Gen Motors Ford Central Steel A Sears Montgomery Ward Coca Cola OQI Amer Tobacco Pepsi Cola Greyhound i 28 A HCA Extra Plumbing FAYETTE.

Ala. (AP)-Agalha Vick planning to lease a house she owns here, and she opened it to house-hunters. Then she got a call from one of the lookers, inquiring about the two stills in the basement. Stills? What stills? Mrs. Vick notified Fayette County sheriff's officers, who found a pair of stills had been set up in the basement of the vacant house; OBITUARY Mrs.

Ado Hatley Rites Friday Services for Mrs. Ada Lee Hatley. 66, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Cobb Funeral Home chapel, Rev. James C.

Miller officiating. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. She died early today at Walls Hospital. She had lived in the BIytheville area since 1014. Survivors include her husband.

A. C. Hatley of Blylheville. a son, Warren Hatley of Blylheville; a daughter, Mrs. Witma Houchin of Blytheville; A brother, Tom Turner of Jackson, three sisters, Mrs.

W. 0. Rodgers of Cooler, Mrs. J. T.

Bowman of Marianna, and Mrs. R. G. Peterson of Jackson, Tenn. Pallbearers will be 0.

D. Bonds, Carl Webster, Harry Manlz, Lyman Henson, B. F. Rhoades, and Clyde Talkington. tt.OOO in 19C4 KOOO in each ot the jwt 19U, 1066 and 1967 15,000 in 1963 $6,000 in each of the years 1969, 1970, 1071, 1972 and 1973 17,000 in 1974 in each of the years 1975 and 1976 19,000 in each of the years 1977, 1978 and 1979 in each of the years 1980 and 1981 The bonds maturing in the years 1962 lo 1969, inclusive, bear interest at the rate of annum and Ihe bonds maturing in the years 1970 lo 1981, inclusive, bear interest at the rate at 4.277% per annum.

The bonds will be payable from the proceeds of a building lax 10 mills Ihrough 1966 and 20 mills thereafter voted by the electors of the Dislricl at Ihe December 6, I960 school election, which will continue annually until Ihe principal and interest of the bonds are paid in full. In addition, the bonds will be secured fay a pledge of all revenue lhat the District carrfegally pledge, including the annual surplus derived each year from the building fund lax previously voted for bonds now outstanding. The buyer may name the place of payment and trustee and shall have the right to convert the bonds lo a lower rate or rates of interest provided that (he conversion be in accordance with the Universal Bond Values Tables and upon such terms that the Dis- Irict receive no less and pay no more lhan it would receive and pay if Ihe bonds were not converl- ed, and provided further that the conversion is subject to the approval ot the Commissioner of Education. The expenses of the issue, including the printing and trusteeing of the bonds and Ihe fee of Mehaffy, Smith Williams, Attorneys, Little Rock, Arkansas, upon whose approving opinion the bonds will be issued, will be paid by Ihe District's fiscal agent. The bonds will be callable for payment prior to maturity in inverse numerical order at par and accrued interest as follows: From surplus proceeds of the building fund lax on any interest paying dale; from funds from any source on any interest paying date on and afler January 1, 1966.

The sale will be held upon auclion bids at 5:00 o'clock p.m. on Ihe 19lh day of January, 1961 in Ihe office of Superintendent of Schools in Gosnell, Arkansas. Each bidder will be required to file a certified check in the mount of $2446.00 on a bank that is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, payable to the District, to be kept as liquidated damages if the bidder is awarded the sale of the bonds and fails to complete the purchase. Checks of unsuccessful bidders will be promptly returned and the District will not pay interest on good faith checks. The District reserves the right lo reject any and all bids.

For further information, address the undersigned. Given this 38th day of December, I960. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF GOSNELL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. fi OF MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, ARKANSAS. By C.

A. Moody President Andy Bevill Secretary construction Khool bondi lo be (fated January 1, 1961, md bearing interest at the rate of per annum payable seml-annually on February 1 and August 1 of each year, commencing August 1. 1961, ond maturing serially on February 1 of each year as follows: $5.000 in each of yesrs 1971 and 1972 $6,000 in each ol the years 1973 and J974 $7,000 in each of Ihe jears 1975 and 1976 $8,000 in 1977 $3.000 in 1978 $10,000 in 1979 $11,000 in each of the years 1980 and 1981 The bonds of this issue and Ihe District's outstanding bonds will be payable from the proceeds oi a building fund lax of 15 mills to be collected Ihrough 1969 and 12 mills thereafter to be collected until all of the Dislricl's outstanding bonds and Ihe bonds of this issue are paid in full. With regard (o said continuing annual lax, the raid 15 mills have been previously voted for the payment of Ihe Dislricl's outslanding bonds. The said 15 mills to be collected through 1959 and 12 mills to be collected Ihereafler were voled for Ihe paymenl of the bonds of this issue, as well as for Ihe payment of (he District's outstanding bonds, in Ihe December 6, 1960 school election.

The buyer may name Ihe place of payment and trustee and shall have the right to convert the bonds to a lower rale or rales of interest provided that the conversion be in accordance with the Universal Bond Values Tables and upon such terms thai Ihe Dislricl receive no less and pay no more than il would receive and pay if the bonds were not converted, and provided further that the conversion is subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Education, The expenses of the issue, including Ihe prlnling and trusteeing of the bonds and the fee of Mehaffy, Smith Williams, Allorneys, Lillle Rock, Arkansas, upon whose approving opinion Ihe bonds will be issued, will be paid by the District's fis- NOTICB OK SALE OF SCHOOL BONDS Gosnell School Dislrict No. 6 of Mississippi Counly, Arkansas hereby gives nolice thai il will sell lo the highest bidder for cash its proposed issue of 8122,300 of refunding and construclion school bonds lo be dated January 1, 1961 and bearing interest at the rales of and annum pay able semiannually on January and July commencing July 1, and maturing serially on January 1 of each as follows: $1.300 in 1962 $1,000 in 1961 NOTICE OF SALE OF SCHOOL BONDS Armorel School District No. 9 of Mississippi County. Arkansas hereby gives nolice that it wil! sell to the highest bidder for cash its proposed issue of 585,000 of Brake Special i 1 95 moat We Use Raybestos Brake Shoes DAILEY A ROBINSON GARAGE tOt V. Mill SI.

Ph. PO 3-MI! For Fast Economical Service on Furnaces, Electric Wiring Repair Commercial Refrigeration Call CHARLEY'S Electric Co. PO 2-2993 We Sell ft Chrysler Air Temp, and Fedden Heatlnc ind Air Conditioning New location tfo. i PAGE cal agent. The bonds will be callable for payment prior to maturity in inverse numerical order al par and accrued Interest as follows: From surplus proceeds of Ihe building fund tax on any Interest paying dale; from funds from any source on any interest paying date on and after February 1, 1966.

The sale will be held upon auclion bids at 3:00 o'clock p.m. on the 19lh day ot January, 1961 in the office of Superinlendent of Schools in Armorel, Arkansas. Each bidder will be required lo file a certified check In Ihe amount of $1700 on a bank that is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, payable to the Dislrict, lo be kept as liquidated damages if the bidder (s awarded (he sale of the bonds and fails to complete the purchase, Checks of unsuccessful bidders will be promptly returned and Ihe District will not pay interest on good faith checks. The Dislrict reserves the right to reject any and all bids, For further information, address the undersigned. Given Ihis 24th day of December, I960.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF ARMOHEL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 9 OF MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, ARKANSAS By E. L. Hale President 1 Arthur Vance Secretary Coinette Laundries Coin Operated, Agitator-type Wash 9 Lb. 20e Dry 30 Min. 25e "We Never Close" 1916 W.

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