The Mexia Daily News from Mexia, Texas • Page 1

-A HOME-OWNED INDEPENDENT MEWSPAPEH SERVING THE PEOPLE 17 VOLUME LVltt UNITED PRESS PULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE MEXtA. TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1956 NEA COMPUTE FEATURE SERVICE All Around The World Wiih UNITED PRESS ROME United Secretary General Dag Hammarsk- jold left by air for New York Saturday to ask the big powers for new truce measures to keep the peace in the Middle East. The Swedish diplomat, his Middle East peace mission near completion, left with a report virtually completed on his new Arab- Israeli truce proposals. SEOUL P. N.

Shinickr. President Syngman Rhee's chief opponent in the May 15 presidential elections, died unexpectedly today. His death touched off anti- Rhee rioting in this Korean capital. Shinicky, leader of the opposition Democratic party, died of a cerebral hemorrhage while on a campaign tour in the town of Iri, 110 miles south of Seoul. LONDON Harold E.

Stassen said today the just-ended five- power disarmament conference cut the gap separating East and West almost by half but said the remaining negotiations will be the toughest. "The next year holds the best prospect of closing the remaining gap," he said. MOSCOW Russia has abol ished the "special boards" which for nearly 20 years had the power to imprison or exile "socially dan gcrous persons" without trial, it was reported today. The decree abolished the spec ial boards which had been oper ated by the NKVD secret police since 1934, and authorized persons sentenced by their surviving appeal the verdicts. PENSACOLA.

Fla. A torn ado dipped in over Pensacola Bay today, leveling a one-story brick building here but apparently there were no fatalities. William E. mai earner who, ducked the building a few minutes earlier tc escape a heavy rain, was injurec by falling debris but was not believed seriously hurt. Prices Increase At Weekly Cattle Sole In Groesbeck GROESBECK (UP) hundred and 51 head of cattle and calves were sold Thursday at the weekly livestock auction in Groesbeck and prices were stronger and demand was better because of recent rains.

Several buyers attended the sale from as far away as West Texas and Oklahoma. Prices paid included the following: Good and calves, $18 to $22; medium to good calves, $14 to $18; culls and low grades, $9 to $13; fat cows strong $11 to $13 with high yielding heifer kinds to $14; canners and cutters $7 to $11. Heavy fed yearlings and steers, $16 to $20.50 with some 900- pound heifers grading choice, $18 to $20; bulls, $11 to $14; good quality steer calves and yearlings, $15 to $19; plain kinds, $13 to $15; heifers, $12 to $15. Most of the stocker cows were being weighed and selling for $9 to $12 per hundredweight. Cows with calves by side, $125 to $150 in the better grades and $75 to $125 on the plain grades.

RICHARD E. PALMER DIES AT DAWSON Richard Ervin Palmer, 18, a former resident of Mexia, died Tuesday in Dawson. Funeral rites will be held Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Grove Island A. M.

E. Church. Burial will be in the Grove Island cemetery. Palmer was bprn in Mexia on Nov. 18, 1937 and liyed here until a year and a half ago.

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Florence Curry, Mexia; his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Palmer, of Dawson, and a stepfather, John Curry, Mexia.

-o- QUAKERS PROTEST BOMBS TESTS BY U. S. MADISON, Wis. (UP) -Six Quakers today started the second and final day of their 48-hour hunger strike in protest of the U. S.

H-bomb tests being conducted in the Pacific. The six plan to live on liquids until breakfast Sunday morning. Bryan Women Hurt In Mexia Crash HUM8EH 108 Partly Cloudy U. S. Wealhtr Burtau cast for Mexia Central Texasi Partly cieii4y fsturday night.

Sunday moitty cloudy, scattered showers and little in temperatures. Sunday! Low 82, high 13. related wealher story on Page 1. Col. 2.) A headon collision which, occurred almost In front of the Fuioxian Furniture morning sent two women from Bryan to a local hospital with multiple injuries.

The two- car crash happened shortly before 7 a. m. Mrs. Calvin Moore had just taken her husband to work at the furniture factory and was returning to Mexia. Mrs.

Moore was still within a hundred yards of the factory when a 1949 Ford driven by Rufus Winn of Mexia, passed on her left and sideswiped the left rear fender of her car. Winn. then swerved to the left to clear Mrs. Moore's car and ran headon into a 1961 Dodge occupied by Mrs. Mary Virginia Lyles and Mrs.

Mary Adkins of Bryan. Mrs. LyleR is the daughter of Mrs. Adkins. Winn was uninjured except for a small cut on his forehead.

The women both suffered severe lacerations and abrasions of the arms, and shoulders. X-rays have been taken to determine any bones were broken. Winn is shown standing beside hit car. Mrs. Lyles is shown 'on a stretcher before being put in an ambulance.

(Mexia Daily News Photos.) Mexia Conventions Split On Shivers And Johnson First Hydrogen. Bomb To Be Dropped From Plane Planned By US THE McKINLEY AT ENIWETOK force official announced today that an eight jet B-52 intercontinental bomber will make America's firs H-bomb airdrop next week. The drop is scheduled for about 45 minutes before sunrise May 8 12:25 p.m. cst -May 7, weather conditions permit ting. The shot, named will be one of the biuges of the, current series, which was kicked off Saturday with the, explosion.

of an atomic warhead equal in power to 5,000 10,000 tons of TNT. More than 10 shots in all arc planned for the test program call ed "Operation Redwing." The huge bomber will drop the bomb in such a way as to achieve an airburst several thousand fee over the center of Namu Island Bikini atoll. It will loose a bias More Rain Forecast In Some Parts Of State By United Press Light rain fell over southeast Texas today and extreme North Texas was warned to expect thunderstorm activity tonight. Elsewhere, skies were generally fair to partly cloudy. The upper coast got most of the rain.

At 6:30 a.m., Houston reported .08 of an inch, Texas Doctors Name Dr. Denton Kerr As President-Elect Dr. Denton Kerr of Houston, ias been elected to serve as president-elect of the Texas Medical Association. He will become pres- dent at the next convention to be held at Dallas in 1957. Dr.

Kerr is the brother of Thur- Kerr, business manager of Mexia State School and ibme. He was elected to the office at meeting of the association at ralveston in the Galvez Hotel where he once worked as a bellboy while attending the University of Texas Medical School. After serving in the Army dur- ng World War II, Dr. Kerr re- urned to Houston and became assistant professor of gynecology at Baylor University College of of Medicine. In 1951 he was honored by the junior and senior as the outstanding teacher of the year.

In 1951 he was president of he Association of American Phy- icians and Surgeons, and in 1949 )e was president of the Harris County Medical Society. PETUNIA TRAIL OPEN AT DAIRY KING The Petunia trail is now open at the Dairy King in Mexia and iwner Chris Roco invites every- to come out and see. the ilo- wers in full bloom. The flowers almost encircle the building and greatly enhance the appearance the area. LEE HORTON RITES MONDAY IN DALLAS Lee Horton, of Dallas, died sud- yesterday and funeral services will be held Monday inorn- ng at 10:30 at the Highland Park Methodist Church.

Mr. Horton's wife, trje former ane Robinson, is the sister of N. Robinson of Mexia. Morse code visual signaling irst was used by the U. S.

Army the Navajo campaign in uue of Port Arthur .50, and Galveston .15. Daytime temperatures in West Texas were expected to be rather high a weather bureau spokes man said, except for the Panhandle and around the El Paso area. The weather there was expected to be cooler today and Sunday. The eastern sector will continue to be mild. Low overnight minimum temperatures ranges from 54- at Salt Flat to 73 at Corpus Christi, The high minimums yesterday ranged from 78 at Galveston to 104 at Presidio.

Showers gave the weekend a wet start for the Pacific Northwest today, dumping more than inches of rain in 12 hours on Red Bluff in northern California. Drizzling rain alternated with showers in sections of the Midwest while snow fell over the Northern Rockies. More light rain was reported in New England and along the Middle Atlantic Coast. Carlsbad, N. sweltered in 98-degree temperatures yesterday, but early this morning residents near Mt.

Washington, N. H. watched their thermometers drop as low as 16 degrees. WOOD ALCOHOL FATAL TO NINE AFRICANS DURBAN, South Africa (UP) Africans died, four were made critically ill and 40 were threatened with blindness after staging a wild party in a railway compound. The men made drinks from liquid out of a drum they smuggled out of a railroad yard.

Officials said the drum contained wood alcohol. MOTORIST JAILED FOR EATING TICKET TEMPLE CITY, Calif. (UP) -Motorist Gene Arthur Johnson, 25, was jailed yesterday by the patrolman who gave him speeding ticket. The policeman said Johnson acepted, folded and ate the ticket. World's largest artesian well is located at Roswell, N.

M. It furnishes 13,000,000 gallons of water per day. Teenage School Boy Kills One Teacher, Wounds Two Others SEAT PLEASANT, Md. handsome teenage school boy who killed one teacher and wounded two others in a bloody shooting rampage today faced a possible double murder charge. Police said 15-year-old Billy Frevatte yesterday shot to death Prazer Cameron while apparently hunting for the principal of Maryland Park junior high school.

Minutes later he critically wounded Dan Wagner, school baseball coach, and shot Robert Hicks, a seventh grade teacher, in the hand. Wagner underwent an emergency, operation. 'PrincenGeorges county hospital. The hospital reported tiis condition' critical, i Police said Pre'vatte 1 told'them he wanted kill John Hrezo because of a reprimand Hrezo gave him earlier in the day. They said he told them he had nothing against the three teachers.

Workmen captured Prevatte fleeing the school while pupils cried and screamed hysterically. He was jailed on a charge of murder and assault with intent to kill. Police said Prevatte moved to surburb of the nation's capi- only recently from Raleigh, where he was expelled from school for threatening a teacher with a knife. Geronirno was a medicine man of the Apache Indians. John Graham Sentenced To Die For Plane Bombing DENVER (UP) John Gil bert Graham, outwardly calm and remorseful, was convicted first degree murder last night in the sabotaging of an airliner tha crashed and killed 44 persons, in eluding his widowed mother.

The verdict, without a recom inebriation from the jury, auto matically meant death for the 24 year-old perpetrator of the wors commercial airline tragedy in history. Chief defense counsel Charles Vigil announced minutes after the verdict he would appeal the case to the state Supreme Court. The jury, made up of seven iien and five women, deliberatec Graham's fate for only one hour and 12 minutes. Graham was stunned when he heard the verdict. He didn't blink an eye.

while it was- being read A few minutes later he was escorted from the courtroom by four guards. In the hallway just iiutside the courtrom, he bowed his head while manacles were fastened to his wrists. On his way to the hall, the defendant passed by his weeping young wife, pretty Gloria Graham, 22, mother of the convicted murderer's two children. In closing arguments, veteran District Attorney Bert Keating pictured Graham as a "greedy, grasping" killer who would, and did, place a homemade time bomb aboard a United Airlines DC-6B to kill his mother, Mrs. Daisie E.

King, 54, for her trip insurance. The airliner blew to pieces "in flight a few minutes out of Denver and crashed in a sugar, beet field near Longmont, the night of Nov. 1. Had the plane not been late in taking off, it would have crashed over the Rocky Mountains, and the sabotage might have gone undetected, as the prosecution Graham's plan. claimed wus Limestone County Dairy Day Program Planned on May 11 Limestone county's annual Dairy Day will be held on May 11 at the Jack's Creek reunion grounds.

The program will start ut 10:30 a.m. Of interest to cattlemen of this area will be Dr. William O. Trogden's discussion on soil management for pasture production that afternoon at 1:15. Dick Burleson, of Texas College, will discuss the latest developments in dairying, and Dr.

Carroll, of the Livestock Sanitary Commission, will discuss the legal aspects of the Bangs Control law which goes into effect on Sept. 1, 1958. The annual program is sponsored by dairymen of Limestone county. equal to several million tons TNT. A group of 15 newsmen and 17 civil defense officials will witness the big explosion.

It will be the first time outsiders ever saw a U. S. H-Bomb explode. Prior to the shot day, an intensive search will be made to be sure nobody is in the 400,001 square mile hazard area markcc off in the Pacific for this test scr- ies. The only people left in Bikini atoll will be a small party at the firing station on Enyu Island.

The station is constructed to provide safety from the blast, waves and fallout kicked up by the bomb. Test officials said the B-52 crew had made repeated practice runs with dummy bombs, but they refused to explain what methods the bomber would use to get away from the blast after the said they were confident the big plane can easily race to safety, after the bomb starts falling. Writer Is Blind From Acid Hurled At Him Last Month NEW YORK (UP) The New York Daily Mirror ran a banner headline today about its labor columnist but he never will be able to read it. The headline said "Victor Riescl Totally Blind." Doctors said last night that the labor wi'iter, attacked a month ago by a thug who hurled burning acid in his face, has Irrevocably lost tho sight of both eyes. They said he took the bitter news itocially.

Riesel, 41 and father of two children, hud made a radio broadcast shortly before the early morning attack in which he lambasted labor racketeers, frequent of his syndicated column. He had gone to Lindy's on for a snack after the jroudcast and had just left the restaurant with his assistant, Miss Betty Nevins, when the thug struck. The attacker, described as a "nice-looking young man," walked up to Riescl and tossed the contents of a small bottle of sulphuric acid in the columnist's face. TURNER COOK WILL BE BURIED SUNDAY Funeral services will be held at he Haynes Temple Church of Jhrist Sunday at 2 p.m. for Turner Cook, 62, who died in Mexia Wednesday.

Elder A. R. Hudson will officiate and burial will be Mexiu's Henderson cemetery. Cook is survived by a son, Tur- icr Cook, Mexiu, and two daughters, Mrs. Talmodge Frankin, Texarkana, and Mrs.

Betty Williams, Los Angeles, Calif. Spring Has Caught Up With Students On College Campuses Across Country By United Press Spring has caught up with the college students and today it is Austin' out on campuses all over the country. Police rounded up 116 University of Pensylvania students who took over an intersection in Philadelphia and battled cops behind des into the early morning lours. The students hurled eggs the police who tried to arrest them. The 116 were jailed to wait hearings.

In New Haven, five Yale students were arrested during a march through downtown streets. Blasts from all sorts of musicul nstruinents rent the air, paper and debris wus tossed from dor- mitory windows. The students arrested were charged with breach of peace attributed to "a mass case of spring fever" on the eve of Saturday's Carnegie Cump Re- gattu. In New Brunswick, N. six Rutgers University students were arrested in the wake of violent water buttle between fraternity men.

'and independents. The battle lusted about four hours. The six were charged with disorderly conduct. They were released it: $1,000 bail pending hearing. At Austin, some 40 mule students at the University of Texas raided a sorority house and made of! with 13 pairs of punties, lour and three brassieres.

Officers said the climbed ladders to the sorority house second story und kicked in window to stuge the punty ruid. Rioting also broke out ut the University of Southern Culifor- niu in Los Angeles, where several hundred students staged an uprising on fraternity row. They attacked a news photographer, threw wine bottles, beer cans and firecrackers and set a big bonfire in the middle of the street. The photographer suffered two fractured ribs. The riot was blamed on a "secession from the union" celebration by the Kappa Alpha fraternity, which has no chapters north of the Muson-Dixon line.

Mexia Speaker H. I. Taylor, minister of the New Road Church of Christ of Waco, will be in charge of a series of gospel meetings May 6-13 at the Church of Christ at Bonham and Milam Street! in Mexia. Services will be held each night at 7:30, Shivers Criticizes Federal Handouts In Convention Talk ATLANTIC CITY. N.

J. Allan Shivers of Texas strongly criticized "federal hand outs" Saturday and called for a "return to stales' rights." Shivers told the 62nd annuu convention of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association the iedera government "takes share of tax revenue tiebded to solve the problems we face am then turns around and tells us that we arc not equipped to solve those problems." Describing himself as a "Wil- sonjun liberal," the Texas governor-said the be 1 a servant and not a And )ici claimed federal control was' "one of the evils that accompany federal ''Some of us want tp stein the tide; toward hq saifl. "Same of us still' belieye so strongly; In the basic, pVeceiits of Am.eric!an dt'macrftcy 'we siiUablp 'means of restoring power to the people, where it was intended by pur forefather's that it'Shpuld i-cside. 'I'Spm'e of us urc so' put of date $tytyG still road the cpngt.HuiFtyi tsel'f instead' of relying on what some Supreme Court justices or ederal-minded congressman or iomo stumbling, bumbling Wush- ngton pw'eaucrut says the constitution is," he said. Shivers also claimed there was 'more and more evidence of the supreme Court moving into tho cglslulive field, of the legislative jranch trying to usurp powers of the executive branch or of the executive branch trying to take over both of the other branches, us Roosevelt did." Carl S.

Hereford Joins Equipment Company In Dallas C. S. retiring superintendent of Mexiu schools, IBS accepted position with the 3ulf States Equipment Company jf Dallas, He will represent 50 counties in Joutheust Texas, including Lime- tone. The Gulf States company ells school and church furniture nd supplies. Mr.

Hereford will continue to erve as superintendent until the xpjratiori of his contract on June 0. He will be succeeded at that ime by Alton O. Bowen, who is ow superintendent ut Rosebud, By joining the Dallas firm, Mr. iereford ends a 32-year career as i school administrator. He was lected principal of the elemen- ury school in Granger in 1023, He has served as Buperintond- nt of Mexia schools since July, 940.

Prior to that he was sup- rintendent of schools at Hullets- ille lor 10 years. Mr. and Mrs. Hereford will ontinue to make their home in Mexia. Hi by Olin Miller I A icientiit ays there ain't no luch thing it tolid matter, He ought to have hit head amined.

Motion Passed To Continue Segregation More than 200 Mexia voters attended two precinct conventions here this morning and split down the middle on the mcnt of Gov. Allan Shivers and Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson. voters of Precinct 2.passed a resolution to continue segregation in the schools of Texas.

One hundred and 60 voters attended tho convention of Precinct 2 at the city auditorium and agreed to endorse Gov. Shivers as chairman of the Texas delegation to the national convention. Between 50 and 60 people attended tho convention of Precinct 2-B at the Dunbar Negro high school and voted to endorse Sen. Johnson as chairman of tho Texas delegation to the national convention and as Texas' favorite son for president. At the city auditorium, Jake Stubbs was elected permanent chairman and Miss Ilcne Westmoreland was elected secretary.

The following were elected to attend the county Democratic convention to be held in the county courthouse at Grocsbcck Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock: F. W. Welch, John Nqece, R. S. (Bob) Fain, Lynn Adams, Mrs.

Dick Scott, Miss llenc Westmoreland, J. H. Nussbttum, Mrs. W. M.

White Mrs. Blako Smith, Raymond L. Dillqrd, Mrs, Tom Anderson, J. G. Coman, Burleson Wilson, T.

B. Chatham, A. W. DoGuirc. Lynn Adams, Mrs.

W. W. Mason, W. W. Meson, L.

K.i Simpson, p. Portta, man Hitt, and Rfcy Goqdspn, fiWto Fain, LMfr Alaihi; J. G. Coman, and Mrs. Litzlc Moo to a committee to prepare resolutions.

Resolutions passed city hall convention ate ii iolWws; 1. Bo it resolved ttat the delegates of this convention are instructed to support Allan Shivers at the county convention as chairman of the Texas delegation to the national convention! 2. Be it resolved that this con- vention'feo on record as supporting interposition, States Rights, and opposing Integration or Negro and white children in schools of the state of Texas. 3. Be it resolved that the delegates to the county convention urc instructed to vote as a unit under the unit rule.

All of these rosolutiqns were signed by members of the special committee. Delegates elected at the Prec- nct 2-B convention to the coun- convention arc as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Dan Dove, Mr, Mrs. Dee Black, Mr.

and Mrs. Otho Reeves, Alvis Fore, Andrcjv 1illiaa.n, J. W. Booker, Ley! Jhornpson, Louis Arrant, Mr. and Mrs.

Jim Rogers, nd Juno Ash burn. The only resolution passed at ho Precinct 2-6 convention was endorse Sen. Johnson as chairman of the Texas delegation tq he national convention and us uvorlto son for president. At the city nail convention, Jlmrlos O. Barker offered reso.

ution to name Sen. Johnson aa jhairinan of the Texas delegation but the motion was tabled. The city hall convention lasted about 40 minutes and Jake 3tubbs, chairman, says "there was ittle djssentlon." In the voting, 09 cast their ballots for Shivers with 51 voting Johnson. Dan Dove, chairman of Pre- inct 2-B, says there was hardly any dlssontion ut the Dunbar cou- ention, 0 Former Resident Of Mexio Killed In Auto Acident Funeral services were held at icbanon Thursday for Curtis )uvlin, 52, former resident of who was killed Tuesday in automobile accident near Lebanon. Burial was in Wichita 'alls.

DavlJn was born in Easterly in Robertson and had been an nloye of the Stanolind Oil Com- juny for some 30 years. He was with the company exia as a telegraph or a period of 19 years, rom hero sometime in the Besides hit! wife, he is survived a son, Curtis Leo DavUn. oj an Piako; his mother, Mjs, Devlin, of Franklin; twu Mrs. Austin, and tintey Qayljn Btti PivUn, ol Order. was.