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HOME OWNED INDEPENDENT MEWSPAPER SEHVING THE PEOPLE 17 YEAHS- VOLUME LVIH UNITED FJRESS FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE MEXIA, TEXAS, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1956 NEA COMPLETE FEATURE SERVICE NUMBER 157 Ike Tells Doctors He Feels Fine President Gives No Hint Of His Political Future GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UP) President Eisenhower told his doctors today he is "feeling stronger and stronger each day." The President have no hint, however, as to what effect his improving condition will have on his political future. Mr. Eisenhower came here Saturday for a convalescence of at least two weeks after his June 9 operation to correct an intestinal obstruction. The optimistic report on the President's condition was relayed to newsmen by White House secretary James C.

Hagerty after Mr. Eisenhower held a one-hour work session in the downstairs den of his farm home. The president signed 22 bills, including Ihe controversial $34.6 billion defense appropriations bill. The chief executive made no comment on the $900 million additional voted by congress for the air force. The president also vetoed two minor relief bills.

Earlier he held his first staff conference since arriving here. Staff Members Late Staff members were about 15 late for thei rconference with the convalescing President. Threatening weather delayed the two planes on the flight from Washington. "How does it feel to be commuting again?" a reporter asked presidential assistant Sherman Adams as he stepped from the first plane. "Seems like old times," Adams said as he got into a car to drive to the President's farm about five miles away.

Mr. Eisenhower held staff conferences and cabinet'meetings at or near his farm while recuperating last year from his Sept. 24 heart attack. Now that Mr. Eisenhower is out of the hospital, he will gradually increase the tempo of his work.

Newsmen expect to hear soon whether the cabinet and National Security Council will meet at the Gettysburg farm while the President is recuperating from his June 9 intestinal operation. Mr. Eisenhower's ability to measure up to the quickening pace he sets for himself could be a decisive factor in his decision on his political future. He is expected 10 make a statement soon on his intentions now that the opening of the Republican national convention is only seven weeks away. Mexio Theatre Will Show Movie About Famed Indian Chief "Comanche" a movie about Chief Quanah Parker, will be shown at the Mexia theatre in Mcxia Wednesday through Friday of this week.

Chief Quanah Parker was the sun of Cynthia Ann Parker, a while girl who was captured by the Comanche Indians at the fall of Fort Parker. Robert Scott, manager of the local theater, stated however, that the movie does not include any scenes or events of Fort Parker. The movie deals mainly with Comanche raids along the border of the United States and Mexico and of Quanah leading the Indians back to the reservation. ARMY PRIVATE DROWNS IN LAKE 1MOWNSV1LLE, N. J.

(UP) -Army Pvt. Clarence Bell, 20, Dallas, drowned here Sunday while attempting to swim across Mirror Lake, Bell, stationed at nearby Fort Dix, had returned from Europe a week ago and was awaiting discharge. INCREASE SEEN IN MEXIA POSTAL RECEIPTS An increase has been noted in postal receipts at the U. S. Post Office in Mexia.

G. E. (Jimmic) Blair, postmaster, says receipts for the first six months of 1951) total compared with $27,093.10 for the first'six months of 1955, an increase of about six percent. Groesbeck Contestants The list of contestants for the Mexia Fourth of July "Miss Holiday" contest continues to grow. Among the latest entries' are (lefi to right) Semie Berry.

Martha Ashburn, Judy Melton, and Barbara Henderson, all of Groesbeck. Miss Melton won third place in the Mexia contest last summer. (Mexia Daily News Photo.) Two Candidates Invited To Speak On Race Issue PALESTINE (UP) Ralph Yarborough -and J. Evetts Haley were invited today to settle their differences on seg- regmrtorr at a July 4 VPW--bai rally. Both the gubernatorial candidates for governor are expected to attend the rally.

State Rep. Jerry Sadler of Hickory Grove in Anderson county said he had advised both men. "boxing gloves, referees and a goodly crowd will be furnished in order that your differences may be settled. Meanwhile labor and liberalism shared the spotlight today in Texas' Democratic primary race for governor. Speaking at Abilene, Reuben Senterfitt said Texas voters "can support the cause of conservatism with Reuben Senterfitt or the cause of liberalism with Ralph Yarborough." U.

S. Sen. Price Daniel tossed Mrs. A. Palmour Funeral Services Set For Wednesday Mrs.

A. B. Palmour, 7C, a resident of the Tehuacana area for the past 50 years, died at her home in Tehuacana at 5:30 this morning. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 9:30 at the First Baptist Church in Tehuacana with the Rev. W.

A. Cockrell, of Chester, and the Rev. Ernest Hewelt, of Tehuacana, officiating. Burial will be in the Tehuacana cemetery with the Riddle Funeral Home of Mexia in charge of arrangements. Mrs.

Palmour was born at Trion, Georgia, on March 21, 1878. She was preceded in death by her husband on Dec. 28, 1936. Survivors include six daughters, Miss Vera Mae Palmour and Mrs. C.

A. Crow, both of Tehuacana; Mrs. Camp Crow, Hutchins; Mrs. V. O.

Vinson, Mexia; and Miss Beatrice Palmour and Mrs. T. J. Layne, both of Fort Worth. Also surviving are four sons, S.

R. Palmour, Tai't; Marlen Pal- inour, Fort Worth, Houston Palmour, San Antonio, and Dalton Boyd Palmour, Elizabeth, New Jersey; a sister, Mrs. Ed Hollis, Trion, Georgia; and two brothers, A. I. Dalton, Fyfe, Alabama, and Walton Dalton, Trion, Georgia.

She had 13 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, o- Cloudy and Warm United Slates Weather Bureau forecast lor Mexia and North Central Texas Partly cloudy and warm tonight and tomorrow with tered aiternoon and evening ihundershowers. The predicted low tonight will bo 76 and the high tomorrow will be about 99. Can of Gasoline Poured On Fire And Five Perish GONZALES (UP) A pile of grey asheis was a grim reminder today of the deaths of five persons four of them perished in a gasoline fine that consumed their small frame home Sheriff L. O. McGintly identified the victims as Mrs.

John Ge- vura, about 23; Martin Gevc-ra, Dave Ramos, Virginia Ramos, 12; and Alberto Ramos, about 9 or 10 years old. The four-room house went up in flames yesterday when one of the children poured a large can of gasoline on a wood stpve in the kitchen. The two youngest children, Martin Geveru and Dave Rumos died almost instantly. The three others died in a hospital a short time later, Sheriff McGinty said the Ram- OSCH and Geveras, farm laborers, wore related by marriage. There wore other members of the two families in the- house but (hey unhurt.

five questions at a labor leader and demanded he answer whether organized labor intends to "dominate" Texas politics at the July 28 Democratic primary election. Senlerfitt said his recent tours over Texas "convince me that the conservatives are in the majority and will turn out for both the July 28 primary and the precinct conventions the same day." Conservatives lost control of the state primary machinery in May at precinct and county conventions preceding the state Democratic convention. Sees Fence-Riding "As far as the precinct ponven- tions are concerned, it is now obvious after the May state convention there can be no place for so- called fence-riding, moderate leaders like Price Daniel and W. Lee O'Daniel," Senlerfitt said. both opponents programs of in- and unlimited of to He charged "disguise their creased taxes spending by the same term 'moderation' which was used mislead so many people at the May convention in Dallas." Daniel, appearing at Marlin, sent a telegram to Jerry Holleman, executive secretary of the Texas Stale Federation of Labor.

The junior senator said he had been "publicly attacked" at a convention of the TSFL last week in Austin "and another candidate for governor publicly praised and financed," Austin attorney Ralph Yarborough, candidate for governor, appeared before the convention. A "pass-the-hat" collection for campaign contributions -o- u. aj started. NEW WORK STOPPAGES THREATENED IN POLAND BERLIN (UP) New work stoppages that threatened to blossom into another general strike today hit riot-torn Poznan. The new stoppages came in the midst of an armv roundup of suspected leaders of week's three day uprising.

An estimated 1,000 persons have been urresled, witnesses reported. Chippendale furniture is that made by or in the style of Thomas Chippendale, English cabinetmaker. HELICOPTERS MOVE It IES FROM AIR DISASTER SCENE School nstruction Ill To Be Decided This Week? By House WASHINGTON, D. House planned to begin voting today on school construction bill amendments- including the controversial proposal to bar school building funds to states refusing to integrate. The House set aside this afternoon and tomorrow for voting on amendments.

A final vote on the billion school construction bill is not expected before Thursday. The most controversial amendment being offered is the proposal by Negro Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, New York Democrat withholding federal funds to southern states re-' fusing to end racial segregation in classrooms. It has sparked a civil rights debate that cuts across party lines. Also up for a vote was a series of amendments sponsored by Rep.

Samuel K. McConnell Pennsylvania Republican, to distribute school aid funds to states on the basis of their financial need rather than allotting so much per pupil as the bill now provides. Chairman Graham A. Barden, North Carolina Democrat of the House Education Committee offered a "states rights" amendment designed to strip the bill of all federal control over distribution of the money. There was no indication in what order the amendments would be voted on.

In other congressional news, the Senate Air Power subcommittee called Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson back for questioning in an effort to pin down whether the administration plans to use the extra $900 million Congress voted the Air Members want Wilson to clarify his previous statement that the administration's military budget is adequate for national security withoul the additional money. House staff investigalors charged that some states getting federal help for school buildings near defense installations received a higher payment rate than the construction cost. They said the U. S.

Office of Education set a higher rate for federal assistance in some states than was requested to "appease the states" and "to avoid hard feelings." Office of education officials denied the accusations. Chairman James P. Richards of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said he will hold out "as long as I can" for $1.1 billion cut the House made in President Eisenhower's $4.9 billion foreign aid program. However, he said some compromise probably will be reached by the House-Senate Conference Committee between the $3.8 billion measure approved Senate. by the Four People Die In Central Texas Highway Accidents WACO Three collisions in the Central Texas area yesterday, including a total of 10 vehicles, killed four persons and injured several others.

Killed in the actidents were Mrs. Julia Thornton, 50. of Hillsboro; Mr. and Mrs. J.

C. Riddle, of Mart; and Glen McGee, 22, a civilian employe at Fort Hood. Mrs. Thornton was killed instantly in a four-vehicle collision 10 miles south of Hillsboro early Sunday. Her daughter, Sandra Ann, was taken to a Hillsboro hospital with a broken arm.

Officers said Mrs. Thornton's car and a truck driven by Andrew C. Coyle, 41, of Fairview, collided head-on, and two other cars rammed the wreckage. The driver of one of the Walter C. Brooks, 25, of Oakland, Negro, was treated for minor cuts.

Josephine Moore, 26, and Carnell Adams, 26, both of Fort Worth and in the other car involved, were treated for minor injuries, Riddle, 64, and his wife, Mrs. Evalena Riddle, 62, both died in a Waco hospital yesterday afternoon from injuries received in a three-car wreck in Waco about 1 a.m. Officers said one of the three cars involved in the wreck failed to stop after the accident. The vehicle was traced through descriptions of eyewitnesses and lound abandoned on a downtown street later. Officers arrested the owner at his home.

was killed early yesterday ia a three-car wreck between Gatesville and Fort Hood. The highway patrol office said occupants of the other cars involved weie not seriously injured. Storms Hit Nation And Four Killed By United Press thunderstorms, accompanied by tornadoes and waterspouts, ripped across Wisconsin and lower Michigan late yesterday, killing at least four persons and causing heavy property damage. High winds whistling across Lake Michigan sent a spectacular seiche or giant wave crashing along the eastern shoreline from Ludington, northward as far as Grand Traverse Bay. A light plane which crashed while attempting to land in a field near Manitowoc, accounted for one of the state's fatalities.

Killed was Edward Dett- ftiar. 39, West Bend, Wis. The pilot and another passenger escap- with injuries. The other dead all were drowning victims in wind-blown Lake Winncbago. They were Joseph Smolinski, 50, his brother John, 39, both of Mcnasha, and Frank Petzel, 61, of Oshkosh, Wis.

The turbulent weather, heralding a Canadian cold front, set off three small tornadoes in central and eastern Wisconsin. Two waterspouts were reported seen on Lake Winnebago. The tornadoes were spotted near Madison, Green Bay, Brussels, and Sparta. Comparatively minor damage was reported. Some Rain Due Skies were partly cloudy overmuch of Texas today and some scattered spots were expected to get some welcome, cooling thundershowers.

Thunderstorms occurred over the South Plains and west of the Pecos Valley and in parts of the northern Panhandle last night and weather forecasters said a few widely scattered thundershowers were expected over most of Texas today. Most of the rains at recording stations were fairly light. Up to 6:30 a.m. today Marfa had the heaviest rain with .35. Wink had .23, Alpine .18, Lubbock El Paso .06, Cotulla .02 and there were traces at Salt Flat.

Laredo and Corpus Christi. It was still raining in the Cotulla area. At Burlington, in Alfalfa county, a tornado demolished farm outbuildings and knocked down power lines, Funeral Services Planned Tuesday For Mrs. Ransom Funeral services are planned tomorrow at 3 o'clock at the Union Baptist Church for Mrs. Roxi'e Ransom who died at her home Friday afternoon.

Rev. W. H. Jones, patsor of the Bethsaida Baptist Church, will officiate with burial in Woodland Cemetery with Dorsey-Keatts in charge of arrangements. She is survived by her husband, Paul Ransom of Mexia, and her mother, Mrs.

Ella Jackson of Groesbeck, and seven daughters. Mrs. Thadis Jones of Dallas; Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, Fort Worth; Mrs. Ruth Moss, Lubbock; Mrs.

Pauline Hollie, Mexia; Mrs. Avis Y. Morgan, Coolidge; Mrs. Mae Ola TauMon, Coolidge, and Mrs. Adell Jackson of Fort Worth.

Eight brothers and three sisters also survive. NINE MEN INJURED IN PRISON RIOT PENDLETON, Ind. (UP) Prisoners today cleaned up the wreckage left by 25 rioting inmates in the Indiana state reformatory mess hall. Two guards and seven inmates were wounded, none seriously, in the' half-hour uprising Sunday. Damage to the mess hull and an adjoining storeroom was estimated at $1,000.

Among Final Entries Among the last minute entries in the Miss Holiday contest is Miss Francene Huichinson, pictured above. She is Ihe 17-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. V.

Van Meter of (Mexia Daily News Photo,) Two Men injured In Headon Crash North of Mexia Two men were seriously injured in a headon collision of an automobile and a pickup truck Saturday night near Mexia. They are Thomas J. Bryan Air Force base, and R. J. Smith, of Fort Worth.

The accident occurred at 9:15 p.m. four miles north of Mexia on Highway 14. Talbert was traveling north in a 193C Ford automobile and Smith was driving south in a 1936 Ford pickup. The two men were brought to a local hospital Corlcy ambulance. Talbert suffered internal injuries and a mangled left arm that may have to be amputated.

Smith suffered a serious arm injury. Talbert was transferred to the hospital at James Connally Air Force base in Waco and then was taken by plane to a hospital in San Antonio. Smith was transferred to a Fort Worth hospital. Mexia Represented Among Teachers At National Meeting Mr. and Mrs.

C. S. Hereford and Mrs. L. B.

Aultman of Mexia are attending the 94th annual convention of the National Education Association convention which opened today in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Hereford the former superintendent of Mexia Public Schools and Mrs. Aultman is an instructor in Ross Elementary School. She is past president of the Mexia Classroom Teachers Association.

More than 10,000 teachers are expected to attend the five day session. According to the United Press Eric roving ambassador to the Middle Ea.st and head of the Motion Picture Association of America, will address the general assembly in the public auditorium tonight. Dozens of topics will come before the five clay meeting but none appear more controversial than that of segregation ia the nation's public schools. FOUR MEN FINED ON DRUNK CHARGES Chief of Police Bill Parten said today that over the weekend in Mexia the local police arrested and fined four men on drunk charges. They also issued two reckless driving tickets, eight traffic tickets, and investigated eight disturbance calls.

Blind Packer EDINBURG, Tex. (UP) Packing tomatoes is a job that requires speed and deft fingers, That's what makes Howard Cole an unusual tomato packer. He is blind. Cole lost his sight to an eye infection following service in World War II. He has no trouble maintaining his quota of 30 boxes of tomatoes an hour.

FORT WORTH (UP) persons were stricken with ptomaine poisoning yesterday after attending a family reunion in Fort Worth's Forest Park. A baked ham served to the picnickers was blamed. Mexia Guard Unit Cited For Training in Field Problems Company oE the Texas National Guard was cited by Regimental Commander Colonel Dave Frazier for being the best train- in his regimcotjiur- inb maneuvers held during the past two weeks at Fort Hood They, received an excellent rating of 74.26 and ranked 15th out of 60 units rated. Sergeant Bobb.y Cippele was given a commendation from.Gen- eral Carl Phinney for his superior instruction in platoon. attack.

Sergeant Weldon Fleming also received a special commendation from General Phinney 'fpr his outstanding work in recruiting. This is the first year that, the Mexia Company has participated in regimental field problems and Captain John E. Lee said today that they did a fine job in repelling the aggressive forces; The men returned to Mexia in special buses, arriving at Sunday morning. Outside of a few cases of poison ivy no accidents occurred during the two week encampment. Gen.

Phinney announced to the company that they hope to' get started on the new armory for Mexia during thq next fiscal ypar which ends June 30, 1957. Steel Strike Cuts Into Operations Of Other Industries PITTSBURGH (UP) steel strike, in its second day, cut into the operations of. other major industries today. Railroads and river and lake boat shippers were the first to be hurt as the strike slashed freight shipments. Their operations were curtailed and some began layoffs, There was no indication when (lie United Stcelworkcrs Union and the basic steel producers would resume contract negotiations which were broken off Saturday night in New York.

The government moved to try to head off a long walkout. Federal mediation chief Joseph F. Finnegan talked by telephone from Washington with spokesmen on both sides. The strike has idled workers. McDonald warned Sunday that the shutdown may be "long" unless the industry comes up with a better offer than the one on which it now stands.

128 Persons Die As Two Planes Crash GRAND CANYON VILLAGE, Ariz. (UP) The first five bodies of the 128 victims of the world's worst commercial aviation disaster were helicoptered out of Grand Canyon today from the scene of Saturday's two-plane crash. A helicopter shuttle-service began operating to lift the charred remains from the G.000-foot 7 deep gorge to the rim of the canyon where they were to be transported in plastic bags to the temporary morgue at the national guard armory 80 miles away in Flagstaff, Ariz. All of the bodies being recovered today will be from the Trans- World Airlines super consteJla- tion, which carried 70 persons when it apparently collided at high altitude with a United Air Lines DC-7 and plummeted side by side with it to crash only a mile apjirt. Government officials launched an investigation into the crash to determine for sure whether the two planes collided in mid-air in the nation's first collision of two airliners and then dropped into gash in the Painted Desert.

They said there was only a "one-in-ten-million" chance that the two super-airliners met with separate mishaps at. the same instant and fell into the gorge, None Had Chance Investigators, piecing together all the information available, theorized that the TWA plane, climbing to get out of a storm, flew right into the belly of the UAL plane and plunged almost straight down and burned. None of the 128 persons in either- plane had a chance. Hal Wood, United Press staff correspondent who flew over the scene Sunday, said "I flew down to within a few feet of the place where the two planes crashed and the biggest piece of wreckage I saw was a wheel." He said the tricky air currents "tossed our little Cessna 100 plane around like a straw in tornado." The wreckage of ttiA- TWA plane was spotted Saturday after anxious daylong search and the shattered the UAL jlane were sighted Sunday rnom- ng, only about a milqf'dqwn the colorful canyon' carved by the ushing Colorado River. No Sign of Life There was no sign of life around wreckage and a helicopter I crew which landed in, the gorge atcr Sunday confirmed 1 that all 128 had died instantly.

Officials hoped that treacherous winds would claim no more lives the gorge by slamming helicopters against granite cliffs. helicopter group, accord- ng to plans set up by Capt. Byrd Ryland, commanding the rescue team, will either ferry the bodies to the top of the rim for transfer other planes or direct to the temporary morgue set up in the national guard armory ih Flagstaff, Ariz. Ryland said it was 'unlikely" any bodies from the UAL jiane would be recovered. The TWA wreckage is scattered along au accessible ledge on Clmar Butte 500 feet above the Colorado River, a raging torrent at that point.

But the UAL wreckage is 4,500 feet up virtually sheer Temple Butte and only "on an outside chance" could it be reached even by expert mountaineers. Witnesses who probed the scene of the TWA ruins said it was only aarely possible bodies could be identified by fingerprints. All are badly charred. LETTER AT LAST REACHES ITS MARK KARACHI, Pakistan (UP) A letter addressed to the "intelligent officer, government of Pakistan" wound up in the office of the cabinet secretarial. It was returned to the pusl- offict wilh the notation "the government of Pakistan does have an intelligent officer." The director of intelligence finally gut his letter.

LOCAL MAN TO APPEAR ON NATIONAL TV SHOW Michael (Sonny) Brown, son of the late Dr. M. M. Brown, will appear on the program "Tonight" July 2 and 3. He will co-star with Jack Pharr in the absence of Steve Allen.

BAPTIST BROTHERHOOD WILL MEET TONIGHT The Brotherhood of the First Baptist Church of Mexia will meet in the church parlor tonight at 7:30. A talk on Christian Witnessing will be given by Rev. W. B. Hammond, chaplain at the Mexia State School and Home.

Dr. Bill Pittman, program chairman, will preside in the absence of the president, Leonard Pelton, who will be out of town. Hi Maopr by Olin The feller there ain't ivo, fool like 9 old fool didn't live to 4 i young foolt. i.