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The Amarillo Globe-Times from Amarillo, Texas • Page 28

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JlMARlLLO.MEXAff TWENTY-N1W More Receiving Security Aid Than Pensions AUSTIN (UP)-- This year, tor the first time, Texans receiving social security payments outnumbered old age pensioners, the Department ot Public Welfare reported Tuesday. The department said in an annual report lo Gov. Price Daniel that as of Jan. 1, there were 14,785 more 'Texans receiving social security than old age assistance payments. Social security payments to 240,323 persons on that date totaled $11,916,615, while old age assistance payments to 225,538 persons totaled $10,087,233.

The report pointed out that federal social security payments included women 62 and over as a result of a congressional act las year. Such payments to men in elude only those aged 65 or over The number ot Texans receiv ing social security has riser sharply in the past eight years the report said. On' Jan. 1, 1949, only persons in Texas received socia security payments, against 211,321 on old age assistance rolls. Thus the number of aged persons receiving social security rose 205, 496 over the eight-year perkx while the number receiving ol age assistance gained only 14,217 Old.

age assistance payments during the fiscal year which end cd last Aug. 31 rose $8,382,868 tc a total of $119,793,513. The average monthly payment was $44.63 Aid to needy blind recipients totaled $3,806,835 over the year an increase of $256,168 over the previous year. In September monthly payments, averagec $49.05 to 6,485 needy blind per sons. Payments of aid to dependeni children rose to during the fiscal year, an increase $3,544,433 over the previous year As of Sept.

1 payments were made to 23,832 families represent Wind- dines Damage Six Cotton Gins, Warehouse averaged month. $70.33 per family per 140 Families Are Adopted One hundred and forty under privileged families in Amarillo had been adopted for Christmas at noon today In the Holiday Clearing. Bureau office. "We still have 82 more families who need help during the holidays, says Mrs. Franklin P.

Ballard, chairman of the bureau this year. Earlier this year, 1 lists of families who need food, clothing or other gifts were compiled and sent to the Holiday Clearing Bureau, located in the Unitec fund Office, 216 W. 7th. "This way there is no duplication of Christmas giving," says Mrs. Ballard.

"We have each name filed and assign the families to different clubs or organizations ourselves, so no family will be forgotten, while another gets too much." Amarillo residents, organizations, or businesses, who want to help a less fortunate family for Christmas are asked to call the bureau as soon as possible. Norman Spurlin Taken by Death Norman Spurlin. -H, of Dumas, died at a.m. today in Northwest Texas Hospital. He was an employe of a carbon black plant at Cactus.

Mr. Spurlin was born Dec. 6, 1913, in Andalusia, and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dumas. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Verma Spurlin; a son, David; a daughter, Sandra; a brother, Foy Spurlin of Opp, a sister, Mrs.

Bcnton Lord. Miami, Fla, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Q.

Spurlin of Andalusia. Arrangements for funeral services will be announced by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of Dumas. New Scout District Plans Organization The West Amarillo Boy Scout district will hold an organizational meeting to elect officers, Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Polk Street Methodist Church. J.

M. Simpson uill serve ss temporary chairman at the meeting. Nominating committee members will be Dr. Hugh Sticksel, chairman, W. 13.

Weatherred, Roy Stockton and Robert Grebe. All institutional representatives of units west of Washington Avenue will be eligible to vote for a new district chairman, vfce chairman, district commissioner and members at large. CAPERING CAMXES HOPEWELL, Va. Iffl--Hope- well's dog pound is having a lot of doggone trouble. Seven time's the dogs have escaped through holes in the fence.

Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Mort Comfort PA8TEETH, tlMline' powder, holds non firmly. To nt nd talk In mort comfort, Juit iprlnkle FAS- HE't'H on your pUtftft. No irunimy. pwtr or fMllni. OhKki (itintun bntth).

On nanCTB couatw. Cold, high winds fanned flames from burning burrs which swept through at least six cotton gins and a warehouse In the Panhandle and South Plains Tuesday and Tuesday night, causing loss of over 100 bales of cotton and an estimated 80 or 90 trailers, Gusts of wind up to 62 miles per hour Tuesday night stirred burr pit fires into leaping flames which consumed Graham Holmes Gin warehouse at Wolfforth, 10 miles south of Lubbock. More than 100 hales of stored cotton were destroyed, along with 55 trailers and a truck, all loaded with unginned cotlon. At the Farmers Gin in Olton, a seed house containing 25 tons of cotton seed was destroyed during the night, and about 25 or 30 loaded trailers and about 15 bales of cotton were damaged. Damage estimated at well over $5,000 occurred Tuesday morning in Silvprton and Lakcview, when winds between 40 and 50 m.p.h.

swept out of the northeast and blew burning burrs out of the pits and into the yards. J. B. Skinner, manager of the Paymaster Gin in Lakevicw, said three or four trailers and 17 bales of cotton burned at the gin in a fire which began about 11 a.m., when the wind shifted strongly from the northwest to northeast. Volunteer fire fighters from Memphis helped fight fires at Lakeview for almost three, hours before getting them under control.

Skinner said. Cotton remnants still were burning at 2:30 p.m. Burning burrs from pits at the Davis Gin in Silverton ignited fires in 17 hales of cotlon and six or seven trailers before the Sil- Ike Prepares For NATO Trip By MERRIMA NSMITH WASHINGTON (UP)-- President Eisenhower waded today into preparations for next week's heads-of-state Paris parley that has been suddenly invigorated by his ability to attend. relief. Reaction also was favorable from two Congressional delegates to the NATO parliamentary conference.

Thomas H. Kuchel (R- Calif.) said "the President is a vcrton volunteer fire department could control the blaze. Glen McWilliams, manager of the Davis C.in, said the gin was closed at 8 a.m. Tuesday when the winds began to gain strength, but smoldering burrs blew Into the yard 50 to 60 trailers with almost 100 bales of unginned cotton were parked. The first 'ire in Silverton broke out at 10 a.m., but was brought under control before flames again took hold about noon.

In addition to the 17 bales lost at Lakevicw, 10 or 11 remnants of bales were burned along with five other trailers that were turned over to save their running gears. Other destruction was reported at Jenkins Gin and the College Avenue Co-op Gin near Lubbock and the Wicnke Gin at Petersburg. Mrs. Selvidge Dies in Arkansas Mrs. G.

D. Selvidge, of Mena, mother of three Amarillo residents, died Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in a Mena hospital. She had been under treatment for several weeks for a heart condition. Mrs.

Selvidge, 76, formerly lived in Happy. The family moved to Mena in 1925. Surviving, besides the husband, Two Killed in Overpass Crash 'Moby, Dec. 11 an A three-ear collision on an overpass killed two persons today and injured three seriously. The crash occurred on r.S.

ISO Daniel today signed into law leg- on a-Santa Fe overpass between 'Anil-Troop' Bill Signed AUSTIN (UP)-- Gov. Price guflrd rail. It was hit' by ji clfr driven by Mrs, Karncst coming from the oppotfte direction. The impact drove Flowers' car Into one occupied by Ted. Rea of Fort Worth.

Rea was not injured. fgl. Flowers was en route El Paso to New York for assignment overseas. MrCauley and Sylvester about 5 islation allowing any public school in Texas to be closed In the face of threatened occupation of mill- Killed were Mrs. Karnest, tary fores.

5S. Snyder. and Mrs. Klvira dene lie also signed two other major.Flowers, 30, wife of a Gainesville, measures: A bill aimed at requir- soldier, ing the National Assn. for Injured critically were Sgt.

l.C. Advancement of Colored People Arthur Flowers. 29, hus- divulge its membership on band of one of the dead women, order of a county judge, and a and their son, Anthony, 27 months, second creating a $50.000 fund forj Also injured was Earnest's I the attorney general to defend'son, Elvis Gale Earnest, 20. Her local school boards named in in- granddaughter, Fleita Faye Green- is auillL.y lu ULICIIU. smu uii; icoiuciiL 13 a I i i fru The decision of the 67-year-old symbol of mankind's desire fOT I aTM eight children.

They are Mrs. President to go despite a His attendance. as-j H. Harrison, Mrs. Woodfin stroke 16 days ago sparked new hopes at home and abroad that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit conference will succeed in producing new unity and an answer to Russia's 1 But sure constructive a i in'Camp and Sam Selvidge, of Am- missile-scientific threat.

The President, given a medical go-ahead Tuesday to make the trip, scheduled a morning conference with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. They were expected to discuss U.S. proposals to be strengthening NATO's defenses." Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) said "I hope that he (Eisenhow- will conserve his strength. his presence there will be er) presented at the meeting.

Eisenhower and Dulles alsoi- were confronted today with an-! Presldent ls still suffering from very important." White House Physician Gen. Howard McC. Snyder and Maj. John Eisenhower, the President's son, will accompany him. Eisenhower will stay at the American embassy.

The White House medical announcement Tuesday indicated the swering a 15-page note from Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin proposing a new round of high level East-West talks on acute world problems. U.S. officials la- belled it a strategically-timed propaganda designed to discourage NATO allies from tak ng any strong new defensive measur.es. Contents of the note were expected to be made public Thursday.

Eisenhower flies to Paris Friday. Before he goes the Presi. dent may have his answer ready for Bulganin. The team of six doctors prti- nounced the President in "excellent" physical condition in a White House announcement late Tues day. The announcement said he was sufficiently recovered from the Nov.

25 cecebral attack to go to Paris. Western European leaders acted to the news with a sigh Gifts Distributed By Toys for Tots Approximately 700 toys were handed out Tuesday to underprivileged families at the Toys for Tots Shop, 316 Polk. The little toy shop will be open Monday through Saturday from 9 until 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 until 3:30 p.m. except on Saturday.

For working parents, the shop ill be kept open late on Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. next week. Two gifts apiece for each child may he secured at the shop, manned by volunteers from the Salvation Army. The shop is a joint project of the Amarillo Marine Reserve, which collected the toys, city 'iremen, who repaired them, and City Park and Recreation Department, which is distributing to needy families. Advertisement CITATION BY' PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF LILLIE MAY SCOTT, Deceased.

No. 6131, County Court Potter County, Texas. CORNELIA E. ALLISON. Administratrix there- if, filed in (he County Court of 'otter Couny, Texas, on the 9th day of December, A.D.

1957, her inal Account of the condition of lie Estate of said LILLIE MAY SCOTT together with an Applica- ion to he discharged from said idministratrix and from adminis- rntlon of said estate. Said Final Account and Application will be heard and anted on iy said Court on the first Monday next after the expiration of en days from date of Posting or Publishing this citation, the same eing the 23rd day of December, :957, at the Courthouse thereof in Amarillo. Texas, at which time and place all persons interested the Account for Final Settle- men of said Estate required O' appear by filing a written and contest said account and application, they so. The officer executing this writ promptly serve the same according to requirements of aw, the mandates hereof, nd make due return as the law GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID COURT at office in Amarillo, Texas, the 9th day of DC- A.D. 1957.

LOREN JONES SEAL) Clerk of the County Court, Potter County, By JUNE RAHLKE Wty a slight speech difficulty. But the statement said it has "continued to improve and in ordinary conversation was almost impossible to detect" except by trained observers." arillo; Mrs. J. J. Michael, St.

Louis, and Mrs. Leo Bloomer, Mrs. W. H. Hartman and Guy Selvidge, of Mena.

Mrs. Claude King and Mrs. Jerry Farr, of Canyon, and Mrs. Mel Wilson, Roswell, are sisters, and Sam Pugh, Fort Worth, is a brother. Arrangements for funeral services for Mrs.

Selvidge had not been announced at noon today. SHOTS WOUND ISRAELI JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector An army spokesman said an Israeli worker was wounded today when Jordanians opened fire at field laborers near Yarhiv, a settlement bordering the central sector of the armistice line. tegration suits. I field, 10, was not harmed. All three bills were enacted at Highway patrolmen the recent second special session that Flowers' called by the governor.

Ule ovel pass Daniel announced signing at the' same time todny of 22 other measures, most of them local bills. The "anti-troop" 'bill was personally drafted by the governor and prompted the call of the second special session. It was designed, he said, to prevent troop occupation of a school, such as happened in Little Rock. Ark. The registration bill does not name the NAACP.

However, sponsors said that organization was the target of the measure. The bill allows any county judge to hail any organization into court and require that it disclose its membership if he finds it is hindering operation of a public school. The third bill provides the cash to do the job and authorizes the attorney general to assist, on request, any local district which has its segregation policies challenged in court. reported car had slopped on after striking the Advertisement Motorists from the Weit now are Invited to Poland freely, Warsaw reports. Advertisement ASIAN FLU Misery With BEST, SAFEST, FASTEST Ftvtr-Rcduclng Htlp Money Can Buy At Jirit lymptoms of Asian Flu, call your doctor and follow his idvlce.

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