Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 32

v-m? iJWfcr -x-" a iW' "Trir 'ar Jttar aaw Mi mMb 'f mgewhm no MJMP Navy Protests Delay COMPLETE NEWS OF SOUTH TEXAS Corpus Chrtsti Caller Moore Base Reopening CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS THURSDAY MORNING MAR 12 1953 Thcv contend tha military planes would interfers with civilian air commerce Bv TEX EASLEY WASHINGTON March 11 (AP) rianw to turn Moora Field at Mission Texas Into a jet lighter plane training base have run into two snags First the project Is one of scores which have been frozen while the Defense Department re' to go to unused government-owned space at Kerrville A new hospital is expected to be completed In June in San Antonio and money has just been appropriated by the state for a new hospital in the Rio Grande Valley in Harlingen not far from Mission Although the Air Force said it DEATHS 79th Officials Have No Ideas Mrs Mabel Boland views its military construction had thoroughly studied all the piogram with an eye for economy ajr apace problems involved be-Second the Navy has protested fnre deciding to reactivate Moore thin the project would create a Reid naval officials disagreed hazardous overlapping with jet committee planes flying from both Moore Word has been received hero of the death March 3 of Mrs Mabel Boland former Corpus Chrtsti resident in Campbell Texas She wa the wife of the late au- Questions directed to naval thoritiee on the matter arc di-1 Boland former rural mail earlier Field and the Kingsville naval air auxiliary station tin Miles AMrt On Redistricting reeled to the Air Coordinating for the Bunehine Community Funeral eervlces were held March in Campbell with the Committee an agency comprised The two points are about 120 an line miles apart With jet representative of the Army plane travelling to 600 mile Ar Force Coast Guard Kw Robert Ridley of Dallas of- an hour or faster the situation0'1 Aeronautics Board and other would he somewhat different than lfuyernniental units concerned Suruvors include two daughters in World War II when propeller Wlt1 vlallon problems Mrs Huffard of San Ber-Calif and Mrs Zclma KinUmTln ri ferried to the technical division nldii' 'i the Air Coordinating Committee i JJ- If Air Force and Navy technicians nd Rn1 can't work out a solution the problem will go to the full coordinating committee and from there if the committee can't CallerTImea News Service There is no indication that the Senate has even considered the subject of legislative redistrictlng which Gov Allan Shivers had labeled a "must' Sea John Bell of Cuero a member of the Senate committee on redistricting said Monday that the committee hadn't even had a meeting yet Tha Senate observers say may wait until they get a House bill on the subject and then try to iron out any differences through conference committees Yet the subject of judicial re-districting is generally regarded as a hot by many attorneys throughout the state Some local observers aN predicting that nothing will be accomplished or that the 79th District will remain as it is to the President for deci- in1 raft operated from both places Congress last year appropriated 10309000 for reactivation of Moore Field Tentative plans railed for construction to begin in May with work to include new runway hangars shops an administration building and housing The bsse would be operated under the Air Training Command Also complicating the picture Is the fact that some of the existing World War structures at Moore have been occupied by Weaver Baker Memorial Hospital a state-operated institution for tubercular patients Transfer Arranged The Air Force decided to re- sgree ion Another Texas Air Fores project has been through ths same procedure and is now at the White House for settlement That concern us of Galveston Municipal Air Center for a jet tactical operation base Although reopening of the field used an Army Air Corps cen- By JAMES ROWE Oiller-Tlnies Staff Writer ALICE Diet Judge Wood-row Laughlin end Dlst Atty Raeburn Norris said Wednesday 'that they did not have any ideas on the subject of redislrtcting the 79th Judicial District haven't given It any Laughlin said been too have any preferences" Norris said Their statements came in the wake of an announcement In Austin that Rep Joe Kilgore of McAllen had introduced a state-wide legislative redistrictlng bill Under provisions of the bill Duval County would be removed from the 79th District and placed in the 111th District with Webb County The 79th District would then consist of Jim Wells Brooks and Starr Counties a 130-mil extending from the Nueces to the Rio Grande Duval Recommendations Kilgore's bill follows recommendations of the State Bar Association on redistrictlng of the state's judicial districts Judge Howard Green of 21th District Court and Judge Blalock of 93rd District Court recommended the elimination of Duval from the four-county district Both Judge Wright 'Of 49th District Court and Judge Ezequlel Salinas of 311th activste Moore after plane had 'ter in 'World War II has been Mrs Millicent Catherine Stalcup 80 died Tuesday at her home In Mineral Wells Burial will be here Thursday at 4 pm Graveside services will he conducted by the Rev Mason pastor of the First Methodist Church at Sinton Cemetery Star-buck Funeral Home is in chargs of local arrangements Funeral services were held Wednesday at lOam In Mineral Wells Mrs Stalcup a former resident of Sinton was the mother of Clyde and Louis Stalcup who live here Her huAwnd 8talcup was a former 'San Patricio County treasurer Pallbearers will he Ray Franklin Frank Markussen Charles Hilton Loy Sima Jim thews and Harlan Russell Albert Norris teen arranged to transfer the 700 or more patients there elsewhere Their removal has not yet taken place although some are expected CURTAIN GOES UP The curtain goes up Thursday night on the annual Sinton Kiwanis Club Cotton Blossom Minstrel in the high school auditorium The endorsed by leading civil groups and city and county authorities the plan has been opposed by some private flying spokesmen Alice Court Orders Pay For Bailiff above picture of the minstrel cast was taken at Tuesday night's rehearsal Cotton Blossom Minstrel To Open Today in Sinton Congressional Rcdistricting Caller-Times News Service ALICE Octavio Sanchez bailiff appointed to work with the retiring grand jury was ordered paid $25 for five daya work at a meet- Bill Is Aired ing of the commissioners court Dlatrlct Court both of Laredo had Albert Gordon Norris 76 of 809 Morgan died in a local hospital yesterday at 4:30 Born in Illinois he spent most of his life in Missouri where he received his higher education and fnllcr-Timr News Service SINTON The 1983 presentations of the Sinton Kiwanis Cotton Blossom Minstrel are scheduled at 8 Thursday and Friday on was later supervisor of state the stage of the Sinton High agreed to the Inclusion of Duval in the 111th District according to the recommendation made by Judge Green and Judge Blalock Retiring Judge Sam Reams of 79th District Court did not announce his preference in the matter While Judge Laughlin said Wednesday that he did not have any ideas on the subject of redistrictlng he had expressed earlier objection Wednesday morning (Buster) Perkins opposed paying Sanchez former court Inlet prefer on the grounds that the grand jury did not use him and did not want to use him He wee outvoted by Bob Almond commissioner of Precinct 2 Kirchoff commissioner of Precinct 2 and (Bill) Laughlin commissioner of Precinct 4 The grand Jury whose term expired Feb 28 said in a letter to to Hayes the high school quartet Marilyn Moore George Anna Wells Jean White Rene Willoughby Janet Myrick Barbara Jailor Jeannine Gerdes Josie Fenner Rubbles Mayer Mary Ann Felsing Patricia Russell Gladys Radke Billy Jean Gilcreose Jeannette Friske Merlene Hoseamp and Caroline Beyer all of Sinton and Mack Ivie of Odem All members of the Kiwanis Club are assigned to various feature and details of the to the inclusion of Starr County was Hardship waa to be a friend of Geopge Parr This letter complained that Dist Judge School auditorium Proceeds from the minstrel will go into the Kiwanis Club's community service fund Burl Brittain past president of the dub is director of the show (Harrell) Citrlee another former president is interlocutor The end men are Burch Bill Cavltt Bill Henry Raymond Biggs Leo Owen Nicholson and Thomas Specialty acta will feature Art Nelson and Bob Renfro of Refugio Jo Ann Scnles Jodie (Rattler) Howington Mrs Chill Bigham Sonny Van Ness Jackie Simmons Peter John Byrd the Sinton Novelty Bond Louis Hunt Wood-row Laughlin had placed "atiimb- AUSTIN March 11 (AP)-Rep Dewey Jr Bryan filed a bill today revamping the present 21 congressional districts It was ths fourth congressional redlstrirting measure introduced this year The others are in House subcommittees The bill gives Texas' 22nd congressman to a Harris -Galveston County district For Harris County one district would be composed of ail that part north of ff Highway 90 ana ail the City of Houston The rest would be tied In with Galveston County Counties of the major citiei Tarrant Dallas Bexar Harris and Harris-Galveston are single districts now Dewey said be arranged it so that no two Incumbent congress men are placed in the same district and no congressman loses a majority of his present counties According to population figures the smallest district in hla bill would he No 13 around Wichita Falls The largest in population outside the big city dlstijcts would be No 15 in the Lower Rio Grande Valley "It la easier to justify Brooke Jim Wells and Duval than it is ling in the way of an In- schools school principal and teach In 1918 Norris moved to Edln-I burg and went into the orchard 1 business Ha lived there eight years Norris earns to Corpus Christi In 1936 and entered construction work A lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church Norris was an elder and a deacon at the First Presbyterian Church here He was a member of the masonic lodge in Bedalla Mo and served overseas during World War I as a secretary Survivors include his wife Mrs Gail Norris of Corpus Christi one son Lt Col Hugh Norris Army in Alabama and one grandson Funeral arrangements are to be announced by Cage-Mills Funeral Home Mrs Utaine Johnston War Unlikely Kingsville CofC Told vestigation of the Sept I murder of Jacob 8 Floyd Jr Sanchez commenting on his reported friendship with Parr had this to My: 1 guess I a very good he had me fired as court Sanchez is also serving os bailiff tor the new grand Jury which was empaneled March 5 HU appointment was recommended by Diet Raeburn Norris end he was sworn in for both grand Juries by Judge Laughlin Brooke Jim Welle and Judge Laughlin said earlier this rear adding that the distance letween the county seats particularly from Alice to Rio Grande City worked a hardship on botl the district judge and the district attorney Leaders of the Freedom Party of Duval County havo expressed vigorous opposition to being Included in the Laredo district The Freedom Party polled 1200 votes in the July 1952 primary with a complete slate of candidates opposed to those supported by George Parr the county's political boss Parr supported Laugh-and the Freedom Party sup- Lawyer Seeks To Reunite Mother Child HISTORIAN SPEAKS IIERE-Hobart Huson Refugio attorney writer and historian yesterday talked at a meeting of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas at the home of Mrs George Weaver 1402 Brentwood He discussed his two-volume history of the Refugio area which will be published soon by the Guardsman Publishing Co Annexation Measure Signed Into Law Helicopter Brings Slightly Injured Man From Padre ported Reams "If we ran stay with Jim Wells Brooks Counties we have a City County Auto License Measure Filed AUSTIN March 11 (AP)-Cov Allan Shivers today signed into law a bill to permit cities In Tarrant El Paso and Harris Counties to annex territory without dist rub-Ing independent school district boundaries Mrs Utaine Mavis Johnston 42 a former resident of Corpus Christi was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday In Coolldge Arts Surviving are her husband Casey Johnston of gPoolldge her mother Mrs Mettle Hunt of Corpus Christi two sons Herbert Neff end Clarence Butchert both of Corpus Christi two brothers the Rev Hunt and the Rev Tollle Hunt both of Corpus Christi a sister Mn Ell Stand-ridge of Corpus Christi and granddaughter Burial will be in Corpus Christi Clifford Jackson Funeral Home la In charge of arrangements Ben Longoria 15 Indictments Returned at Alice By Grand Jury KINGSVILLE "We will not have war because the leaders of Russia realize that the war potential of the free world is very much greater than that of the totalitarian Harrison Wood of Dallas told members of the Kingsville chamber of commerce Tuesday night at their annual banquet Wood based his prediction on the five component of the balance of power which led the North Atlantic Treaty nations to form their organization their tremendous advantage in atomic weapons agriculture Industry oil and military population The speaker a former journalist and former correspondent personally acquainted with many world figures forecast that before the end of 1953 an organization similar to NATO would be formed of all the free nations He also predicted that the death of 8tailn has shortened the time until the Russian people will come into a world organization Incoming president of the chamber la Norman Hobrecht succeeding Charles Falto ni who has served 2 terms other officers are BcA Hope end A Schmidt let and 2nd vice presidents Bud Piper treasurer and Con' nell manager New directors are Becton Bolar A Brown Clement Poteet and Wells More than 225 attended the meeting held in the AAI Student Union ballroom Visitors were present from Sinton Alice Corpus Christi and the NAAS in one leader told a Caller he asked that hla name not be used "But we might as well move out of the county if they throw ue with Webb Different Opinions -A wide divergence of opinion exists on the subject Inquiries reveal 8ome are for of Duval others are for the creation dt a new 79th District con-14 sting only of Jim Wells and Brooks others for Jim Walla Brooks and DuvaT Provisions are made for later extension of the school districts by election called by the school hoard Sen Doyle W111U Ft Worth Mid the measure intended primarily to take care of an annexation situation in Tarrant Cbunty to prevent interference with some authorized but unissued school bonds AUSTIN March 11 (AP)-A measure to help county and city finances by letting them levy motor vehicle license fees was introduced in the House today It was a proposed constitutional amendment by Rep John Crosth-wait Dallas It would exempt motor vehicles from ad valorem taxes on property which some cities and counties levy ndw and permit the license fees Crosthwalt cited no figures Ths measure calls for further legislation setting the details in case it la approved Leroy Hoehne 28 of 5111 Curtis Clerk Drive escaped serious injury when he was caught in the draw works of a drilling rig on Padre Island yesterday morning Hoehne an employe of Brew-ster-Bartla Drilling Co of Houston said he waa working on the draw works when the drum clutch caught him and pulled him into the draw works He was reported to be in fair condition at Memorial Hospital last night The accident occurred at the rig which ie about 20 miles down ths island about 10:30 am yesterday Hoehne wee taken to Murdock Landing at the pass and met there by an ambulance from Cage-Mills and a Navy helicopter from NAS Hie helicopter took the injured man to the Naval Air Station and he was then moved to Memorial Henry Schafer and John Pope of Cage-Mills who mads the ambulance run said lt would have been a long hard ride back for Hoehne if the helicopter had not been there Shafer said tha beach was rough the tide was about half way in and that tha trip took 55 CROSSWORD PUZZLE Funeral services for Ben Hi Longoria 54 of 1805 Madero who died early yesterday in a local hospital will be in Juan Gonzalez Chapel at pm today Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery Burvlvurs include two daughters Mrs Estella Villegas and Mrs Celia Rodriguez of Corpus Christi and a brother Tiofilo Longoria of Chelton Wash Donnel Hill Caller-Times Nrws Service FALFURRIAS Mark Heath Falfurriaa attorney said Wednesday night that he would file a habeas corpus Thursday morning in an effort to reunite a mother and her one-year-old eon The mother la Mrs Estelle Cost-ley Crimea wife of the son of the sheriff Jesm Grimes In a court order signed by District Judge Woodrow Laughlin at noon Wednesday the mother was forbidden to see or go near her one-year-old son Jesse Grimes III The order was signed as a preliminary to a divorce suit filed by Jesaa Grimes II It alleged that Mrs Grimes is the proper person to have cuitody and possession of Jesse Grimes III minor mother is hysterical and under the care of a Heath said District Atty Raeburn Norris signed as attorney for tha husband He signed as a member of the law firm of Norris and Car rillo Carrillo is assistant district attorney "The site was given no notice in the matter" Heath said never known of anything like this before Usually the judge at least has a hearing before awarding the custody of a minor child How else is a judge supposed to know who is the proper custodian if ha hasn't heard any testimony?" Mrs Grimes is employed here as bookkeeper and secretary for Mercy Memorial Hospital A writ of habeas corpus will be filed and an Immediate hearing de manded Thursday morning Heath said Caller-Times News Service Fifteen indictments were returned Wednesday by a district court grand jury which began six-month term on March Alfonso Arrendodo Ramon Barrera Onofre Gonzales Ramon Tanguma Jr and Adan Castillo were each indicted on burglary and theft counts in connection with the Dec 28 1952 burglary of the Klatt Drop Store in Orange Grove Approximately $200 in merchandise was taken in the burglary Others indicted were Antonio Balboa Jr seduction Floyd Brad berry swindling by a $36476 worthless check given Bowman Chevrolet Co last Oct 13 Feliciano Garcia Jr and Tomas Medellin child desertion and Jose Cortez swindling by an $85 worthless check given Cldelia Gonzalez The grand jury returned one Indictment last Friday and seven additional indictments Monday 08 Bees TO Rotative 71 Symbol of eon 71 The Mrda ACROSS 1 Monk Political dictate 10 Projections 14 Ftonmne 15 Competent 74 Pnleeworthp quality 73 Private retreat pi 76 IS ImasinaU' Tteef 17 Reef 77 Requirements 47 Machine part 48 Laraeahrab 60 IndjciwttMl Grab 54 Pillar 55 Lattuee ptai 56 CoMolldata 97 Poem by Foe 56 Simple 13 Point of oom pass 63 Landmai 64 Coastal Fixes 67 Reins SS Humane 71 Indicntias House Kills Resolution Chastising Magazine AUSTIN March 11 The House today killed a resolution chastising a national magazine (Esquire) for an article criticising Texas The Senate had passed it yesterday but House memben said it was beneath the dignity of the leglslatun end would just give the magazine more publicity Funeral services for Donnel Hill 54 who died Tuesday afternoon at hie home 203 Carter will be at pm today in Cage-Mills Chapel The Rev Cheuncey Acrey pastor of Westminster Preibyterian Church will officiate end burial wlU be In Rose Hill Cemetery DOWN 1 Exploit 2 Plexus 3 Golf elnb 4 Affect with pain 5 Help Intent 7 Girdle 8 Rested 9 Buorceilos 10 Inclined Choppy 19 Fracas 13 Pilot 93 Manual art 21 Celia arch 'llectlve 96 Ohio Road Realignment 18 Burial etand 19 Marsh plant 90 Number 21 Frosm 93 Selie and hold (art 95 Turn to off ride 28 Always poetic 97 Educator 29 Rain 34 Frtnrii eals 35 Parched 35 Entanzle 38 Flower part 49 Vehicle 43 Unapokea 45 Period 46 Deride upon 49 Prima donna 50 PenU 51 Urampua 53 Trace outline of 55 Medical nicer 59 Pert of foot CO Collect Ion of data 51 HUthmt note 69 Snakeilke Ash 63 Beut of burdea Exlftmt Okayed in Kleberg Alice Rejects Gas Raise Bid Eight Missing Duke of Windsor Back Home To Sec His Ailing Mother 98 Intin 99 Flih 30 Pertalnlaf to smeth 31 Telsxnm 33 Encumber On Broken Ship 33 Easily 37 Dwell 39 Elflike 40 Bedouin 41 Shaded path turn SOUTHAMPTON England March 11 The Duke of Windsor returned to England tonight on a hurried visit to see hie ailing moth' er Queen Mary Greatly relieved that tha 85-year- Callrr-TImea News Service AUCE-Houston Natural Gas bid for reconsideration of 47 percent incream in Alice gas rates was rejected at a meeting of the city council Tuesday night At a meeting in January the company was granted a 13 percent rate Increase It appealed to the Texas Railroad Commission end then discovered that lt had not asked for a rehearing by the council a procedural step required before the commission can act in the matter Annexing Control Bill Cels Senate Committee Okay KINGSVILLE (Sp)- The realignment of the right-of-way for a county road near Loyola Beach has been voted by the Kleberg County Commissioners Court The new roadway on donated right-of-way property will skirt a proposed turning basin at ths mouttf of a creek which will be used for the loading of barges which take supplies to ol' "'ing and exploration crews The commissioners authorized County Attorney Royco Johnston to attend the Attorney General's Law Enforcement conference in Austin late this month Other actions included the buying if a maintainer with high lift attachment buying a car for precinct No and approving the bond of the county depository NEW YORK March 11 A dramatic search was on today for seven men and the wife stranded old Queen ie reported recovering in wild North Atlantic seas on the bow of a broken oil he toto newsmen were very 4 worried weex tanker The duke arrived on the liner Twenty-eight crewmen of the Liberian tanker Angy snatched from the stem after a night of terror were 1000 miles east of New York Explorer Scouts Plan Kingsville NAAS Tour men were trapped on the how as it vanished into tha storm against the storm At daybreak the American freighter was able to rescue the men on tha stem Queen Elizabeth with his sister the Princess Royal Mary who cut short a tour to tha West Indies when the aged Queen was stricken with a stomach ailment The duke said ha didn't know how long ha will stay in Britain indicating it depend on hie moth-er'e condition He said he would go to Parti next week on business however and return to England The duke said ha has not talked with Queen Mary on the telephone explaining: "My mother has never spoken on the telephone in her life It ie one of those strange things She is sort at scared id it I don't know why" SHIP NEWS KINGSVILLE Some 50 Ex plnrer Scouts from Bishop and Kingsville will tour the Navel Auxiliary Air Station here on Saturday seeking Navel teamwork action The older Scouts will Britain Called Leader In Peaceful Atom Work roRrti rtiRifm Arrival Knu Wltmingtnn I Burrow from Nw York IB AUSTIN March 11 (AP)-The Senate's 8tate Affairs Committee today recommended passage for the second city annexation control bill this session Hie measure by Sen Jimmy Phillips Anglrton would limit annexations to territory intended to be used strictly for town purposes and would -require extenslnt of utilities to the territory within two years The action waa taken over the protests of city spokesmen who complained the bill would strangle city growth Phillips argued his hill was aimed at halting land grabbing by cities solely for purposes of collecting additional taxes Earlier the committee approved a bill by Sen Johnnie Rogers Austin setting up detailed annexation standards City spokesmen had also opposed that measure The committee also sent to the Senate today with approval a bill to recodify laws relating to funeral directing and embalming and broadening the power of tha State Board of Embalming Prlmror Hn nncH aboard am and remain until 4 pm eating noon chow at the regular men haiL A number of events have been for the tour "The bow ie not in ra dined the rescue ship the 6492-ton American freighter Claiborne The Claiborne plowed on toward Cherbourg France with the survivors while the Coast Guard took over the hunt for the Imperiled eight who were in the how when the 9937-ton Angy split in half three days ago Three Coast Guard cutters and a plane were thrown into the search racing against time and the relentless sea in hope the how till was afloat with its human cargo Rescued crew members said a fire at undetermined origin sparked racking explosions that tore the Angy in two behind the bridge The officers quarters were in the bow while the crewi was in the stein The captain his wife his males bis radio operator and Ure ee trm no poc Cltrfcr' Wharf Kw Wiinitnctoa OnMrtirN Luuiauuta Sub Iub Oil to Marcus Rook rga BO 1MB 1801 CWnmrrdat Fofr tmipum Tmni port to Pvtrny f'harlotto XsVkM Lvkea Bros to Oilua ton Ship Workers Strike Beaten ADELAIDE Australia March 11 Britain leads the world in the development of atomic energy for peacetime purposes Sir Claude Gibb an official of the British Ministry of Supply said here today He said he believed it possible now to turn out atomic power for industrial use but that this form of energy could not compete in cost with power produced from coal I BROWNSVILLE (Mtxlcaa) Burns Gets First Okav WASHINGTON March 11 (AP) The Senate Banking Committee today voted without dissent to confirm Arthur Bums Columbia University professor and middle-of-the-road economist as President top economic adviser Ths recommendation now goes to the Senate floor Benton GLASGOW Scotland March 11 Fifteen thousand ship worker stayed away from their jabs in 10 Clydebank dockyards today in an unauthorized strike over a wage Arrival XMlatnaBca PpMpx la Port Jnhua 111 bih Mar Adriatic Jtoafmi Kata manna DrnarlarM Boo ip i JkA MSI an A mm A mmmt A etaA tans to oneOk AataAAn.