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'PAGE TWO THE AiUAKIU.0 GLOBij.TIMKS.-AMAnn.IX). TEXA By THOMAS THOMPSON TVre two surprises'this list that had me gasping. Marshall Forhiby announcing for governor two years before election. Why, I'rlco Daniel luwi't even been inaugurated for his second term. Mr, I'oriii- by, now'chairman of the highway commission, knows his way politically much better 1 do, but I can't fathom his Nor.

can I understand (lie Strategy ofMhe Amarillo College hoard of trustees In for bond Issue. -Majority of the voters ajready have indicated they are strongly opposed fo any Increase, ui taxes. Sonle voters I have talked lo and who have written to me a bit fanatical.on the sub- Tiect, Personally, I'm not against expansion of Iho college "campus, Probably a new library should In) built and needed tu 'come up to state- requirements, but I doubt the necessity of the L' gymnasium nt this time and. 'certainly I question the liming. the appraisers for Inter- slate 40 will lake Into consideration X.recently completed study by.

a professor at Michigan State Michi- Uhiversily, The Michigan State man- was trying to determine tlie effect on property values of a freeway built near a residential area. -Among the findings reported in U.S. N'cws World Report were; Residences close to the freeway dropped in value' about 50 percent or more while those further aw ay increased in similar amount; the detrimental effects were limited to homes within 1,000 feel of expressways, com 'mercial property next to the route jumped as much as 100 per cent i value. I've hart a at the Nick Bargas file. .1 If-you remember, Nick ISar- gas charged with.the May 26 staying of Louis T.

Macias. Ij.ist month Ihe case was set for trial but was continued when the report of bribery attempt of a prospective juror came to light. Edwin Hale West was charged with attempting to bribe nan- aid on the list of ftpeclal venire. This complication must a terrific headache to (ho district attorney's office. What Is the relationship between Bargas and West? n.

West Is a parole from Kansas. IVIial was the nature of their acqiialn- 'lance'shlp before Bargas went lo under i'murdrr attempted to bribe juryman, was he doing it tor personal reason, for a friend of Bargas 1 What was his motive and' who stood to gain? It's strange anil serious when a Juror''In a capital case may have been offered bribe. Even the Innocent laymen wonder. -T-T Here's a noie from Win. Q.

Boyec, -the Jawyer. He' says, the explanation the defeat of the charter amendment and the reason for Ihe $1.30 limit in the first place-is found in the following quotation from'Tolbert's Texas column in the Dallas News of Nov. 11:" "We talked with one of those fellows from Scotlam who lo own the great Matador Ranch. He commuted be tween the British Isles and Mot ley County, -Texas, regularly This old boy said: 'West Texans are remarkably like Scots, excep that West Texans are closer with their money. Noiv Amarillo is (hi tight wads' capital of the world not Edinburgh, T--T New York Governor elect Nelson Rockerjiler would frighten some of the Jfeiv Dealers of the 3fc lo death with his slnniK election must have somo Jold-timc Republicans whirling in -their' graves.

He advocates government financed pub- housing he Is against rthe righl-to-work legislation oiif in front on civil 7rlghls he fnvors continuing 'rent controls In New York and jls opposed to any fore Increase York's deficit ridden know how he Islands on the Supreme obviously he Is not a clefrac- of Supreme Court Justice Warren or Justice William T--T Many Amarillo people are keen Jy interested in the outcome Fort Worth's charter amendmen election proposes a 1 pe: cent income tax. Voting is taking place today and the outcome should be kiiown by bed time. If the proposal carries, ntayb our city dads should have a look into the plan. At least, it wouldn' have Ihe opposition of the Hca Estate Board. Bivins housewife, Mrs.

Hov a'rd Reid, 1607 Parker, is a grea fan. of A. Glovier Catlioy-Fullingini; Jlrs. i like many other housewives, sick and tired of these 56 and calls every lime there 1 small mechanical failure '-to a household appliance. "I find Mr.

Glovier very refreshing," Mrs. Reid said. "He -comes when he says ho will. He's "good-humored." She added thai his charges are not so exorbitant they make you want to rto i', with all of your appliances sUrt over again, if rill KS Al'C Press Mrcphoto inleiior oi the Port American Liquor Store at Wichita Falls, 'remained intacl alter a tornado VII' IIHl ltuck sweeping away the tool and Walls of the conciete 1 building. Damage was estimated at $50,000.

Teamsters- FROM PAGE Houston job. Shafer: That's 14 hundred. And, ah, let's see that was eO'do'liiirs'for the Austin job, Austin Fireproof. Shafer: Well, you made that 14 lundrcd in about three nionlhs, 'idn't 'you? On ens: yeah. Shafer: Besides what work j'oii lone on the side for me, for itrickland over yonder before you loose.

'Ranger Smilli testified the re- oi-dings were made Sept. 15, 955. -He did not say exactly vhere the conversations took ilace. In one of the records the man dentified as Shafer said.he-had lored some dynamite" in a house, he had rented while posing is an insurance 'salesman, and hat the landlord.had tried to buy ome insurance from him. "The son of a started wanting fo buy Insurance," the voice said In the transcript.

"Well, I said 'that's out of our department. We sell stock In insurance The recordings quoted Sliafer telling of bombings in Austin, transport of dynamite to Daingerfield, and elsewhere. One transcript of the voices is identifies, gave Onens: You: linoiv, ah, the night I Mowed lip. that fireproof for. you.

Shafter: Un-huh. Owens: ah, you know fater on you told me that there was a D-- night 'watchman over there. How'd you lind that out? Shafer: Through an old boy hat worked up there at a service lation that knew, that we had trading with, lived dow he street there. Owens: You know, It's a d-wonder that I didn't get my fool head shot off there. Shafer: Sure, son-of-a-b-- vas silting on the front porch.

Owens: You kn'pw, I've thought about In at and just'reached up lere and felt to see if my old Mney head was still here, boy. Have tlie Rangers been giving ou any more trouble? Owens had leslified' yesterday hat for a pries paid by Shafer. he had helped to the Austin, Fireproof building Another excerpt from. a recording, indicated a hassel over he price -for the dynamiting: It read: Owens: He. deal on thai gave me a Austin, you know lhat Austin Fireproof building we blowed up; yeah.

Owens: You know, that Austin fireproof building we blowed up in Austin? That son- of-a-b--, he gimme S30 ami ho give buddy Springer S50. How much did you p.iy him? -Shafer: 5200. Oivens: You paid him S200? Shafer: Sure did. Eddie gave to Bob or Pat one, I don'i know which one he give it to, bu 'hat's what I gave--5200. Owens: Well, did you give.it lo him the night you brought the dynamite-Shafer: N'aw, I sure didn't.

Oivens: To Austin? You didn'i give it lo him Ihen? Shafer: No, it was about three or four nights great deal of the transcript Afler a language, Unued: Owens: Where did you get tlif dynamite? Shafer: I think It came out bi Tennessee. Owens: Tennessee? Shafer: I think so. I believe that's where it come from. Ovens: Did Johnson bring i down to you? Shafet': No, one of tlie boys over at Tennessee brought it to me on that particular deal. Owens: He gave m- $50 anil lie gave fiiulily $30 nurt told me that you just gave him $130 In blow (he d-- place" up.

Shafer: $150,. no, sure wrong, Me and Bob and Tat and I'll face Pat any G-d-- time. That makes me so mad, I just'---- Shafer: I'll face the anil I've got proof as lo to how much it was because Eddie, I gave Ihe to Eddie and -Eddie brought, it down. I don't know whether gave If to Bob or'gave It lo Pat, they gave It to one or the other. I ilon't know which one he gave It to.

JU Owens: Well, the dynamite down that night, you and-Shafer: Me and Eddie. Oivens: You and Eddie Hass? Shafer: But "that "is the honest God truth on it, on the amount, arid I'll face' old Pat in it and ve'll bring Eddie in, because Eddie knows the amount that vas given on it. Owens: Did he give the money Eddie Hass or did yo'u give it Pat Davis? Shafer: Eillier lo Pal or Bob, don't know which one he gave to. anyway he was -comim; jack- through Austin and' he dropped it off.there in Austin. Owens: Uhh.

Shater: Ah, it was three or four nights later, I don't' know, two or three nlghis, might have been twu nights, I know, but anyway it wasn't that particular night because it was about six o'clock when Pat I'nlled I'll the ileyll'he did it. Oivens: Rut what made me uad was, I wouldn't have mindec so bad, h--, I would have gone up there and. set. the dynamic under (he building himself (in. audible)." Paul kamerick, 'assistant committee counsel, said information lurnished by Owens indicates tha IK death'of a Texas trucker near in 1953 may hav been the work of Teamsters goons Oivens swore-that a Teamster: official once told him'of a laboi someone threi a bottle of hifric acid into Ihe ca' of a driver ti it into an tan er- truck.

Kamerick said he 'thought tin driver was Billy Greenwood Beaumont, Tex. a Red Ball Truck Line driver, who died in the flaming wreckage of the collision. Roy Gilbert, head of'Southwest- ern-Motor Transport, of San Antonio, earlier fold -the committee about sabotage" and terror tactics against trucking company. Gilbert testified most of the violence against his firm stopped after he named a Teamsters boss that he was "going to get somebody" if anything happened to his son, who was one of his drivers. Gilbert said in September 19JI, Shafer demanded a labor contract without benefit of a plant election.

A year earlier, he said, his em- ployes had voted JT-4 against joining the union. Gilbert 'quoted Shafer as warning that "they conld.ma1ic.br break me" and as offering lo have a large amount of extra freight tonnage swung lo Gilbert's firm if Southwestern Motor would sign a contract. Gilbert said his refusal lo sign flame bombs were Dung at his trucks from ambush on the highways, his men were shot at by riflemen, or injured by stones cast from approaching cars. Owens testified he participated in many of the acts, of violence complained of by Gilbert. "Did Shafer ever talk to you about bombing or burning Gilbert property?" Kennedy asked.

"Oh, yes, sir. he did," Owens replied evenly. wanted me to wreck trucks, throw bombs and rocks at trucks, attach magnetic hand grenades to the sides of trucks. He also talked to me about getting som.c dynamite. He said he wanted it to blow up the South- Houston Baby Toll Reaches 24 HOUSTON' (AP)-The 11-mont'h death joll from infections causec slaphylococcus at crowded Jef crsoti Davis Hospital stands at 24.

Hospital Administrator A. Reaves confirmed yesterday tha 'our more babies have died at Hie -ity-Cpunty Hospital since July The disease first invaded Jeff Da is last December. But Reaves emphasised lhat hought tlie situation is under con rol. Ypii' said'infectipns currently are running about three per cent of (he birth It hi a high of 23 per cent last Febi'u ary, dropped to five, and rose to per cent in late July. Dr.

Yow, head of tlie hospital's slaphylococcal study gmup; attrib- uted.the midsummer-rise'to over crowding with 113 deliveries han died in one week. Houston now ha. plans to build a new charity, hos jilai and enlarge Hie old one. The'disease is rcsis'tant to won der dmgs and has plagued hospi throughout the united Stales Leprosy Mission Day Proclaimed (AP)-Gov. Price Dan iel today designated Nov.

30 American Leprosy Mission Day in called attention Thahksgiv ing offerings which will-be snon sored the same day in. Houstoi by churches, cily officials and thi Boarden Chapter of America: Leprosy Jlissions. The', straight connecting jhe up jer ami. lower called' the Narrow's western. Terminals." said he father iri-lnw 1 stole 32 'cases of djnatnit from a pipeline company's powde magazine near Odessa.

Owens' said Shafer paid him for the dynamite. Oivens said they intended bomb the Alamo Freight LineiTer Southwestern.Lines Te minal and the I-eo-Way Freigh Terminal. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 gc'd buildings' In- the business Istrlct of Elkartcr and more than 2 farms in the Grinncll and 01- a iverc no ncw'n fatalities and only four per- ons- with nilnoY injuries. Hopes laded in Arizona for (ho of-three Boy Scouls missing ncc Saturday in' the, snow-coy- red and oilier cold Santa Rita lounlnlns near Tucson, More 150 posscmen hrough'dccp snow drifts Monday i search of Mike Early, '46; Mlch- cl Lanoue, and David Green- i'g, 12, all of Tucson. In oilier parts of Arizona about 0 hunters were trapped but bc- evcd safe in cabins near Flag faff.

Three others were snow- jound near Proscolt. A dozen and 'campers were locked In mountain snow near 'ucson. Heavy rains fell ahead of the front. Small creeks in south, ast Iowa Hooded after rains of as lucli as five inches fell. Rains also posed threats of mi- or overflows in' parts of eastern Kansas and Missouri.

Nearly a core at deer hunters barely escaped with their lives afler' 11 nches of rain fell in an hour ncai Freemont, HO miles southeast of St. Louis. Damage estimated I the mll- ions of dollars resulted from tor- radocs and hurricane-force winds northern -Texas. The damage extended from Gainesville west to Vichita. Fails and north to the Ok ahoma border.

'Other tomadic winds' struck ru ral.areas in Kansas near Ai-kan sas -Ottawa and leaven vorlh. A windstorm described by wit lesses as a lovnado, damagcc ionics, churches'and businesses it Bowlegs in central Oklahoma In all, about 11 persons were in iured in the A small twister damaged mos of the 60 lo 70 homes in Mounds vijlc, 80 miles south of Kan sas City. Soulh of there anothe leveled outbuildings and dlled cattle norm of Springfielt and a small twister damagec farm buildings east of Smilliville Mo. EMB.AKKASSIXfJ JIO.MENT NEW YORK (UPI)-Fire Com missioner Edward F. Jr.

accideniallj- turned in a false alarm'Monday in demonstrating to newsmen and pliotograpliei'' a'fluorescent paste that might ric tcr people from turning in false alarms. Three engine companies fire trucks, a rescue, squad two battalion cheifi and a deputy chief XEtV TRIAL SCHEDULED SAN ANTONIO (AP)-A nei' trwl for William Long, chargcc Ihe murder of elderly with Dog Leads Owner Into Money Trouble SAN ANTONIO (AP)-Grady'RI- ey, 50, was In trouble Today, be- ausc.lils dos chnsod a skunk iiito farmer's barnyard and due un 3,800. Olficers reported- yesterday rc- buried say ngs of KG, Van Ormy, farmer. Riley was charged with taking he money, He led police to a where likewise bulled $2,311 near San Antonio. asn't accounted i was'set'at' 52,500 Justice "of (ho Peace Albert 1'rcvind lio said Ilic told low his dog unearthed Ihe money.

(CONTINUED KROM PAGE 1) ildiiiK and abetting'in'the murder of Uobevf Jensen, 17, last Jan. 27 and if convicted faces Ihe same death penalty lhat was imposed on Starkweather, for the kiHing. He has appealed his to sUUc Supreme Court; The. 10 victims included 'Card's mother and stepfather, Mr. and Marlon Bartlelt, and then )aby daughter; August Meyer, 70, jacheloy.

farnioi" Jensen and his sweeten Carol King, Mr. ind Mrs. C. Laucr Ward and llroii Lillian Keiicl, all killed n( or.near Lincoln; and Meilo' Colli- sou, Great slain moments before Caiil and Stark weather were arrested near Doug las', Wyo. The bodies of Miss King and Miss Fend were mutilated.

Caril freely hpr re turn home. from school Jan. 21 and finding Starkweather, armed hiding behind Ihe She re called how he pushed and slapped her, bound her hands and fee logcther, and lurried her. so she could watch' television when he left her alone at night during 111 six days he forced her to re mail in the Bartlelt home with him. But" she could not remcmbei noticing that clothes lines and be clothing found" bound around the Baftlelts' bodies were missing from the living room and den the stmalid home.

She remembered when Starkweather took her from the Barllcil: borne Jan. 27. he stopped to have his auto serviced at a fill ing station. But her memory was hazv about whelher lie look his shotgun wiih him when he lei her alone in Ihe car. Caiil recalled seeing Stark weather, shoot- and kill 'Meyer 'a short lime later, but she, was no clear on other events that da when the state claims she ample opportunity to escape.

Classified Ails Get Quick Results couple, probably lie'held in Victoria on a change of venue. The first trial ended here' yesterday in a mistrial'after the jury reported-it was-unable "lo agree on a verdict. Lpnj is charged with killing lasl May Mrs. A. B.

Lippman; School Addition Mcinbcrs of Hie Amaiilln School approved final 'plans for-an elglil-rboin 'addiUori "Paramount Terrace Klcnichlary School at Ihcli' meeting Monday Following approval of Iho plans lie board set 7 p.m.,' Dec. 15, as he time bids for the construction of. the addition will' be lans for (he- addition pro- )arcd. by.Macon Also approved'were" coiilr'acfs with irchitecls for for a neiv flemfiilary -school-In' (lie Mesa Verde Addition, north of Nr; 21lh and east of (iraiKl, and for the new David Crox-kdi Junior High school In' the Olseu John ard Is arcliitect for tlie cjcincnlary school and'Howard Ensign and Associates are Hie archi ccts for Ci-ocliett Junior Iiistallafjon of scats in (lie Tascosa High School auditorium, which was temporarily suspended he past fciv weeks, will the approval of the Jleiiibcrs of.the school board Monday voted to proceed with (he work following their study of 'looring in (lie auditorium. Tlie boaixl also approved an in- dejwndcnt audit of the Amarillo Independent School District for tlie J957-5S fiscal year.

Wembcre of Iho. board'voted lo commit the school districl to Student Project. sjnnsoi'Cd by West Texas Slate" 'Iho project will cosl the district $3,200 a year lor Iwo years. TJie sum, plus $600 a year torn W'l'SC, will pay lor oiie teacher's Allowable" (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) hack on Ilic road. We, could so easily get back lo the mud of un connected wells' and increased Hnmon said.

He roc ommendcd 11 days. Nominations by companies: days, Indiana, Humble, Cities Service and Texas; 11 days, Sin clai'r. Magnolia, Atlanlic, Phillips Continental, Slandard of Texas and Gulf; 10 days, Shell arid Siin Houston ney representing said tlie company already had- commitments for spot purchases of 57,000 barrels day in December would need to buy'an 'additional 15,000 barrels, on the He'said Mumble's crude oil inventories were below (lie desired level because of.the stepped up'refinery runs due to'- increased demand. Humble nominated 437,345 barrels a 1 day. two nl Is in the proposed Teacher Ccriter The project Is (o prayWe Ing for sfuilciit WTSO tdibo assigned 16'niMler teachers In Iho public school sys- (fin.

Th'i) limsler teachers will ho relieved of one-fifth of their teaching load to devote time to (lie student tesdier trulnliig. Slate Chemical conlracls for furnisliivg gallons of per.cent rcgitiar floor wax at 51.28 a gallon for a total of 53,007.60 and for 2,220 gallons of per cent lo Bell' Chemical Company at 51.75 a gallon for a total of $3,885: Vance Hall Sporting Goods was low bidder on '10 hurdles to he used on the "Irack nt Palo Durb'High School for a price of $18-1; Morrbw- Thomas wis successful bfctder for the contract lo furnish 300, 30-gallon trash cans on a bid of 51,569. Scliell Nursery of. Oklahoma City successful bidder for furnishing shrublwry for Tascosa, Trails and Kalinin school gToiimk wlfli a Mil of The Paramount Terrace Baplist Church ras given an extension-of six! months on its -for further use of Ilic Paramount Ter- I'iice school building for churcli services. Plans arc being drawn for a neiv church building, which is expected to be completed in tlie summer of 1959.

Mrs. Ida B. Colilren was hired (o teach arithmetic and science in Olsen Park Elementary School aiirl Ihe resignation of Mrs. Evelyn Caviiicss, bookkeeper in the school business office, was accepted. Barn owls, valuable rat seldom are seen because Ihey carry on their activities at nighl.

KEETINif-. HOWVOU CAN I'H'CA--llth and JACKSON Shaw- IMNSLER Helen" Kansler. 83 of North vttl wile of David, mother ot Harmon, David L. Max. Mrs.

Esther WoalJi- prljr," Mrs. Ifclfin Elder. Service 10 t.rn, Tuesday. Grand Avenue Baptist Church. Kurlal Uar.o.

Charles Miller, 65. of 403 Tcr.nesjee, llusband of Olive falher or Mrs." Krcd Martha SheLton; era 17 to (her ot Uatld Shrllon; uncle of Ben F. per-dins. AX snr.msGKS Dr. Vi'aUcc Van Swcrlngpn.

IS, ot lionham. Husbantf of Opal, father ot Slelzcr. hrolhcr of Eerv-- Iccs'-J p.m. Fuesiiay, Metr.orial IjuHal A a Lee "AVhU" 40, o( 1021 RUSK, husband of -Xorer-d faCher cf Mike, Mrs, Shirley Kneed, ot and Mrs. Paul brother ot Mrs.

Jimmy NarreU. Ed W. Vornon. W. Pcle Whltaker.

Service 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Memorial Cr.awL B-jrial Llano -t Billy Ruth Ileir.In?. 26. of Milan). Eervlres 3 P.m.

loday. Ivy Chapel Burial Memorial Park. Grady' Odom, father Mry. tontc. RolalfvejE and rvlc r.ounccmcnts LeRoy Rhodes.

anr.aunccmttils 'OUR 55'h YEAR' FUNERAL SERVICE RELIABLE PARTY ADDED INCOME Wanfed to.sen-ice and collect from coin machines in Amarillo, Can be done any time of day. Investment not necessary, but possible, DRM035 Route 2, Box .711. SEND FLOWERS by Wire Delivery and Quality Guaranteed by the world's most responsible florists Consult the Yellow Pages of your telephone directory Look for 1 the FTD emblem FLORISTS' TELEGRAPH DELIVERY Llano Cemetery will be beautiful-alwayi People often ask, "Is it true that three or four generations from now Llano will be as a i as it is today?" It is true. A perpetual care fund of more than a half million dollars guarantees it. When families buy memorial properly at Llano, a portion of the money goes into the with each sale.tlie fund grows.

At Llano sel aside for perpetual care almost four limes the amount required by law. And only income from investment of the fund is used for maintenance and beautification. The principal can never be spent! The Llano Cemetery you see loday has been made possible by the perpetual care fund. Yet the 35 years of careful development represents only IpiSilll A a a Amai'illo, Texas Perpetual care fund over V- million dollars'.

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