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The Amarillo Globe-Times from Amarillo, Texas • Page 2

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AMARILLO GLOBE-TOIES, AMARILLO. TEXAS By THOMPSON earn repytai 'tions' for' New 'Orleans Is a'sex capital, San Fran- Is -noted for having, more than any In the nation, Chicago Is "the center of organized crime. -'Fort Worth is i Texas New Houston harbors a huge criminal-element. 'Chances of killing a man and' going scot free are pretty good right here, I don't know whether our crlm ihal prosecutions are under par or not, but Amarillo always has had more than its share of top' notch defense They statewldo reputations for getting their men Lawyers will tell you that-Potter County has some of the; most lax juries thai you can assemble in a jury twx. i T--T in the.

mont j-lending business have their own'criteria for sUing up a town. Los An- is a'con man's town, full of deadbeats. San Diego, Houston, has huge employ- raent turnover. Pay Is bat. there is' not 'much In security; A rnaa in the- ear basin ess hai to Ml or he will be snowed with Per capita Income, of San An- Is the) lowest ot the met.

ropolltan cltlei; of Texas, but the borrowers" there It There are few Austin is low income town, but frOm a finance standpoint, it Is a good town. Austin' people, by a large, take care of their 'obligations. T-T Here's a note from H. 'Clayburn Thompson, a traveling'man, who says he makes Amarillo about once a month. He says he reads our paper thoroughly and wha; he wants to know is, why do we all letters tp 'the editor and to He I 1 ie dignity should would'screen your mail or have someone -screen the.

letters you 'publish, .1 get around over the and I don't know of -any other paper that will print such a bunch 'of ca11owag V'; Maybe I'm just a jerk myself but I figure of the letters are reprinted in TPheT'Globe- Times are pretty think that. other; jerks have the right to sound off, Frankly, part of my day. is open- Jing from lour like -the Xojf-beat opinwrrj'fgbn- iained in some of the. spontaneous letters we. receive.

1 reasoning iri'sbme repriri may side' but at least, are rarels 'stuffy. "me more (than p.n editorial page loaded bunch of sarie prosaic letters that "deplore this" and "view this and that with alarm." Letters like sound as though thev have aped the style of the paper's editorial writers." -I The Association of CJilcaifo made. a and Jfounii oiiiy per 1 ce'nt of Chicago companies will have office celebrattons season. While, decline of earnings has 'rsomething to do with this, I sus- that office personnel are too disappointed. Most people who see each other day aft- er day in an office like a change They don't 'find ttoo much fan to Usten Jineaker, see a seedy Santa and sit and watch-the boss smoke a cigar at Die head 'table.

T-T only the farmer and ranch er but the quail and duck himte enjoyed early in the week. More will be. welcome had lakes creepin away from leavin the hunters out 'of 'range. Bir huntcrsi at least white bun ers, want some moisture on the high-grass. Otherwise, even th best bird dogs cannot do a rea This fellowlYetutielH.

Orgel press attache of the Israel Embassy In Washington, really knows how to appeal to Tej ans. Mr. Orgcl was here ove. the weekend in connection with the United Jewish Appeal. The first thing he started talking Is the similarity of Texas and Israel.

He says his try Is mostly arid or semt-arld, Is darnmlny np the canyons, re feeding land nnrl contour plow ing, both grass and farm land He-immediately stirred in ferest when he started t.illdn) about the school for cowboys His countrymen are having fo from scratch to learn to rkle horses and to nse them for herding purposes. In Israel It has never been known lo In the summer time and cattle.must be moved out the desert area of the country during (ho six-month period. Vocational Nurse Programs'Okayed AUSTIN (API-Vocational nurs training programs 'at 14 Tex, schools or hospitals have been a proved by the State Board of catlonal Nurse The board announced it has- censed 415 candidates who su cessfully took the October exam nations. There have been A tot ol 13,649 licenses Issued since, -vocational nurse law went Into fect In schools approved Include -Joseph 1 Hospital, Hospital and Clinic, I and Galyeston School Nursing, Gilyestoo. had heard Stefer try to Induce another man to shoot down-San Antonio truck Roy Gilbert, a hand grenade Army into Gil- sort's house.

1 Springer, now a San Antonio garage worker; said he helped on sabotage for Shafer because "1 iust- go against Mm." Shafcr and several other Teamsters officials Invoked the Futh Amendment in refusing a whetlier tlie tape recordings, nvute by Rangei-s, carried thrlr voices or whether they ever deilt Three. Uw Texqi A4M economics de- pcrtment relaxed briefly Ihii JBornlng be. kre tht noon program crt ike Herring Hotel, They BardinH. Pot Woolen arid Bob Skrabanek. The XM economies siaii program.at the meeting which is sponsored by the Amarillo'Chamber ol Conunerct, the Texas ASM Extension Service and ihe Fort Worth and Denser Railtead.

(Story en Page 1.) in violence. The recordings were scratchy and beeps foul officials who language. Three listened' refused to say -whether they' had an1hing to do with the alleged-, bombings, brick throwing and acid splasliUg that were described. trio, who took the Amendment, are: Fifth Shafer, who refused pnrricularly to say whether one of the voices heard on the his. R.

of Dallas, organizer for the 'Southern Conference of E. F. (Foots), Johnson, business manager of Shreveport, IA, Local 8. Texas Rangers said.they made the recordings by bugging 'a. room and taking down the conversations on Sept.

15, 1S55, with fceeps substituted for obscenities arid profanity. Zeno Smith, a Ranger, that the vdices were thosie ol Shafer and Buck '(Curley). Owens of Odessa, be used FROM PAGE'l) argaining contract with his com- any in give Is workers any voice in the contact terms. He said a delegation of union addressed his his invitation, and "they told ir employes they didn't care hat they (the workers) want- ley- were signing the contract us." Under ithe hot cargo practice, nionizeil truck lines' refused to a'ndle freight. to or from' any ne.

involved in a dispute with ie "Teamsters. The Senate committee is look- ig-'into this as part-of a study whether regulations against econdary boycotts need tighten- a 1 a majority of his mployes told didn't a be represented by-the nioh and i he refused to force lem tp join. After that, he said, other reight. boycotted hlpjrietil? Qnder what he Uiought He subsequently was by umerous con- hued, that'they undertook rganizing drive because "your xmpetitors forced us to." He' said it seemed reasonable assume that it was other loyers who arranged with Team- officials to picket ne thrown.around his place of usiness he had -'carried i'e' fight tp the' lelations that he sign a conf came.from Teamster-Local 6 in Oklahoma City in o.Texas Teamsters. These demands, hs saidj'were ed.by threats of economic pres- ire.

Barry -testified he advised the nion that into agreement i i i von 'a representation 'election. bui eceiveri no reply and on Apri 8. "a secondary boycott as invoked against us in Okla- oma said was done, by Olilatioma City froctters under the hot. cargo clause of'their' contract with the Teamsters; But he this as very peculiar because the Teamsters had put out no notice to the companies labor dispute with his firm. Kone o( his on trike." nor was there any picke.i ine around his company, he said tpt" the carriers up there refusing our freight had "shut us down Barry-said he personally got iis trucks and tendered freigh carriers in Oklahoma nterchange point, but practically ivery one them refused to take it.

Sen. John McCIella'n chairmanVof the special investigating 'committee, asked If it yere the employes of the Okla- loma City carriers or company officials who refused to handle 'reight from his firm. "I started at the bottom and worked up," Barry replied, adding he tendered his. ship, ments to employes all the way up to vice presidents of the other i lie said it was obvious the in- dividuals whom he the freight'w'ere not making their dwn Barry, said that in May. of 1955 le filed complaint of unfair la- xr practices against Local S66 svith the NLRB and also applied the interstate Commerce.

for authority: to ihe' service the Oklahbrna "shippers 1 In the he 'said the Teamsters had sent out letters saying that his company was' unfair. Barry said the ICC granted pri a temporary basis the authority 'le'had kind of threw Hie'whip cream IK ihi fan," he said, adding that on May 9 the Oklahoma shippers asked him If he had any sirite or picket line at his a "He told them he didn't and they told him they would notify, the teamsters that they were violating the hot cargo clause. Barry testified he immediately reported this 'to Ihe NLRB "and tbe'next day he did have pickets not any of our K. Kennedy, the committee eoimsel, asked if It were ihe employers who got the picket "It reasonable to assume that," Barry-replied. Barry said the ICC granted his company another 15-day extension of its-, temporary' authority to handle shipments Tefused-by the Oklahoma-carriers and the NLRB instructed its regional, Dallas to seek an injunction against the He -this the Teamsters "entered 'into 'a -cease and desist agreement with'-the NLRB and on'May 31, "the-sec- oridary boycott was over." But hi said the "hot cargo" clause-still existed carried on his legal fight-'against it before the ICC.

The Interstate Commerce Commission, in an action' started by Barry, finally ruled such, tactics illegal. The -Rackets Committee an nounced it also'would call' officials of the Coffey Transfer Alma, allegedly'driven ou of business, by a hot cargo boycott Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy said John Bridge of Chi labor consultant to the Motor Carriers Advisory Council would be questioned about agree fnents: under some of the firms Bridge represents allegedly participated in boycotts. In its hearing Tuesday, the com millee received testimony tha 'eamsters terrorists plotted bomb- ngs and other violence, against ruckers who.defied them. in 'evi- batch of. secretly made I recordings purported 'record the', Raymond Shafer and some 'other: Tea raters officials, in 'discussions of lombuigs Bother violence.

Ihafer" is business manager of Teamsters local. K7-in San Ah onio, Tex. William R. (Buddy) Springer, a confessed former hoodlum, swore OUR YEAR' 681665 FUNERAL SERVICE A Serving The Mosf People In the Panhandle A A I I A A A STRATFORD :6 be a rtrohc inn" man tof A that he Kelp- In some bombings and' that him tovwrfck In labor'- nianagcinenj dls- ulcs. Owens also said Shafcr once ricd to ket him to 'shoot from ambush, the son of Hoy Gilbert, of Sputhweslcrn Motor Transport of San Shiier's turned red when the committee chairman; Sen.

Jotih (D-Ark) him about Ownes' story that Shaf- cr Ordered the word in acid on a non-striker's forehead. Siiafer, Johnson and' Bunch refused to say whether they, had engaged in violence at the orders oi W. M. Dallas, head of the Southern Conference of Teamsters. The tape recordings dealt with; Talk about setting afire trucks owned by Southwestern Motor Transport, bombings'of a building In Austin, the accidental explosion of $5,000 worth ot dynamite allegedly shipped by to Shreveport, the' looting of dynamite frorri a contractor's powder magazine, and hiring Mexicans to do dirty work.

There was also wrangling over the size of fees allegedly paid to Ownes for strong arm work. At Austin, Dist. Ally. Les Proct- a case "still is there against Shafer, Proctor said'Shafer was indictee in-Austin re- indicted 6, 1957, for possess- in? a bomb and tor arson. TJie'attorney said Sbafer hadn'l been brought to trial'-because-o: a heivy docket but added that "Shafer's casa always has been a'live one." Teamster leader was''beet 1956, ot charges'in attempted bombing of the Alanv Freight Lines in San Antonio Jan the San Antonio jury its Joe Brown' ordered the arrest and (Buddy Springer, both of whom testified afShafer's trial.

Both-sought 1 to lie Shafer to bombings Antonio and Austin area. Much of testimony in''Wash- OEOROA MARBU! TATE, The.iworWs largest marble 'deposit Is' Tate. 5. 1KB. Even -before' Grady Father" ft Mrs.

Monk. Mrs. Joyce. Cupples, Dar-M Sharry -Kay odom; brctr.ei cl Tom. at Barney.

Allen. Nancy Le Roy hmbajid of Winnie: falhar Mark; brother of Hn. K. P. McNully.

Mrs R. A. Burr.j. MH. B.

McCoy. Mrs. Me. 1 Cllnlck, R. Rhoies.

servlct peod- DR. STILLMAN ANDERSON Announces the Opening ot His New Office at 2705 Mocking-bird -FL6-5441. Dentistry 8-6. Two Saved- FROM PAGE.l) he ship 'went down Is -some 330 deep. The.

Bradley, built In 192T and hen the largest ship on the Great had a cargo capacity 'of 14,800 tons. Capt. Bryan was from Loudenville, N.Y.,' but. 31 ot his 15-man crew from the little Lake Huron port of Rogers'- City. Bradley flew the flag of the Bradley Transportation of Rogers City.

The firm Is 'a subsidiary of U.S.' Slecl and iauls Iron-making Never before had Bradley lost ship and It claimed a world record for safety. The Carl D. Bradley was on its 4Glh' trip of the lakes shipping season in which It had covered 27,000 miles this year. At 31'it was relatively young as lakes freight- Between them, the seamen who manned the ship had 52 children Theodore Dhalberg of Sault Ste. Marie, who skippered the Bradley from 1930 to sale "Her rivets probably worked loose It could happen, in a storm -like this oriel The lake the (CONTINUED FftOM PAGE 1) 'arm population on urban labor R.

Skrabanek, rural, sociol- dglsl, said there ore 400,000 workers in the labor force are producing farm and ranch com- modlties In About the same employed in the manufacturing'and landltng Industry. SkrrtbaneU gaJd about people are employed In niMu- faclurliig which Involves food nnrt kindred products. The-ie home an annual of 230 million dollars. Clollilng 28,000 with a payroll of 61 mil. lion dollars annually.

Other examples noulj be cited Vs-ll- lustrations of processing ami distribution upon furm.s anil Skra- banek said, The scss'lon held here was one of several being hold in cities throughout (lie state. Amafillo's program was sponsored Uie Amarillo Chamber of Commerce, the Texas A 6M Extension Serv. ice and the Etyt Worth and Denver Railroad. ocean. On the lake storms build up waves in quick The last previous major disaster in the Great Lakes, was Jn 19531: -The American freighter Henry Stcinbrenher went down.

In Lake Superior in 72 m.p.h. winds. Seventeen of its 31 crewmen died. The Novadock'and. the Anna C.

Minch went to the bottom in a Lake Michigan storm in November, 19W, with the loss of 57 lives. A storm which hit. Lake Huron Nov. 11, -1913 destroyed 18 ships and killed 25-i persons. Flying a national flag upside down at sea Is a signal of ineton and "San'Antonio was AMARJLLO'S.

iriel CLEANING DEASON'S Dial OR2-126S Lila Faye ofd'itouthlcr or Mr. Mrs. nohcrt I. luxwe'l of Tulls. ot Linda.

Urry Grar.d- ttup.Ur 61 Mr ar4 Jin, A 'I. i IVIM Charlej li Miller. S3, ot Hujbajid of Olive Mrs I-red Slwllra; sran'dfiUicr of David Shellon': uncle 61 Ben. F. Tlslnger.

Services 9:30 A m. Wednesday, Memorial Chapel. Also trtve- slde tervfce 2 p.ml. Texluic, lex. WH1TAKER WfcKaker, VI.

ot Ifta RUS'K. husband ol Norene. lather cl Mike. Sneed, ion oj'llr. and Mr Paul VVhltaker.

brother ol Mrs. Jlmnjy Ed W. Vemon, W. Pele Whltalter; tnwdfafter ot Ittt'xtt. Service 10:33 a.m.

IVednei- flay. Memorial O-Jipel. Burial LUiw. Just.iin.time for Christmas' i GREATEST IIIIIIE LOWEST PR ICES JHi John Cresip. 74, Jon.

Ktw Mwlco. Father ot John B. Cresap. MAnarel brother of Slella. Mrs.

Faith shochrldie. Ar- ranserr.flr.U pending. Lovely Nylons by- KTTEH Sflf-SfRVKE AND SUPfR MARKETS DISCOUNTS EVER OFfERED BY IHT DISCOUNT HOUSE OR JEWEIER ANYWHERE And we have them all! Bulova, Gruen, Longines Baylor, Wittnauer Foclory Price Priet B'JLOVA Mon's Aulomotic 95.00 71.50 BULOVA 21-jewel Lod's Dress 71.50 53.50 BULOVA 17-jewel Man's Dress 71.50 53.50 BULOVA 17-iewel Man's Waterproof 37,00 BULOVA 17-jeivc! Man's "Senotor" 37.75 27.25 17-jewel 89.50 SS.J5 22-iewel 85,00 'HAMILTON 1 T-jewel BULOVA 17-jewel lady's "Goddess of i 5g' 50 'ELGIN 17-jewel 17-jewel Lady's Dress "Nancy" 3 9 7 5 23-Iowel Lord Elgin. 85 00 'ELGIN 21-fewet Lord Elgin 7 g' 50 11 i i i i i A i Zolt't Priti 35.95 .71.25 i3.95 63,75 59.75 ALSO ELGIN, HAMILTON and BULOVA DlMAOlMD WATCHES 5 'HAMILTON ond ELGIN with TRADE-IN Your Credit is Good--No Down--No Payments Till Next Year i.

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