Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 1

rr FAIR AND WARMER mm EVENING WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT Byron VOL LXXV NO 227 Auociated Preia (P) PRICE DAILY 5c SUNDAY 10c ABILENE TEXAS MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 6 TWENTY PAGES biroskm FORECAST DISHEARTENING Sun Looks 'Mighty Good' To Snow-Weary Plainview 'BEARING CAMERAS RADIOS' Russia Says US Sending 'Spy' Balloons Over Area By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The sun broke through over Pin inview Monday morning ending at least temporarily the icy ordeal damped on tho Tesu Panhandle and South Plains by tho state's worst snowstorm in half a century "Boy oh boy that sun looks good" a Plainview man said after ighting his way to the office through 30-inch snow and drifts up to feet Plainview wu the hardest hit of Panhandle cities by the mammoth ilizzard that began last Wednesday and nm to a roaring climax Friday night and Saturday More Bmw Fererait Although some accumulated snow wm expected to melt away Monday with a predicted maximum of 40 degrees in Plainview the local orecast uid thkre wu a posslbl-lily of light snow again Tuesday Business streets were being IN MAROONED BUS IN TWO SECTIONS cleared in Plainview early Monday but most residential strets were stm Impassable Lubbock Amarillo and a score of smaller cities also wero virtually paralyzed Sunday by the accumulated snow Milk and bread trurki managed to break through to 01 ton tho first deliveries line Friday A Hale county farm woman died In childbirth because an ambulance could not reach her The Panhandle South Plains form cimaxed a blzzard that wept into the state last mid-week covering most of the state with an ice and anow cap and rcauling in the death of at least 30 persons Snow Sunday Moderating weather la Central North and East Texas over the weekend erased the last vestiges of the storm but the northwest part of the slate remained encased in snow and ice Only a trace of moisture fell at Abilene Sunday on the heels of feesing rain sleet and show which began here last Wednesday Snow foil at Sweetwater from about 11 pm Saturday until mid-morning Sunday depositing between one quarter and one half inch of anow there Stamford reported 03 of an Inch of moisturs from anow which fell there Sunday Weathermen aaid the mercury will reach 45 to 50 degree in Abilene Monday and high Tuesday win be in the low S0i The high here Sunday wm 37 after an overnight low of 34 Sen Johnson Asks Senate Investigation WASHINGTON III Democratic eader Lyndon Johnson of Texas uked the Senate today to over an investigation of a preferred 3500 campaign contribution to Sen Francis Case (R-SD) Cut im described it as an effort to influence Ms vote on the natural gas bill Johnson proposed that a committee of two republicans and two democrats be created to go into the matter It would be required to report by March 1 Case told the Senate about the offer of a campaign contribution ast week but did not say who offered it In Lexington Neb John fen an attorney said today he assumed he wm the man mentioned by Cate as having left 33 hundred-dollar bills with Case's campaign treasurer In South Dako- i Neff denied the money wu intended to influence Case's vote on bin to exempt natural gas pro-ucers from direct federal regulation Sen Hruska (R-Neb) told newsmen that Neff twice had approached him and asked him to vote for the bill He talked to mo briefly in Omaha and WuMngton in the inter cats of the gu bill" Ilrusks said Sen Schoepple (R-Kan) a gu till supporter Mid Neffs statement that there were no strings attached to the proposed campaign contributions made seem to Mm a matter for tho rather than Senate-investigation Backers and opponents diugree sharply over whether enactment of the bill would result in higher gas prices to householders Close Vote Dm Both aides predicted the vote would be close The consensus seemed to be that the MU would pass by a narrow margin An almost identical one wm approved by the House last year 309-303 Sen Douglas (D-Ill) an opponent said on an ABC television program yesterday the fate of the measure hangs "in the balance" There wu no way of assessing the effect on the outcome of Sen statement that a lawyer whom he had never met but whom he believed to be interested in passage of the bill had given a friend of his $3500 In cash si a contribution to Ms reflection campaign Case aaid he directed that the money be returned Despite urging from some of Ms colleagues Case hu refused to tell the name of the man Special Committee Sen Lyndon Johnson of Texas the Democratic leader wu ready to bring before the Senate a resolution to act up a special committee to investigate Case's account of the incident "down to the very end" The special committee would be comprised of two Democrats and two Republicans Sen Knowland of California the GOP leader Joined Johnson in the request for an Investigation and no opposition wu apparent in advance Case said he welcomed an Investigation and promised to cooperate fully He indicated that he hu given tho name of the man involved to two FBI agents MOSCOW (ffl Russia charges that 8 military forces art dispatching fleets of huge balloons carrying automatic cameras and radio equipment ever Soviet territory from West Germany and other bonier nations (In Washington a State Department spokesman Indicated the Russians apparently were objecting to hlgh-alUtude weather balloons the Air Force announced last month it would send up in Europe in preparation for the International Geophysical Year) A Soviet note published by the official news agency Tass demanded that the United States immediately stop such activity It said the balloons were a menace to air craft Demands Halt It demanded a halt also to propaganda-carrying balloons by private organizations Tass said the Soviet protest was handed to 5 Ambassador Charles Bohlen by Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A Gromyko A similar protest went to Turkey The Soviet note complained that the balloons weighing nearly three quarters of a ton when loaded "are launched by United States military organs from the territory of Western Germany and from United States air bases on the ter ritory of several states bordering on the Soviet Union" "The apparatus suspended from the aerial spheres includes automatic photographic cameras for aerial photography radio transmitters radio receivers and other things" the note said "Investigation shows these spheres and the 500 Students Riot NICOSIA Cyprus ID British troops and police battled 500 rioting students in the streets of Famagusta today One bomb broke a camera A Brit- ish-owned shop was damaged The rioting broke up after an hour BEARDED BRIGHTIES Minimum emperatures Monday ranged from 4 at Lubbock to 40 at Galveston Dalhart had 13 San Angelo 35 Midland 33 Dal! as 31 WicMta Falla 31 Houston 30 Sm Antonio 30 Beaumont 41 Luikln 30 and Texarkana 35 A light snow fell Sunday In many parti of the Panhandle adding to the record breaking fafl of Friday and Saturday The greatest fall wm 30 or so inches at Plainview Huge drifts that la places towered more than six feet atilt blocked many Mghwayi and still left two mall communities Dlmmllt and County Line Isolated PrrmlaslM Kredrd Bulldozers and other road grading equipment were pressed into servlet to clear highways and streets The Lubbock Plainview highway wu reported passable late Sunday but permission of the Highway Patrol wm necessary to make tho trip "A few ears are beginning to venture out and we have the streets hi the downtown area passable now" Ed Sheeon of the Plain-view police aaid early Monday Up until Sunday about the only vehicles out were heavy trucks and police can equipped with chains1 City bua system la Plainview Amarillo and Lubbock ceased operation Friday afternoon when the snowstorm reached blizzard pro-part Ions Tasteaba wvM nsinvie' Virtually Ml acbooU la the Panhandle and South ITalna closed the latter part of tho week At Oiton the bread and milk supply became critically abort A milk truck from Plainview and a bread truck from Lubbock reached the Lamb County town Sunday but hungry citizens who greeted them quickly took their supply Woman Dire Mn Norberto Perei died in childbirth on a farm four miles from Plainview an ambulance fought the deeply-piled snow in a futile attempt to reach her The ambulance which had to go in a round-about way required two and a half houn to reach the form house In Amarillo John Barron dropped dead while trying to free hia car stuck in the anow Alan Beene an Amarillo grocer died of a heart attack from shoveling anow Crash Hurts Cisco Man and 3 Tourists CISCO Feb 6 (RNS)-A Cisco man and three women believed to be from Minnesota were Injured about 0 a Monday in an autopickup truck accident about three miles east of Putnam on 80 Robot McKinney of Rt 1 Cls-do entered the highway from a lateral road The three women were traveling west on to AD four were taken to Graham Hospital at Cisco by Wylie Funeral Home ambulances Extent of their injuries wm not known at 11 am today The highway patrol la investigating the accident Driver Braves Snow To Save Passengers TUCUMCARI NM Ul The Francisco one of the passengers howling blizzard heaped waist-1 "Wa wen really praying for him" high drifts of mow and Mnt tern-1 reported Mrs Laura of peraturei plunging to 10 below Santa Santa Barbara Clif Through bus driver Jdhn Herron 31 struggled for 14 hours seeking help Behind him wero tho 10 passengers In his bus many of them praying that he would get through The bus had slipped from tho highway Into a drift For five hours Herron had waited for help theu he set out He collapsed few yards from service station at nearby Glen-rio NM He had strength enough to whistle and was rescued by men from the station Help was started on Its way to the II miles away in one of the worst storms in recent years In this state Snowplows and tractors broke a path to the bus taking food and water and fuel to keep the bus heaters going during the night Early yesterday after 31 hours of waiting tho passengers were removed brought to Tucumcari and then set on their way Herron la in a Tucumcari hospital recuperating from tnowblind-mm frostbltto and exhaustion He is reported In good condition "I prayed all the Mid Mrs Henrietta Roosevelt of San Barely able to speak abort a whisper the but driver told how ho stumbled and fell three or lour times "but kept getting upI was afraid to stop because I though 1 go on then Given credit for keeping up tho spirits of tho passengers by keeping the heater running at intervals on a dwindling fuel supply and "by telling Jokes and things" were Norris Turner of Los Angeles and Richard Mosely from Selma Ma Everyone waa in pretty good Norris said "No one wu really worried except about the bus driver" Skies Sunny Warmup Due Skies were clear ever Abilene Monday morning and the Weather Bureau here forecast dear skies and warmer weather for Monday and Tuesday Man Dentes Funds Given As Incentive LEXINCTON Neb (ft-Lexlnf-ton attorney John Neff Mid today ho assumes he la tho man reerred to by Sen Com (R-SD) SI the source of a $3500 campaign kind Neff 47 denied the money waa ntended to Influence Case to vote for tho controversial natural gu bill He Mid ho raised the money "a campaign contribution without any strings Neff made public a copy of telegram to Case Senate Majority eadrr Lyndon Johnson of Texas and Minority Leader William Knowland of California I was incensed to learn that you mentioned this matter on tho iienate floor without divulging tho name and with the Implication and inference that It wm aoma kind of i shady deal" It said Tho Omaha World llerald which Irst reported Nelfa telegram quoted him as Hying that ha would defer any answer in connection with when he had natural gu interests until questioned by the FBI or Senate investigators He gave similar answer to where ha obtained the $3500 In the telegram ha described himself favoring pasHga of tho Harris bill exempting producers of natural gas from direct regulation by the federal power commission Nett Mid the money wm given "with no strings attached whatsoever" to help In Case's re-eleo-llon campaign The attorney said bo would not object to on investigation Asked if ho had any connect Ion with natural gaa Interests Neff told the Worid-IIciald he woukJ defer hia answer until questioned by the FBI or Senate investigators He gave i similar anewer when uked where he obtained the $3-500 Ike Man Neff who described himself a "conservativ Republican Mid he telegraphed Sen Case Saturday that ha "wm amazed and hocked at the news released in tho papers on the radio and TV cernlng your speech In tho Senate" "1 assume I am man' you referred to since I delivered a contribution to your campaign fond several weeks ago" Son Com told the Senate Friday ho had rejected a $3500 campaign contribution from an out-of-stata awyer who "wm not an opponent tho bllL1' Ha Mid ho had been disposed before to vote for the bill but now planned to vote against It Sonata leaden promptly announced plans for i formal probe to see whether federal law had been violated The natural gas bill tho Harris measure would exempt producer prices of natural gaa from district ederal con troll Truman Says GOP Must Be Badly Hurt By His Assertion NEW YORK ill Former President Harry Tnuhan uys tho Republican party "must have been pretty badly hurt" by hia assertion that Vice President Richard Nixon called him a traitor Tndnan based hia observation on GOP National Chairman Leonard Hall's challenge to Truman to pinpoint where Nixon bad made the remark "All over the West" wm Truman's first answer to Hall "All I did wm read tho papers They wouldn't keep that kind of reference at Republican national headquarters anyway" ha went on "I do not wish to engage in any further controversies with them I've had my Iky They must havn been pretty bufly hurt by all this Why else have they raised such a furor? THE WEATHER vm difsitmknt nr connkbci JBiK IsB'vTaftffS nrt aanNi Ilahtly wi Mm Clwr to Nat wilto thto altfraoM aad suspended apparatus are manufactured in the United States" The protest charged that the activity Is "a gross violation of Soviet air space contrary to obligations assumed by the government in accordance with the UN Charter and incompatible with normal relations between states" The note was the first Soviet accusation that the military was sending balloons into Russia Previously Tass and Communist newspapers had carried on a running attack against propaganda balloons sent up from West Germany by the American Free Europe Committee a private organization which operates Radio Free Europe The AIR Force prior to this Rotten Pelt Guy ALGIERS (It-Ydllng crowds of angry colonials hurled rotten tomatoes at Premier Guy MoDet today as he arrived in Algiers seeking to quiet hostile French settlers and curb nationalist violence Police and troops held back an angry throng as MoDet placed a wreath on the monument to Algerian war dead The crowd trampled the wreath to bits after the ceremony The shouts and chants of the throng drowned out the military band which played during the ceremony Preeantlns Mollet drove to the square In a flag-decorated car which was pelted There were a few flowers thrown In his path however The huge crowd began to assemble hours before his arrival She said she didn't know how to do tho Job wanted A call came from a regiiar customer: "Would you please dye my husband's beard?" the customer asked "1 mind him growing one but his is coining out Dr El win Skilea pastor of the First Baptist Church looked over Ms congregation Sunday morning "1 shall recomihend to the deacons" he Mid "that the name this organization be changed to the of David Baptist Almost any male of age can sprout a beard In one form or another but It always follow the correct color pattern of the individual's position Take the county official for example who Mid the other day that Ma beard wasn't the right color "I'm going to dye it all" he Mid "What color?" someone asked "Looking over the county budget" he Mid "I think I'll dye it a sort of speckled year had used its huge "Moby Dick" weather balloons only in the United States Its January announcement said the program was being expanded to other areas in the Northern Hemisphere including Europe Alaska and Hawaii The giant plastic balloons carry weather instruments cameras and equipment registering cosmic rays and other data which is radioed automatically to ground stations The Air Force Mid such information would be of great use In the 1957-51 Geophysical Yedr Then two score nations Including Russia will Join in gathering a vast amount of information about weather' terrestrial magnetism earthquakes and other geophysical data omatoes Mollet from Paris wm made up largely of war veterans and students Elaborate police and troop precautions wero taken Angry French settlers who oppose any concessions to the nationalists threatened bloodshed If Motet carries out his intent to bring Sen Georges Catroux here ae res-dent Cabinet minister Catroux is mown to favor mors rights for tho North African territory's native Moslems Many European stone dosed and worried parenta kept their children from achooL Although no personal attack! on Mollet were expected fame 3000 Foreign Legionnaires and 3 000 riot police with armored vehicles encircled the tense city Strong military guards wero planned for Mollet Demonstrations Tension increased over the weekend French war veterans led European crowds through the streets of Algiers and ether major cities demonstrating against any softening toward tin nationalist terrorists The rebels who have kept 300 000 French troops tied up wero expected to continue their pressure diving Moilet's visit to underscore their autonomy demands Mollet has promised quick elections to pick Algerian leaden to negotiate with France on measure of self-rule Before taking off from Paris to tackle the main problem facing his six day old government MoUet said he would stay In Algeria "three weeks if Decenary" to quiet the 15-month Moslem rebellion "I will do my best to avoid all bloodshed" he Mid Wait Independence Most of the eight million Algerian Moslems are clamoring for Independence But the million Europeans mostly French want to retain Algeria under French rule Many Algerian French view the 79-year-old Catroux as a "liquidator" of former Empire He is held at least partly reaponsl-bla for successive French loss Syria and Indochina Ha la also blamed for playing a major role in bringing exiled Sultan Mohammed ben Youaeef back to Morocco Present plans call for Catroux to arrive here Friday Mollet will spend the intervening days trying to keep things quiet before seeing him officially Installed NEWS INDEX SECTION A Women's iswa 4 Sports 1 0-1 1 Radio TV logi 11 SECTION Editorial (2 Comic 4 ObittioriM 7 Daughter Bristles Over Dad's Brush TODAY'S MARKETS NEW YORK (A-The stock market opened higher again today in fairly active trading Gains ran to about a point in key Issues Some small losers appeared Westlnghouse was up 1 Steel up (4 and Chrysler off at 75(4 on 3000 shares Among small gainers were Anaconda Santa Fe Bethlehem Steel and du Pont General Electric Goodrich and Allied Chemical wero off slightly Many of the Brothers of the Brush are getting the bristly treatment at home Like Hugh Bowie a Jeweler whose beard takes on a sort of a rusty hue "My daughter says ashamed to go out In public with me" Bowie lamented as he stroked his whiskers at that age where she doesn't think I have much sense he grinned A southside beautician Saturday turned down a request for service which exceeded her skin $300 Loot Taken From Warehouse At Sweetwater SWEETWATER Feb 0 The Joe Benson Service Station warehouse located on West Broadway Sthere was burglarised over the weekend police reported Monday and about $300 In merchandise wm missing- Tho warehouse for the station is located adjacent to the service station Police said entry vu made through a aide door by breaking off tho lock The warehouse was doted at 10 pm Saturday and opened at 8 arj Monday when the burglary wm discovered Stolen merchandise Included tires motor oil and otfaar itemr police add Dr Sainburg Resigns From Hospital Staff BIG SPRING Feb 6 Dr Frank Sainburg has resigned from the Veterans Hospital staff here effective Feb 1L Dr Sainburg who wu the central figure In a recent alleged kidnaping Incident said that his present plans art uncertain 1 MSSSSBi USaur Ersrssrj? RAVAGES OF This 1951 Ford burned about 8 pm Sunday on Road 1234 east of Abilene Owner of the vehicle was Clinton 1858 Pine SL (Photo by Darol Ady Box 630 Station ACC Abilene I 4.