Clovis News-Journal from Clovis, New Mexico • Page 1

"Lines of least resistance make crooked rivers, and crooked men." William anforth Sri CRUSHED TO DEATH VOL. 27. NO. on DP Leased Wire Airman Nabbed Trying To Sell Murder Victim's Car "New Mexico's Most Consistent Newspaper 7 JLOVtS KEWS-JOtJKNAL. By COLTON HOUSTON, July A husky airman arrested in Nogales, to sell the dust-covered automobile of one of three murder Victims was flown here Saturday night by Texas Rangers in a private plane.

The suspect, Ellis E. an airman, aso had in his possession a .22 caliber pistol of the type used to kill two mond rings. Lauhon was arrested Friday In the Mexican border city of Nogales, Sonora, in its "red light" district. Mexican authorities sent him across the border to Nogales, about noon Saturday and U.S>. officers took charge.

Bodies Found In Bed The bodies of Mrs. Ruby Me- Pherson, 44, her son, George, 12, ana ner man, 65, their Dick They had since June A small used to kill Mrs. McPhi ns were a ment ring. The airm and her Mrs. Zola Nor- were found In bed at 'nson home, June 26.

been dead apparently IN FRONT LAWN PHENOMENON Garden Hose Is Gradually Being Drawn Straight Down Into Earth sn wasarrestod In the (Seo AIRMAN Page 9) Holiday Begins By UNITED PHESS New Mexico's highways filled the shoulders with holiday motot ists Saturday as the state took tc the open to celebrate the Fourth of July weekend. long State Police Chief Joe Roach cancelled nil days off for his men and pulled all stops in hopes heading off as many traffic accl dents as posslbe. The weatherman compounded tin situation by predicting beautiful summery weather for the entire state through the early part of the weekend at least. in into the 100-degree zone in the southeast and it was almost as ho except for the DOWNEY, July 2- up amateur prospector tried with a geiger counter Saturday to solve the mystery of the disappearing garden hose which has stumped geologists by burrowing 17 feet stragiht down into the earth in a Downey front yard. Construction electrician Glenn Saunders of nearby Azusa took his sclnttllalor to the home of truck driver George DiPero, poked it into a two-foot diameter hole dug in lawn where the hose is disappearing and immediately got a reading.

However, his belief that, some unknown metal of radioactivity might have caused the apparent phenomenon Asia Is Watching For Digging Hose SAN FRANCISCO, July here were of the opinion that truck driver George DiPeso, of Downey, should add another length to his disappearing' hose If only In the interests of friendly Asian relations. A message received from Tokyo at the United Press office 'read: "Tell DiPeso in Downey the other end of his hose has not turned up here- yet, but we're all looking." "-V 'i "rrirn- Three Being Held, Fourth In Hospital Three persons are being held on various charges and a fourth is in Clovis Air Force Base hospital with a badly bitten finger as a result of a madcap taxi ride Friday night. The story, as told by law enforcement officiafs here, is, that the two airmen from the base, both Sioux Indians and half- brothers, entered a cab and asked the driver where they might pick up some whiskey and woman. In the process, according to th officers, the cab driver oblige with both and the four drove an isolated spot north of Clov; Air Force Base. One of the airmen alleged! gave the cab driver $20 for th taxi ride, the whiskey and th woman and an argument develop ed over the amount of money in volved.

In the ensuing frafcas, accordin; to police, the driver bit on of the Indians so severly tha the airman had to be and his finger "may have to amputated." The cab driver then fled to a nearby farmhouse to call author! ties, while the other men ao Die women got in the cab am drove to town, but were plckei up by police just inside the city limits. The woman was charged with prostitution, the cab driver with procuring and one of the airmen for taking the taxi without the owner's consent, police who ed them over to Curry County officers said. Tha airman with the bitten fin ger is under guard at the base hospital and may be charged later, according to law enforce- officers. proved unfounded. Saunders sadly reported the reading "was just athat of the brass nozzle on the end of the plastic hose." DiPeso reported the hose is going down in the earth at about the rate of "an inch an hour." "And every once in a while the hose shakes like something is tugging on the other end," DiPeso said.

"It's real 1 He is reluctant to permit drilling or digging to discover what, is causing the hose to disappear because "it would ruin my lawn." Meanwhile, many cars carrying sightseers drove to Di- peso's modest little home. Scores stopped to peer in awe, shake their heads and offer their own theories. The Di- Peso family was flooded with telephone calls from newspapers, national magazines, radio chains and television stations. One newspaper, telephoned from New York. At the same time, the Los Angeles Mirror-Daily News offered to donate 50 feet of hose" to DiPeso "just to see how far down in the ground the hose would go.

1 The newspaper said it would like to attach the additional hose to the end of the burrowing hose wrich still is out of the (See GARDEN Page 9) Private Plane Crash Kills Clovis Air Force Base Pilot 2nd Lieutenant John W. Van- denbroek, 23, an F86-H Sabre jet pilot assigned to the 386th Fighter Bomber Squadron at Clovis Air Force Base, was instantly killed Friday afternoon when the single-engined open cockpit private plane he was in crashed at Portales. V. W. Kyte, of Portales, to whom the plane critically injured belonged, was and Saturday was still unconscious in the Roosevelt County Hospital where he was taken immediately following the-trftsh.

Mrs. Vandenbroek and-her two small children, John 2H and Benessa, 11 months, were in car at Portales Municipal Airport and watched the plane as it crashed into an alfalfa field be- onging to L. O. Dunn. The pilot's wife, who lived 2800 Prince, said that her husband and Kyte both wanted to buy the World War II training plane, but that the Portales man got it first.

Vandenbroek wa checking Kyte out on the con trols, and the plane appeared to be coming in for a landing when it" slipped while banking and fei to earth, witnesses reported. Gorden Greaves, editor and publisher of the Portales Dali News, stated that Mrs. Vanden broek kept rein on her emotions'. "Very calrii and certainly has a lot of what it takes," Greaves said. Vandenbrok had been in the Air for two years.

His home was, in New York City. Funeral arrangements are pending. Celebrations included at Espanola and Los Lunas, double header baseball games and the fish? ns80rtment of Picnicking and By only a matter of hours did the state escape starting off its weekend on a tragic note Two airmen were killed in sen- arate accidents Friday, but both CU Jbefore the 6 P' "me established by the National Safotv Council as the beginning of the holiday weekend. THOUGHT SHE WAS DEAD. Police Investigate Pair Of Collisions City police collisions that investigated two occurred within ft.

the city limits Friday. One involved a 1953 Chevrolet by Richard Lovekamp, of the CJovis Air Force Base, and a 1951 Nash driven by Dick Farrow, 2104 Wallace. Lovekamp'a car received $50 damage 0 the left front fender and light while the other car received $25 damage to the right front fender, police reported. The collision occurred at 7th and Calhoun. In the other collision that occurred In the 1200 block pn West 7th parked cur.

a 1953 Chevrolet station wuguu belonging to G. V. Bost, 3100 Sbeidoxi, was Involved. Police reported that the parked station wagon was struck by a 1954 Chevrolet ton and a half truck belonging to Laughlin ice Company when the truck was being backed from the curb by I.R. Robinson, 1212 WaJla.ee.

No ww listed to tint truck. Girl, Astride Pony, Hurled Mile In Storm BOWDLE, S. July Nine-year-old Sharon Weron said Saturday she thought she "was dead" as she was being whirled a mile through the air astride he; pony when a tornado struck nea; her home Friday. The twister struck southwest and north of Bowdle, causing extenslv crop and building damage. Sharon was riding her pony home from a visit at the Frani Grismer home six miles away Her mother, Mrs.

Joe Weron, ant three other'children returned home in the car. Had Put Car Up Mrs. Weron said she had just put the rar in the garage when the storm struck. Sharon was stil about 100 yards down the road. Mrs.

Weron said the winds picked up Sharon and the pony swirled them through the air aboui six feet off the ground, and dropped them on a high hill about Russell Hardwick Honored By NMTOA And Gov. Simms Russell Hardwick of Clovis has been designated as "Mr. Show man of New Mexico" in an of- icial resolution signed John F. Simms. by Gov.

Hardwick, now receiving medical are i the Bataan Memorial Hospital in Albuquerque, was pre- ented the resolution by John Joe Wilkinson of Portales, formerly of Clovis, now acting chairman of the sew Mexico Democratic Central Committee, on behalf of Gov. Simms. The resolution was adopted at tie recent meeting of the New a mile away. Her mother hopped into the car and followed. She said she could see Sharon only by the child's blue dress, the gray pony looked like a "roll of barbed wire." Sharon's first words after coming to rest on the ground were "mother, happened? What happened?" Sharon was taken to a doctor and treated for bad bruises, shock and a severely strained neck.

The pony had a broken hoof. Mrs. Weron said the airborne pony and girl passed over three fences and. a road before lighting on the hill. She said Sharon had no scratches her body.

Four buildings on the Weron farm were blown down. The barn was moved off its foundation, but the house was not damaged. i Connellpy 24, of Webb AFB, Big Spring. Tex became the state's 137th traffic victim when he was killed in a wreck near Carlsbad. The sports car in which he was riding hit a cattle guard at high speed after missing a curve and was split in half.

Connelley suffered a broken neck- when thrown from the vehicle. The driver, Gilbert Alexander Keav 22, also of Webb AFB, Ws liurt. Al-C Larry D. Perkins, 23, of Coolidge, and stationed at Holloman AFB, was killed when a military vehicle overturned 10 miles south of Cloudcroft. State police said since the accident occurred on a militay road it would not be counted against the state's toll.

The driver of the military vehicle was A3-C Keith Baldwin 20, of Coatsvllle, who suffered minor injuries. LAS VfiOAS, N. Paeheeo, son of Mr. and of the Tecoiote community death Thursday bencftth a hay tffl ed as crew utbti fork to stack hay on the Pacheso farm, PMCTS; Week Holiday Deaths 155 In 28 Hour TOUGHEST Twenty-five thousand doI- City Police List Various Offenses Two 18 year olds and a 18 year old youth were arrested Saturday in the investigation a gun. theft.

The two are being held, by. Curry, officers and the father's custody to appear before the district attorney Tuesday. A man was arrested by police in a Clovis department store Saturday and charged with shoplifting A woman was sentenced to pay a fine of $15 for vagrancy and a man was fined $15 for drunkenness by Police Court Saturday. There was one arrest of a Mexican on charges of illegal entry into the United States. Colored man, picked up early Saturday morning at the Santa Fe railway depot, is being held by authorities for investigation.

A 21 year old man is being icld by authorities on charges ol landling a deadly weapon in a threatening manner. It was reported to police that someone allegedly broke into the jrease rack building of Max Meadors Motor Co. where new cars are stored at night, but that nothing was taken. Repqrtedly stolen was a brown eather coin purse containing $17.50 icjonging to Christine Fenning. There were three arrests barges of drunkenness.

on Catholics Riot BUENOS AIRES, July hundreds of Argentine Catholics staged their first demon- tration since the June 16 revolt, 'hey marched from the Buenos Aires cathedral to the Santo Domingo Church three blocks away, vaving handkerchiefs and chant- ng 'long live Christ the King" nd "long live Catholic Argentina, "'here were no incidents. Anthony Eden Approves British Plan To Be Proposed To Settle Cold War By K. C. TIIALKR LONDON, July 2 -UP- Prime Minister Anthony Eden Saturday approved British plans for a three point "package- cold war settlement to be proposed in the nigh- stake negotiations, with the Russians at Geneva. Informed sources said the three- point plan provides for German unification, linked with arrangement for disarmament by phases and Locarno type guarantees against aggrssion on Germany or Russia, Eden discussed final arrangements with Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillnn in his country residence at Chequers before MacMil- £n's departure Sunday for the Council of Europe session in Strasbourg.

Re-Unification Most Important Informed sources said the British blueprint centers around German re-unification as the first and mos essential step toward ending the cold war. Failing this envisions a limited disarmament settlement with the Russians, the sources said. The British proposals will bfe certed with American and French plans by a Big Three co-ordinating experts group in Paris next week. Foreign ministers of the United States. Britain and France will put their final seal to the master plan in Paris July 15 just before the Geneva Summit parley three duys later, officials said.

Meeting is Set Ju 'y 16. they will inform NATO members at the Council of Ministers meeting in Paris of their over-all plan for the talks with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganm and Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov On July 17, Elsenhow- er, Eden and French Premi- er Faure were expected to go over their Joint plans at a Geneva informal meeting on the eve of the start of the Summit talks. High emphasized Saturday there can bo no ef- fective''security arrangement so long as the Gerjijan problem ic- malns unsolved.

It should be the centerpiece of a vorder settlement on disarmament and European security, they added. The West will go to Geneva igreed the reunificnt'on must be aased on free all-Gorman elections and that a future German government must have thu free choice of allies and alignments. Informants said that if unifica- lon efforts fail the West would 106 Are Killi On Highways By UNITED PRESS Millions of Americana clowl the highways for the long JJ Fourth weekend and the trail death toll mounted at what coi be a record-high rate. A United Press count some'l hours after the holiday began I 9 p. m.

Friday showed 106 trf flc deaths, 18 drownlngs, one del In a plane crash and 30 misci laneous deaths for a total oMB TheilOBth traffic death last ye was not recorded until rold-rnot ng Sunday, indicating this yi toll was climbing far faster 1954 when 324 persons we Wiled. The all-time high for- hree-day July Fourth holiday 358 in 1952. After 22 hours of last year's day, 84 persons had been killed ol he highways. Last year's traffl toll was 324 with the all-time his tragic 3SB In 1952. Ned M.

Dearborn, safety councl president, urged "every driver, his alertness." Predict 380 Deaths The council predicted that 3 persons would die on the highway during the holiday. Hot weather tended to boost mber of cars on the road. Michigan, the state auto club at traffic would set a new high, said the record traffic jam i duced speed to a minimum was cutting traffic accidents. I Soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., WOT! hown movies entitled "Coffin ol "heels," "drunk driving," 'traffil with the devil" and "wantol murder" before they were issue! their weekend passes. Hot, muggy weather gripped two-thirds of the Widely scattered showers werl forecast through the holida period.

Ninety-degree weather was coir, monplace, and many points lii Co! prado 'and Texas reported, 11 degree readings. The hot wewther lured milllOhl to beaches, picnic grounds and ba parks. President and Mrs. EfsenhoweJ began the holiday weekend Frldaf by celebrating their 39th weddind anniversary, playing host to thl White House staff with a picnic ai their Gettysburg, farm. The, they headed for Camp David the Catoctin Mountains.

seek "at least some agreement on Sast-West disarmament," ranging mm a "standstill' in the arms to a comprehensive arms cut. 'Investigate Before You Invest 1 Admonition To Local Homemakers "Investigate before you invest" the admonition now being passed on to Clovis householders- by city officials and the Chamber of Commerce in regard to itinerate peddlers, photographers, and other house to house canvassers. Signing any agreement or making down payments can prove very costly when dealing with an unknown or unreliable peddler, they point out. July 4th'Play Day'Is For All Kids From 'Six To Sixty' T-vt Fourth of July Play Day is be ng sponsored by the i i Chamber of Commerce for all kids Plane That Set Endurance Record On Way To Smithsonian Institute for 9 to the youngsters 10 a.m., courtesy By JOHN W. FINNEY WASHINGTON, July 2 The 'Ole Miss," a high winged monoplane that set a flight endurance record of more than 27 days 20 years ago, made its last land- ng here Saturday.

The historic plane was headed or the Air Hall of Fame in the "mithsonian Institutions air museum. At the controls for the final land- ng was Fred Key of Meridian, who, along with his brother. Al, piloted the plane in the air 658 hours and 31 minutes in 1935. Al, now a colonel in the Air Force tationed in Bogota, Colombia, was at national to see the plane Difaum i iu oce me uia (Sen BUSSEU. Page 8) in for the last touch-down.

Fred had taken off Friday from Meridian, spent the night in Atlanta, made one unscheduled landing in Winder, to repair a broken fuel line, landed at Wihiton- Salem, N. to refuel, and finally landed at Washington national airport at 3:10 p. m. cst. Fred, sun-tanned and red-eyed, said the flight was 'OK, just a little trouble." 'It was a little slow," he said of the plane which cruises at about 160 miles per hour.

Fred said he was "a little sad" to give up the ship. It has been mighty good to us," he added. "It has been a good old airplane." The "Ole Miss" circled in the bright sunlight over national air- port escorted by two L-l9s observation pianes of the Mississippi National Guard. Perfect Lauding The plane, glistening in the clear sky, pealed off and slowly coasted in for a perfect landing. The plane, which had ben lying around in barns and virtually forgotten in recent years, was specially reconditioned for the final flight.

On its side was an inscription noting that the Key Brothers "took off 12:32 p. m. June 4, 1935 landed 6:06 p. m. July 1, 1935." Their record still stands.

Back then they used air refueling to stay aloft and had a cat walk around the engine so they could do maintenance work. from "six to President Willard Davis said Saturday. The Play Day events will get underway on July 4 with movies from of the Lyceum Theatre. A bicycle safety film and a cartoon will be shown. Registration will be held from 1 to 1:45 p.m.

for the bicycle road-e-o which will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Mitchell street between 7th and 10th. Students from the first through ninth grades are eligible to participate. A parade will then form and proceed out 10th stret to Sycamore where the Jaycees Softball is located. Contests will then oe staged for the next two hours, ncluding a watermelon and i eating contests, hog calling and greased pig catching contests.

The Fourth of July Play Day will also feature a Little League game Tom 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. and a game running from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Climaxing the entire day's estivities will be a fireworks display at 9 p.m.. Davis announced. (See JULY itb Page It is only through the cooperation of every Clovis citizen that the.

1 city's solicitation ordinance can effectively enforced. This was emphasized by both City Manager Marvin Haas and Neil Durham, chairman of the chamber's civic committee. They also pointed out that unless the proper authorities are notified, neither the city police or the City Hall office is aware that these transit peddlers and solicitors are operating in Clovis. Before buying or placing an order with an itinerate peddler, photographer, salesman, magazine solicitor or other type of transit peddler, they advise householders to ask for their city license permitting them to operate here. Both the city manager and Durham emphasize that no outsider is supposed to come into Clovis and start operations without first purchasing a permit from the city.

They must buy a license to do business in Clovis, they point out, just as every established Clovis business firm does. The public, whether contacted in the downtown or residential area, should call the city police department immediately any itinerate solicitor or peddler attempts to sell or secure orders for something without the proper city license. Both chamber and city officials remind the citizens of Clovis that it is only through their cooperation Traditional Independence ceremonies were planned both ai home and abroad. In Rome, th American colony prepared for i bigest blowout ever. No.

6 Brake-Light Stickers Expired The New Mexico State Pollcfc Saturday warned all persons drlv-1 ing automobiles with New Mexico plates and the No. 6 brake and light stickers that they expired! July 1. I "Actually, 1 it was noted, brake and light stickers with the! tug 8 on them expired during thel month of June and persons have obtained new ones durinzl the month." State Police reported Saturday that Tuesday they would startl checking cars for the expired! stickers. They could not get to chore earlier in the month for! Chief Joe Roach has assigned allf his officers to the highways in effort to keep down traffic! fatalities over the Fourth of July weekend. Lyndon Johnson Has Heart Attack WASHINGTON, July Sen.

Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) suffered a 'moderately severe" heart attack Saturday and will bt out of the Senate for the rest of this session. The Senate majority leader visiting friends in Virginia the heart attack occurred. He taken to Bethesda medical centfu where the medical staff reported; "Sen. Johnson has had a erately severe heart attack.

His condition at present is considered serious. He will be confined to hospital for an unknown period of time." that the City of Clovii can pro-j Tne hospital staff and Sen. tect them from unethical many times illegal operators. They urge John Q. Public to "investigate before you invest." soa himself said he would not back in the Senate for the rest of Draws Unprecedented Support From Pravda COW WW lm battle ro w- the fust time such Sl ute-j Although the Communist news- Eisenhower's tejnw th, Pravda'a nrnlM of A coll uf meats have been published in So- disagreed with By KENJSKTU BttODNE MOSCOW, July ent Eisenhower drew uuprere- ented support Saturday from newspaper.

Pravda editorially praised Mr. iaenhower for his news confi-j. last Wednesday on Pravdn's praise of the American chief executive was an overshadowing development in the Kremlin's "peace offensive' tnd new look foreign policy. It followed a remarkable and unusual dismay of objectivity by Soviet newspapers in handling the President's news state- fun Sn 8 EiteSw.r's marks, without comment or tven usual "allegeds." They even included such statements as those about the "satellites" and their lack of freedom. as well as the remark about the "riddle" of who actually ruos the Union.

viet newspapers. This factual presentation was followed by the Pravda editorial Saturday which praised Mr. Ei- Although the Communist news- disagret'd with the Prtsi- deui's view on the satellites, it said: "Soviet public opinion accepts with satisfaction what Eisenhower Ws dsire the session. Johnson had visited with Sea, Walter F. George Saturday afternoon before departing fojr Virginia at 2:25 p.

in. cst. After he arrived in Virginia by automobile, Johnson began to suffer around bis heart. A local diagnosed his ail- tisenhower statement that it Is ment as a heajrt wndition, and 'iiectssary to use peaceful, not pro- was immediately to the vocative methods' and that it Is ical center at gelheda in aa am. necessary to repudiate the slogan balance, Soviet people! The public relations otftcw at would like to believe Eisenhower's I said Johnson "wa.g ad? proposal to change the slogan coldimitted to the hospital at 8:99 p.aa, war to the slogan battle for peace cst He had suffered a Es 5 ir vocative metbodh.

"Soviet publtt- opioioii welcomesjcold war." 1 Todays Clovis News-Journal Lists Tuesday's IWIaM)ay tolate.