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3 COOD MORNING! It's too late now for those who didn't vote Saturday to express regrets. The ballots have been cast and counted and the winners chosen. Try to do better next time. THE WEATHER: El Paso and vicinity partly cloudy Sun. day, afternoon, evening showers.

Satur day's temperatures; 91-70; mean, 81; normal, 81. Precipitation: normal, since July 1, since Jan. 1, 3.50. fun Luud Wtr TM JlMoeiated Pruf MP Tht tniled Pri fttPt international Nrwt Mervle ONS) Wembtr tl Audit Bureau of Ctreulatto. 76th YEAR No.

211 EL PASO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1956 96 PAGES IN 7 SECTIONS PRICE 15 CENTS JtllCKS, easo 71 inner Pdi win; 171 if I II asoans ravor u'ainei, it Meet In off aniel, Yarbo rough Will Housing Rutherford Wins Over Blanton Rcfei'eiiduiii El Paso Election Returns Defcaled Bean Victor; Davis, Ward Top Opponents By ED ENGLEDOW Timei Cilf Editnr Incumbent El Paso County officials came out ahead in Satur Vote tsv 2 10 i Senator Takes Commanding Lead In Primary By ASSOCIATED PFKSS Price Daniel, the senator who says he'd rather be governor than President, Saturday night took a commanding lead in the Democratic primary race for governor, but it appeared a runoff was certain. Who would be in the runoff was still a question, with more than half the votes counted at midnight by the Texas Election Bureau, an unofficial vote tabulating agency organized by newspapers. El Paso voters Saturday defeated the proposed public housing issue by a slight majority. The proposal called for construction of 300 additional units here. Final tally from the 55 boxes With 10 of the 19 West Texas counties reporting complete re turns, J.

T. Rutherford early Sunday appeared to be on his way back to Washington with a better than two-to-nne defeat over Bill Blanton for 16th District congressman. where voters were qualified to ballot on the issue was 7,769 to Complete and incomplete returns from all the counties gave (37 Out Of 60 Precincts Complete) For Governor J. Evatts Haley 264 W. Lee O'Daniel 1.072 R.

Yarborough 3,870 R. Senterfitt 88 Price Daniel 5,376 J. J. Holmes 126 For Lieutenant Governor Ben Ramsey 4,945 C. T.

Johnson I A. M. Aiken Jr 2,247 John Lee Smith 547 For Congressman at Large Rutherford an edge of 27,061 to Blanton's 12,713. day's Democratic Primary. 6,929.

The opposition took a narrow In their home county, Ector, Rutherford's margin followed the lead in early reports and held it Sheriff W. O. (Jimmy) Hicks and veteran County Tax Assessor-; Collector R. R. Deason soundly drubbed their opponents.

The County's state legislative delegation remained intact. Incurn-'bents John E. (Ned) Blaine and Maud Isaacks were victorious. overall trend, with 6,772 to 3,647 as 33 of the 38 boxes were complete The race was closer in Midland 1 Frjri Hicks defeated Attorney Carroll I But Ralph Yarborough, the former Austin district judge with a distinguished legal and civic record, was Daniel's nearest opponent, County, with Rutherford leading by only 3,939 to 3,315 in complete returns. The congressman's great throughout the tabulations.

I Local real estate agents and builders opposed the issue strongly and secured signatures on petitions to force the election. The issue was supported by local church groups and labor organizations. Following is the vote by precincts: PUBLIC HOUSING r. I 4 hf A iff i 'Smith and Deason downed Countv i Commissioner George Carpenter a large majority. I Blaine won out over Tom C.

(Walker and Miss Isaacks defeated Anita Blair, former representative. I In the major state races El Pa-soans gave a thin majority to Sen. In late returns to the Texas Election Bureau, Daniel had est victory apparently lay in Crockett County where he led 96S to 321 in complete tallies. West Texans favored Price Daniel for governor, with Yarborough 331,350 votes. Yarborough had i 241,267.

Running in third place was in a not-so-ciose second ana For Against IT. O'Daniel third. Close behind was Haley, with trailing competitors 220 284 Holmes and Senterfitt. Lee O'Daniel, the ex-flour salesman and ex-senator and ex-governor, who came blazing out of re-i tirement to stump the state with all his former fervor. He had In a Times compilation from seven counties complete and five 182,764.

incomplete, Daniel had Yar borough O'Daniel Price Daniel in the governor race, Ben Ramsey in the lieutenant governor's race and Martin Dies in the race for congressman-at-large. Daniel led Ralph Yarborough by a slim majority. W. Lee O'Daniel ran third. Ramsey was trailed by A.

M. Aikin holding a sizeable majority. Dies maintained a lead over Bill Elkins, Dallas attorney in the statewide congressional race. Haley 3,111: Senterfitt 636, and 33 96 60 87 77 92 36 62 36 112 92 56 Holmes 345. Complete counties Bill Elkins 3,486 Martin Dies 5,132 For County Chairman Woodrow Bean 5,800 Ben Turner 4,152 For Congress J.

T. Rutherford 7,614 W. W. Blanton 2,722 For Education Board Ben R. Howell 7,538 T.

J. Pitts 815 For Representative, Place 1 Maud Isaacks 7,102 Anita Blair 3,049 For Representative, Place 2 J. E. Blaine 5,164 Tom C. Walker 3,598 For Tax Officer R.

R. Deason 8,111 George Carpenter 2,104 For Sheriff W. O. Hicks 9,153 Carroll W. Smith 1,254 For Justice Of The Peace Mauro Rosas 3,311 Texas S.

Ward 5,079 For Commissioner Dick S. Davis 4,138 Ales M. Salome 1,773 NO PREDICTION In late statements from the candidates, Daniel said he didn't want to make a prediction about were Glasscock, Culberson, Wink J. T. RUTHERFORD ler, Terrell, Presidio, Loving and day, but were complete for the Sierra Blanca area.

The commissioner's race for Precinct 1 showed a possible victory without a run off until more votes were counted Pecos. Of the incomplete tallies, Hudspeth lacked one box, and Midland had eight of 10. The Hudspeth County sheriff's race appeared to be going to Monroe Walbridse with 423 over Hears PRICE DANIEL Ed Love with 139 over Bill Apple W. 0. (JIMMY) HICKS El Pasoans gave a large majority to Rep.

J. T. Rutherford, who was seeking a second term. He took an early lead over Judge W. W.

Blanton and held it throughout the tab gate's 90. Yarborough said he was confident there would be a runoff between himself and Daniel, O'Daniel was busy watching returns and would Complete returns from Winkler Laws' 118. Returns had not been County showed incumbent George ulations. received from Dell City late Satur-1 (Continued on Page 8-A, Col. 7) not talk with newsmen.

Other vote totals in the gover County Chairman Woodrow Bean was returned to his post with a nor's race: J. Evetts Haley, the rancher-historian from Canyon, former House Speaker majority vote over Ben Turner in one of the hottest local contests of the campaign. 'X Put Arthur's Sentence Reduced To 8 Yeurs Reuben Senterfitt, Austin Dick S. Davis defeated Alex M. contractor J.

J. Holmes, 5,909. Salome to win the County Commis sioner post vacated by Carpenter. The expected heavy labor vote for Yarborough was barely able to keep the Austin attorney at par The 13-year-old penitentiary sentence imposed on Mrs. Patricia Arthur by the Juarez Third Penal Court was reduced to eight years CLOSE RACE 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 Saturday by the Chihuahua State Supreme Court, in heavily industrialized areas.

And the big cities were giving The race between incumbent 41 80 64 116 77 74 45 41 41 60 67 26 86 172 115 60 79 111 114 175 255 245 200 237 160 185 160 203 272 181 113 159 88 51 112 80 6S 69 178 379 377 95 256 213 172 178 260 224 190 286 154 43 7,769 Pitts Leads In Education Board Race Javier Alvarez, defense attorney for the former El Paso wait Justice of the Peace Texas S. Ward Daniel the margin in most in ress convicted for the night club slaying of her policeman boy friend and Mauro Rosas was one of the stances. Albert Arreola Jr. in Auguest, 1955, said the ruling had been handed closest on the ballot. Ward was elected to his first full term.

He down by Justice Carlos Uranga Jt Munoz, magistrate of the staiei had served in the office under appointment for about a year. 117 205 106 84 61 108 120 158 208 165 152 169 109 125 173 173 182 117 99 94 67 70 91 61 65 74 131 268 414 73 272 191 IS 156 .233 214 204 240 139 37 tribunal. LATE RETURNS Late returns from Harris County, which has a heavy labor vote, gave Daniel a lead over yarbor With Ben Howell pulling nearly Alvarez had appealed the 13-year At least one race in the County Puppy's Tunc IlilsKightlVolc Willi EP Voter as many votes in El Paso County as he did in the remainder of the sentence to the Supreme Court was upset by a surprise write-in ough, but the lead had changed In reducing the sentence, Judge district, Thomas J. Pitts still led drive. Uranga Munoz upheld the Juarez R.

R. DEASON RALPH YARBOROUGH the board of education, according Voters in Precinct 59. Fabens, wrote in the name of Bill Long, several times during tne nignt. Yarborough also trailed for a timt in heavily industriatized Jer to results at 1 a. Sunday.

Court ruling that Mrs. Arthur had, committed "An act of simple in Heaviest vote for Pitts was in giving him 159 votes and electing tentional homicide," and added ferson County, then pulled ahead the 13-year sentence was too se at 10 p. m. vere. In South Texas counties where ttior ana Miaianacount.es, where; him constable of Precinct 5.

He thevote ran nearly 100-1 in the two candldates whose Towell's name did not appear were rn f. allcf the ballot in these two counties. The-v J' wh0 HerP' a rn received 115 votes, and Pedro Es- Alvarez said he will appeal the George Parr is considered political Liberals Hold Finn Grip Locally Liberal forces apparently held a State Supreme Court ruling to the boss, the vote heavily for Mexican Supreme Court. Daniel in most cases. Parr had uii me VUUJli: trada, who polled Meanwhile he said he will file bv counties: the County for an "amparo" to allow Mrs.

Pitt! votmg throughout endorsed Daniel. At a late hour, Robert Johnson, head of the TEB, still would not Several voters were discussing how they had voted in the governor's race in Saturday's primary. One voter remarked: "I voted for Pappy (W. Lee O'Daniel). At least he can sing that's more than the others can do." Long Search Ends; Couple Reunited Arthur to remain in the Davalos firm grip on the County Demo make a prediction, other than "the sanitarium pending the outcome of the appeal to the nation's high County Howell Reeves 715 Crane 779 Crockett 574 Culbertson 441 Ector 107 El Paso 7,558 cratic Party machinery in precinct was orderly.

549 The turnout failed to come up 402 to pre-election predictions with 106 1 very few boxes recording ballots ll.OOOifrom 50 per cent of the qualified 815: voters. 244, El Pasoans were using voting conventions held Saturday. only thing I can say now is that it looks like Daniel might lead the ticket. No one can tell who will be in the runoff." The meetings were held at vot est court. Mrs.

Arthur has been in the private hospital for almost two months. She gave birth to a baby there last month. After t'v birth of the baby, she ng places at the close of balloting Glasscock 100 TOTAL 6,929 at 7 p. m. machines for the first time.

Most The issues at stake were not Hudspeth 311 Jeff Davis 200 Loving 5l olor-finn nirlooc mnnrfflfl thaf tho drawn so tightly as they were in took an overdose of sleeping pills 46 By BILL MONTGOMERY the May conventions when the lib in an attempt to commit suicide Midland 334 4.110 1.031 voters handled the machines well. There were only a few cases of minor breakdowns. Clinton Bryant, erals took control. Reports were 38.2 PER CENT Among other unexpected developments was the failure of Yarborough to lead in early returns from McLennan County, a stronghold of the liberal faction. At 11 p.

Daniel had 38.42 per cent of the vote, Yarborough 27.72, and O'Daniel 2198. At that time, I 10: I07 service man for the Shoup Voting Texans OK Refercndums By 4 To 1 Itr ASSOCIATED PRESS The three referendum questions i MAUD ISAACKS and Fred Valdez, Counis 141 President Relaxes Donald Rummans met his 1,096 Retha. again Saturday night, 'Presidio 343 It was quite a reunion. (Reagan 239 Rummans, 22, suffered a ous breakdown from fatigue and, Upton 514 malnutrition and was waiting forward 847 his wife, 17, in El Paso General Winkler 859 Hospital Annex. TOTAL 15,431 received at the County Clerks' office from only 23 of the 60 convention chairmen.

At least one rump convention was held when conservatives in Prprinrt lift meetintr in Ramona 1 010 maintenance man, were stationed 1,738 in Sheriff's Department radio cars 1.637 throughout the day. Reports oi 437,837 votes had been counted, (Continued on Page 8-A, Col. 6) out of an estimated Vt million Schooli boltcd and hed thcir own submitted to voters in the Demo ballots cast. On Jeep Ride Gettysburg, Pa. (UP) President cratic primary continued to receive a 4-1 vote of approval as returns Three men contributed to able to see him Saturday night.

Hospital Administrator Harry Payne gave permission for Sunday Times Index mounted over the state Saturday night. However, the proposals, which session, naming a slate of county convention delegates. A majority of the conventions adopted resolutions following a line set in the May precinct and county conventions. The resolutions pledged support Eisenhower, spending a long, relaxing week end at his rm home, took a ride Saturday in his jeep- the extraordinary visit; Probation were not on the ballots in at least tne one with the frjnge around the What prompted the co-operation between the Democratic controlled 81th Congress and President Eisenhower? Story of the work of this body is told on Page 1-B. Officer Capt.

John Fuller gave permission for her to leave the Detention Home, where she stayed Saturday, and Police Chief J. C. of Sen. Lyndon Johnson and Speak The President who is resting fol- receiving less man nan oi ine total vote being cast in the gov i 1 1 I- v' I JOHN (NED) BLAINE ernor race. The 10 p.

m. report from the er of the House Sam Rayburn. It praised them for their winning fight against the party's conservatives and pledged delegates to the ii'nint 111c au uu I 1 unit ill -wii- gress. was accompanied on also gave his sanction sight-seeing tour around his farm! eal' rom thf EPC'H by his nephew, Miiton Eisenhower Parkin lot t0 he Anne door- thp and a friend of vounP Eisen- small child-bride told a reporter: Texas Election Bureau showed that 297,854 had been cast for the school attendance proposal to state convention to support them. Lt.

Gov. Ben Ramsey was far ahead in his bid for reelection. He had 173,937 votes. Nearest opponent was State Sen. A.

M. Aikin, who had 99,391. John Lee Smith, former lieutenant governor, had 70.3G3, and C. T. Johnson, Austin insurance man, had 36,759.

FAR AHEAD Will Wilson, who resigned from the State Supreme Court to run for attorney general, was leading that race with 179,462 votes. His nearest opponent was Tom Moore, Waco district attorney, who had 132,300. Ross Carlston, segregation leader, had 36,759. Curtis Hill, who withdrew after ballots were printed, had 19.830. John White, the agriculture commissioner, was far outdistancing Jim Barber, former state Agriculture Department employe, and Bill (Continued on Page 8-A, Col.

4) bower's, Dr. Robe Weaver. 040 votes against; 297,201 votes had been cast for the proposal to The County convention will be held at 7 p. m. next Saturday in the 41st District Courtroom.

National convention tension is mounting, and the golden voiced kennters are working hard on their speeches to be presented in mid-August. For the story of the two men Democratic and Republican along with pictures, see Page 4-B. How does the public feel about making Ike's health a campaign Issue? How serious is his condition? Your answer probably depends on your party affiliation, Gallup Poll figures reveal on Page I3-A. Sometimes realistic, sometimes wildly romantic, America's art swings from literalism to abstract impressionism. For the story of the evolution of American influence in the art world, along with examples of the work being done, see Page 8-B.

Assistant White House Press Secretary Murray Snvdc- said the two strengthen laws against intermarriage to 68,514 against; and 289,501 young men "dropped in" at the votes had been cast for the inter "You'll have to forgive me if cry a little bit." The nurse opened the door and Retha went into the lobby. Donald! appeared out of a side room andj they ran together. In the background a television set played for other patients. After a minute the Rummans! beaan to talk, both at once, kind; farm and left soon after their ride in the "Ike and Mamie'" jeep. position proposal with 62,848 ASTOR MAY LEAVE HOSPITAL Elslnore, Denmark.

(UP) John Jacob Astor III may leave his hospital bed in a couple of days, against. Liulil Hnins HE'S AVAILABLE RECOGNITION Manila. A P) President Ramon has been reported. The 44- Tokyo. (AP) Japan and theMagsaysay says he is available Markets S-D Mining News 5 Himalayan kingdom of a for a second term.

He was electedlof, and mildly scolding each other year-old millionaire was hospitalized Sunday for observation following a heart disturbance. agreed Saturday to establish dip-president in 1953 for a four-year for the mixup which separated 6-A lomatic relations. term. 1 them for two weeks. Full On Citv A (race of rain spotted sections of lie ciiy about 10 p.

m. Saturday. rvpnrfmg a trace of rain included downruwn El Paso, Wash-iiuaon Park, Kern Place, Ft. Houlea-d, Upper Valley and Montgomery News In Review Obituaries 5 i-A TALK HAPPY But most of the talk was happy Very, very happy. 16th Congressional District Returns Mountain 'iew.

Scattered showers also dampened the cay mid-morning The two-week separation which began hen Retha came to F.I Paso with a serviceman's wife who was Amusements 7-lft-B Ann Landers 7-C Auto News 15-C I-A Backstage In NM 4-A Book Reviews 7-C Building News 11-C Camera News S-C Church News 10-C Classified 7-12-D Crossword Puzzle II-B Dog Talks 14-C Editorials I-A Fmily Post 2-C Everyday Event 6-A Farm-Ranch News ll-B Gardening Column I Make-It oursell Il Oil News 5 Patterns -C Pearson I-A Radio and TV Logs 7-B Spanish Lesson I-C Sports 1-4 Stamp News 8-A Stars Say 7-C Travel Column 12-C 20 Years Ago I-A Television Column 7 Vital Statistics 5-D Weather Rnumlup 3- Women's News supposed to take her back to the couple's home in Bakersfield, a FEWER BRACIROS Calif but didn't had ended. 713 "922" is.V i 9 "l35" Donald's epic six-day search 1 i. ft a a "307" "112 a la 233 78" 9G8 I a 671 195S 27 I 224 554 8,16 12,713 "63S" which left him broke, weak and I "43 7 Rutherford Mevico City. (AP) The Interior Ministiv said Saturday the move-neiii of hracerns into the United Slates has fallen 10 a trickle in the la.it few weeks. 1751 39.19 "3315 526 "3I0" 317 "254 6772 3647" 364 "l93" 4442 40s "l76 suffering from a nervous break down in I I Pasn General Hospita' Continued On Page I I-A.

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