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scoop ae O'BRYAN Serving the Brazos Valley for Eighty our Years No 119 Twenty Pages ia Two SectioM BRYAN TEXAS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 1959 NEA eatures VOLUME 84 says PTA TOLD Steel Companies Make New Offer Most usses But Union Will Label Cranberries jfa' If Tested JURY TRIAL CLEARS SUSPICIONS the plan Adenauer Ends Teamsters British Parley Ask Ouster CO Of Hoffa ROM NEARBY to A he in from Macmillan a summit meet considered only over all German tnat the Briton tested and contain ina killer ami musl favor jig was up when a worthless check the was that the her the Navy as an Instru oreign Policy" Mortgage Title Co for HA VA Conventional arm Loans TA 2 306 (AdvJ Blanket Of Snow WATERTOWN if teen inches of snow blanketed this city today Squalls raging inland off Lake Ontario dumped eight inches of snow in four hours adding to the seven that had fallen Wednesday night County jail after one check too many BOVINE BRA ON DISPLAY AT AIR TORONTO The better a milker a cow gets to ba tha more tha is' apt to become burdened Tha answer it on display hare at tha Royal Winter air It's a bovine brauiere made of sturdy waterproof canvas with webbings adjustable at tour points and "ooil springs to insure a snug fit It costs 32150 on by of JAZZ OR ROCK ROLL OR TEENS? i 9 LONDON iff West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today winds up a visit to Brit ain which has cleared away some of the suspicions between the two countries and strength ened tljd Western alliance for summit talks with the Soviet Union British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dropped his pet plan for an experimental disarma ment zone Central Europe which the West Germans fear ed would leave them defense less against Soviet pressure ADENAUER gave assurances Interest rate on conventional loans 6 at Bryan Building and Loan A aspection COLLEGE STATION The College Station United Chest drive total amounted to $16209 according to a report from (Dick) Hervey chairman this morning The Chest goal of $13150 was reached on the 13th day of the drive with additional' funds coming in to push tha collec tions over the top The final figure represents 123 per cent of the goal Hervey said HERVEY ADDED that as far as he knows this is the first time the United Chest drive has been completed in less than two weeks The drive opened on Nov 1 and was completed on Nov 13 indicates a broad er base of participation of citi zens from College Station than ever before" he said Hervey making the announce ment of the final figures also expressed his appreciation to the citizens of the area for their whole hearted support of the drive He also expressed his ap preciation to the three drive chairmen Angell Burgess and Irvin Lloyd An I COLLEGE STATION Rob ert Kennedy Senate rackets investigator took off from East erwood Airport last night bound for some Texas style hos pitality at the LBJ Ranch on the Pedernales River near John son City He will be a guest of Lyndon Johnson special plane met him at the airport following his 8 PM Guion Hall Great Issues address At a 3 PM press conference in the Texas Memorial Student Center yesterday Ken nedy made statement concern ing his future plans plan to continue working in some govemrnental he said I know exactly what it will be When asked what his plans would be if his brother Sena tor John Kennedy makes a bid in the presidential race he said will work io support my brother if he Bob book on labor rackets Enemy is to be published" by Harpers soon WITH THE PROS Dr Horace Bass and Dr Claude Hall of the department of his tory and government Col lege gave papers at the 25th annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association held re cently in Atlanta Ga Dr Nance head of the department also attended the convention Dr paper was on Last Year of the Civil War in and Dr Hall presented a paper entitled Up shur and ment on BRYAN COLLEGE STA TION The Wednesday morn ing low temperature was 84 and the high 58 according to the AA Communications Station at Easterwood Airport The Thurs day low was 29 and the noon temperature 59 SOUTH CENTRAL Partly cloudy warmer this af ternoon and in most sections to night Mild riday or fast convenient banking ser vice use the drive in window at City National Bank How art rock 'n roll dans doing in popular with teenagers that compared with jazz revival ists and other popular mus icians? Eugene Gilbert 'and his staff have made a survey the result of which may surprise you The poll is printed today on page two of the second section along with the weekly record pre ference poll WASHINGTON The gov ernment today approved a plan for making plentiful supplies of uncontaminated cranberries available for Thanksgiving Secretary Arthur lemming of the Department of Health Education and Welfare said lots of cranberries already tested and found to be uncontaminated may be marketed if they contain this statement: "EXAMINED AND passed by the ood and Drug Administra tion of the US Department of HealthEducation and Cranberries from lots totaling more than four million pounds already have been found to be free of tion from the weed notriazole LEMMING said worked out with representatives of the cranberry industry would: 1 Assure proper testing of fresh cranberries and processed cranberry products in all stages of marketing wholesale and retail before they are offered to the consuming public 2 Provide for approved labels which the housewife can look for to be rare the package can or bottle she buys is from tested cranberries gell headed the Texas Sys tem solicitation Burgess direct ed the College Station section and Lloyd headed the drive among federal agencies Hervey complimented depart ment and area chairmen and other drive leaders for their ef forts the successful campaign THE UNITED Chest commit tee will meet soon to determine the disposition of funds which exceeded! the $13150 goat Participating in the budget this year are Brazos County Hospital und Brazos Valley Crippled Therapy Center Brazos County Youth Counseling Service Bryan Col lege Station Girl Scouts Area Council Texas United und American Red Cross Texas Re habilitation Center Salvation Army Boy Scouts of America College Station Community House Inc College Station Youth acilities Committee Col lege Station Recreation Council College Station YMCA and the College Station Chest Charity und MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ABC Judge Barron will be devotional leader tomorrow morning for the Brazos County Prayer Meeting fol lowing coffee and doughnuts at 6:30 AM speaking of Ho diners there and at other Bryan restaurants ate by candle light for a time last night with out extra charge for atmosphere when city lights failed briefly Robert Lane Allen of Bryan is serving as president of Phi Eta Sigma national honor society for freshman men at North Texas State College this semes ter Allen the son of Mrs Edna Lane Allen 110 Rebecca St is a sophomore business major What with A Waldrop get ting ready to reopen right after Thanksgiving Beverley Braley setting up a location at Town shire and the Junior Shoppe substituting for the Collegiate Shoppe the worst of the cco nomic blow due to the Main Street fire seems to be over? artist Cecil address iias in he in TO Brazos County's 4 Livestock Judging 'team left this morning for Chicago where the team will represent Texas in the national judging contest Nov 27 Pictured here are: back row left io right Joe Novosad Milton Lightsey and Buddy rancis Seated are Jimmy Jones left and Charles Nichols Accompanying the team is Lloyd Joyca assistant county agent (Eagle 'Photo by Gene Dennis) CHRISTMAS COMING City of Bryan worzmen put up seasonal decorations along Main Street io be turned on in time to greet Thanksgiving Day visitors (Eagle photo by John West) that West Germany would operate in averting a trade war between the six nation Euro pean Common Market and the rival Seven" economic bloc led by Britain Both leaders agreed on general topics that should be discussed at an East West sum mit meeting: (1) Disarmament (2) The future of Germany in cluding Berlin (3) East West relations in general THE KREMLIN took its usual dark view of activi ties In what it termed an au thorized reply to interviews Adenauer gave to British news men the official Soviet news agency Tass accused the Chan cellor of seeking worsen East West relations which have been improving lately and to prevent' liquidation of the cold Tass declared that Soviet meaning the Kremlin are convinced that a German peace treaty will be worked out at the summit conference It repeated the standing the Soviet demand for a treaty with both German states or with either one wh ch wanul to sign The West so far has ipsised that only one peace treaty can be written with a reunified Germany EARLY IN his visit Adenauer got assurance that Berlin at ing would be as part of the and would not press for a separate agreement covering Berlin alone Kennedy Is lown To Pedernales Bob Kennedy made a strong impression on the 1800 people who crowded Guion Hall last night to hear him discuss labor racketeering in a Great Issues session he is a remarkableyoung man and if brother Jack is similar (he seems to be) no wonder he makes friends wherever he goes Kennedy vigorously corrected one impression he is not anti union He pointed out that the management of some big corporations were as guilty of corruption in labor affairs as Hoffa and his henchmen But he particularly touched the crowd when he tied togeth er labor racketeering TV quiz rigging in Korea and lack of public remorse over these episodes into a picture bf Americans failing to show the moral strength that had been ours for 200 years yet he is hopeful for the future SCONA will be along in a few weeks with a long list of important speakers on the cam pus uture Great Issues speak ers include Ernest Lindley of Newsweek on Jan 14 and former Rep Brooks Hays of Ar kansas on eb 28 Texas newest student publication is the Review actually the former Commen tator under a new name (It was originally the Battalion Maga zine many years ago) Among those on the staff this1 year is Richard Reiser of Col lege Station who wrote a high school column for The Eagle while he was a student at SA Richard has a story in the No vember Review reworking the aust theme in terms of today's college age generation NEWS Head coach Jim Myers of will address the annual football banquet for the Navasota Ratt Icrs Dec 8 The Rev Keith Nickle will preach the Thanks giving sermon in Navasota at a joint service in the new Meth odist sanctuary Wed Nov "25 THE UPPER ROOM There is a lad here who hath five bai ley loaves and two fishes (John 6:9 ASV) PRAYER: Dear ather help us to overcome our feeling of inadequacy for Thy service Help us willingly to bring to Christ and give to Him all that we aie able to bring In His name Amen! SHOPPING DAYS 'TOJHRISTMAS ouh ads I Hagerty Leaves ATHENS Greece 'White House press secretary James Hagerty and other members of an advance group making prep arations for President Eisenhow foreign tour left today for Rabat Morocco Check Artist Jailed Town A hot check Chenowith whose not given is being held Brazos passed Bryan The nassed Conway's clothing store Mon day" A suspicious salesman took his license number then traced the check He found that it was hot and called the Sheriffs Department The Department had Chenowith in jail Monday aiight He is believed to have passed several other hot checks in the Bryan area Investigation is still underway Typhoon Toll25 MANILLA 6P The death toll from Typhoon reda reach ed 25 today as delayed reports came in from storm stricken provinces Money Is Cause Of College Station Chest Drive Goes Over Top By $3059 WASHINGTON Godfrey Schmidt attorney for a group of rank and file members of the Teamsters Union Wednesday asked the ouster of Teamsters President James Hoffa Schmidt in a motion mailed from New York City to Dist Judge Dickinson Letts in Washington asked for Hof ouster on grounds that Hoffa deprived Teamster mem bers of rights guaranteed by the new labor law The motion further seeks Hoffa's trial charges previously filed Schmidt alleging misuse union powers TEAMSTER members bring ing the action are Andrew Bog gia Ed Mcarland rank Ken nedy Hobart Gale Joe Malloy Harold Will Thomas Manning John McGlynn John Olsen Steve Milone John McManus and George Becker All are ftonj the New York City area The motion accused Hoffa of consistent unwillingness to co operate with a three man board of monitors appointed by the court to regulate Hoffa's ad ministration of union affairs DALLAS What starts the most family arguments? Money said Leland Austin vice president of the National Bank of Commerce of San An tonio And he added well managed family pocketbook brings peace and contentment in the family Austin spoke today at the con vention of the Texas Cdngress of Parents and Teachers about a study of the effects of money management his bank made at the request of the Texas Educa tion Agency a year ago THE RESULTS have bcen de veloped into a study program for schools and other groups families to adopt a planned management of their money He said 98 per cent of the maladjusted students in schools come from homes where money management is an issue Con flicts tensions fears and inse curity result from lack of under standing money management he said THE STUDY also showed he said that 90 per cent of young couples seeking advice from professional counselors do so be cause they need a better under standing of money management State Sen Doyle Willis told the convention Wednesday might he advocates a new beer tax to pay most of the cost of a 3 point program for educational ad vances in Texas USE POSTAL ZONMIUMBERsE 29 Edsel Line Discontinued By ord Co DETROIT Iff! The Edsel day became the first casualty of the new automotive battle of the compact cars ord announc ed it will abandon the medium price car immediately Introduced only two years ago the Edsel never captured a market Slightly more than 100000 were sold Less than 100 have been built 'in the last two weeks as ord diverted scarce steel to its other lines In an official statement ord said sales of the 1960 Edsel mod el which looks strikingly like the 1959 Pontiac been particularly while response to all other com pany lines has been good Total 1960 model production of the Edsel has been approxi mately 2800 cars In all of 1959 only about 30000 of the cars have been built Rejects Proposal PITTSBURGH The basic steel industry today disclosed it had submitted a new con tract proposal to the United Steelworkers Union The union promptly announced rejection of the offer The proposal was submitted during secret collective bargain ing sessions between top indus try and union negotiators The proposal included provisions for two wage in creases ranging from 6 to 12 cents an hour depending on job classifications The first increase would be effective Oct I960 and the second a year later THE PROPOSAL reportedly would submit the knotty work rules question to a union man agement committee for a speci fied period of time and then to arbitration if no solution is worked out Industry sources' said the ac tual value of the package offer would vary slightly from com pany to company The work rule question has been one df the chief stumbling blocks during the negotiations which date back to May 5 THE COMPANIES want con tract changes to give manage ment more say over working conditions in the mills The in dustry previously offered to sub mit die question to arbitration Some 500006 steelworkers re turned to their jobs Nov 7 un der an 80 day Taft Hartley in junction after a 116 day nation Iwide strike The injunction ex pires Jan 26 The injunction specifies that woxkhe resumed under terms of the old contract It provided for an average hourly wage of $311 an hour THE ONION has been press ing the industry for a contract similar to one signed last month with the Kaiser Steel Corp Kaiser broke away from a solid industry front to sign the sepa rate agreement The union estimated the Kais er settlement at 2214 cents an hour over a 20 month period The contract provides for insur ance and pension improvements in the first year with a seven cent hourly wage increase in the second year THE KAISER contract also i provided for a joint union com pany committee to study work ing conditions in the mills but it made no provisions for arbi tration The new industry proposal re portedly limit committee stuck ies of the work rules question to a period of less than a year but more than six months AS REPORTS of the new pro posal came USW President Dav id McDonald reportedly was away from the union's interna tional headquarters at' Pitts burgh Conrad Cooper chief indus try negotiator was in Pitts burgh This would indicate that negotiators are not meeting Admits He Killed Girl But Why? PALM SPRINGS Calif Investigators say they have a statement from Tord Ove Zep pen ield detailing precisely how he bludgeoned a redhaired Hollywood divorcee to death But they have one unanswer ed question: Why? still1 seem to un derstand why Sheriffs Lt Ed Brown said Wednesday night He said the moody 21 year old son of a former Swedish olym pi diving and swimming star probably will be arraigned to day on a murder charge He is accused in the slaying of Lil lian Lenorak 42 year old film cutter HER BODY was found on a desert road near Palm Springs Nov the day Zeppen ield was reported missing The youth was arrested Hermosillo Mexico Monday Brown said the youth told him he know the woman and did not molest her sexually Woman Gets Gems Cash Boys ound BUALO YiffVA Su preme Court jury Wednesday night named a 65 year old wo man as the rightful owner of jewelry and $9500 in cash found in a field by three boys But Mary Panek who won the suit still had to settle a claim by the Erie County Wel fare Denartment "THE MONEY and jewelry were found in a paper bag in a field eb 1 by the boys who were hunting rabbits The boys were James Weig lein 11 Roy Anderson 14 and Otis Montgomery 13 Tliey con tested Mrs claim which led to a jury trial The Welfare Department said Mrs Panek had received about $8000 in welfare funds during the five years ending in 1957 Mrs Panek and the depart ment agreed to a compromise by which she would pay county $5000 if the money awarded to her MRS PANEK testified every weekend she left money the field near home when she went shopping She told the court she distrust ed banks She said she had no money when she applied for' welfare aid in 1952 and that the $9" 500 had been given to her by her children HR I T1 A ww AZITWI PRIO PER COPY 1 HE DRY All LAlLi IuAVLIS ar Norman Thomas Still Socialist At Age Of 75 NEW YORK The old war rior of American socialism Nor man Thomas turns 75 riday And still doing what he has done most of his life bat tling against poverty injustice and war and speaking out for the dignity of man what makes life worth he says About 800 persons prominent in American life attended a din ner Wednesday night to honor the trim white haired man with gentle eyes and resolute face the irrepressible rebel In his long career Thomas suffered six defeats as his par presidential candidate Senate Majority leader and Mrs Lyndon Johnson quietly celebrated their 25th wedding annivenaryai their ranch home near Johnon City Tex Nov 17 Tli Senator and hi wife are shown reading congratulatory tele grams at the ranch (NEA Telephoto) "Wrayil Al bHB hL a va J' SK vm KT ''S w5'' x' hOiiyWiii'ilftiiTililiili 4 IS.

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