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PRICE PER COPY JC 7787 EIGHT PAGES BRYAN TEXAS RIDAY JUNE 28 1957 says 108 i IN WAKE to HEARING AT 7:30 A the owner and Mrs red ranklin fight high wind a ihay meh the ir ft 93 yesterday charges of mistreating at Lackland 100 Known Dead Many 1 I Dulles Denounces Gliina As Hostile The hope he did hold out was that the Chinese people to whom he said communism is as as to the people of Soviet satellites in Europe win eventually bring about the end of Red despotism in China New Jets In South Korea By Christmas WASHINGTON tfl A sub stantial nart of the 25000 to 30 000 Army and Marine troops now in Japan will be home by Christmas Secretary of Defense Wilson told a news conference the en tire number will be withdrawn from Japan by that time Some will be sent to other areas he said more towards He gave no details on where the troops would be reassigned Byran College Station Area Sweltering heat enveloped tMS area Thursday although the temperature did not rise above a maximum pi 93 degrees and a drop to a minimum of 76 de grees according to readings at arm Service department North Central South Central and East Partly cloudy and warm through Saturday with widely scattered after noon and evening thundershowT ers Raft To Ride Atlantic Waves BORDEAUX rance (fl A raft made of the trunks of seven pine trees set out across the At lantic today Its crew Guy Gouttepirfre and Rene Lescombe hope to reach South America in four of five months then explore the Amazon NEWS ROM NEARBY The future of the old city hall clock and bell at Navasota has been settled They will be in stalled on the northwest corner of the Masonic building at the intersection of state highways 8 and 90 funds having been raised by solicitation The August Horst Country Club at Navasota is looking for a new TT DmiWe friQvtnfir caretaker mtu YPsienAd to take a si tion at a new goix coiuu Houston RED ACE DEPT How did Association get in the story about the Bronco Association gfving a wall mir ror to retiring coach Jim Grif fin? We the faintest no tion but it seems to be some kind of alphabet trouble Arthur Miller Wins Half Of Court Battle WASHINGTON US Dist Judge Charles McLaughlin refused today to set aside the contempt of Congress convic tion which playwright Arthur Miller had attacked on the basis of recent Supreme Court rul ings The judge however set aside conviction on one of the two contempt counts on which McLaughlin had adjudg ed the writer gtiilty May 31 NO 308 scoop O'BRYAN I Copter In Search or Babes Afloat Praises Moslems WASHINGTON (fl Presi dent Eisenhower stood with dip lomatic representatives of 15 Moslem nations today and re affirmed determination to secure the foundations of a just and lasting The President spoke at cere monies dedicating the $1200000 Is mic Center recently com pleted on Massachusetts Ave David Glenn Webb of Park Place College Station one of The top carrier boys is among the 85 top Texas high school graduates to win four year Opportunity Award Schol arships to Texas College The list was announced today by Dean Armistead chairman of the faculty com mittee on scholarships Twenty four other scholarships were also given including5 one to James Kennon Martin of Bryan Roy Carpenter working in The advertising depart ment this summer has accepted a scholarship to Washington Lee historic college in Lexing ton Va SEOUL lfl Sleek supersonic American jet fighter planes ranged over South Korea today one week after the UN Com mand announced it was bring ing in new arms to match the Communist military buildup in North Korea But the US Air orce quick ly announced that the aircraft by the 1953 armistice would not be based in Korea They will fly over on flights and return to their Jap anese bases landing in South Korea only for refueling or in emergencies The first of the new planes sighted were four faster than sound 100 Super Sabre Jets which flashed over Seoul short ly after midday lights of oth er modem fighters and bomb ers were expected later The proposed budget sets a tax rate of $121 for the new fis cal year an increase of 19 cents over the $102 rate now in ef fect City officials say that the in crease is caused by the heavy requirements for bonded debt service during the new year The city will need to set aside $568456 for its share of bonded debt payments Most of this amount however will be paid from utility department funds since the major portion of the bonded debt is keyed as revenue bonds Tax bond requiremetiWinthe new fiscal year amount to $116 838 on the $1393000 outstand uig city tax bonds A total ox $451618 will be set aside for principal interest and reserve on the $6468000 outstanding revenue bonds Citizens will also have the op nortunitv to voice their views on the school tax rate handed the city commission The pro nosed rate has been increased 42 cents over the present $107 bringing the new rate to $1 42 The increase too was charged to heavy bonded debt require ments School bond principal interest and reserves are set at $190758 for the new year A total of $2 696" 500 in school bonds are outstanding The proposed city budget of $2568533 includes a budget of $2000059 for general operation of the city This is an increase in the general operating budget of $1989203 over the current year Income from taxes $nd other sources including the city owned utilities amounts to 646022 giving the city a cush ion of $77489 over total expend itures City commissioners have other business on the agenda tonight other than the budget hearing But priority is being given to the budget Major items on the agenda filowine the budget hearing in clude a request from the State Board of Insurance to repeal (See HEARING Page 8) The public will have its say if it wants to tonight about the proposed budget for the new fiscal year Although there has been no wide spread move among citizens to get a crowd to appear at the at 7:30 in the commission chambers at the City Hau the possibility that the city may abandon its municipal airport Coulter ield and the proposed tax increase likely will attract some interested persons The budget if approved will guide city operations during the new fiscal year which begins Monday Some furor was caused when it became known tot no funds were allocated in the proposed budget for Coulter ield indicating that the city was planning to abandon the airport However there has been no statements from city officials that the airport will be cut loose from the city and acres owned by Coulter reutmed to Saga of a book by Irene Taylor Allen of that Grimes County seat will published by the Green wich Press of New York City Subtitled proud story of a historic Texas it tells the story of the county and the town from the Indian fight ing days of a century ago to the present Mrs Allen has taught school in Anderson for 30 years The series of stor ies on Braios County churches has been broken this week but will be resumed The AlcM Presbyterian Church at College Station had been se lected and photographed but because of some confusion it was impossible to get the his tory of the church collected in time io make the deadline The series written by Virgin ia Syptak Eagle church edi tor will be resumed next' week The Bryan Daily Eagle Eighty One Years Seiwing the Brazos Valley wnnntrAN Mr and Mrs red ranklin tignx mgn wwa in backgrounds normally high and dry nntK swooi across photo) aaL riaM of Houston a former OR A JOB WELL DONL rirsr uemso Distinauished cadet at Bryan Air orce Base snows iwakuini Japan over a ing Cross he won for guiding a Navy Banshee a sateia bad wealher and was Year ago The Banshee was lost in the vicmit ne ase 9 disabled plane low on fuel Lt McBride flying an 86D AU weainer louchdown The faet ia eon downtown Bryan (Eagle Staff Photo by Don Biseit) PITTSBURGH A news round of price increases in the n'i rrt steel industry nm since rlflTI Bill 10 11941 begins Monday 1 Kill viu AV Steel Corp the GT (biggest steel producer and tra rivIUlML V1 Iditional industry pacesetter an 1 I nounced it will increase its ba HEPlUTl Inals I sic prices about $6 a ton 1 111 other steel finns expect (fl House SXmUar priC 8d Speaker Rayburn (D Tex) was Justments reported today to have given I tiR S'S? uJsnau foreign trials of GIs nmhp The Democratic sane nation 'finandal condition tion plus a view by some con 1 gressmen that the bill is politi 1 cally untouchable led to Pre I TTTnTnrrn dictions of House passage per NINE HUnDKED haps within the next two eeks TC The measure by Rep Bow MILE WALK IS (R Ohio) yon committee ap pro al 18 8 late yesterday amid J(JS1 WAJtilUUl renewed attacks on the Eisen 1 hower administration decision JOHN O'GROATS HOUSE to allow Japanese trial of Army I Scotland (fl William Mar Specialist 3C William Git Ieii a 53 year oId 'South Af ard rican last night completed a '911 mile walk the length of sx tti 1 I the British Isles Il look him Bed ire atal 35days I Merreti started his walk at McALLEN (fl Mrs Gladys! Land's End the southernmost Hatley 55 of McAllen died point John O'Groats is the Thursday when fire burned the! northernmost point bed in which she was I The Capeiowner said ha Justice Kelley said Mrs made the walk to train for the Hatley had been ill for some I 1OQ i 1 Bath io Londoa time He said the probable cause talking content July 8 of death was suffocation Only the bed burned 1 Public Has Its Say Tonight On City Budget By JACK BOWEN Eagle City Editor Lackland Airman Gets Three Months Seek Dangerous Radiating Pill MIDLAND (fl Air orce helicopters were brought into a pressing search today for a cap sule of radioactive matter des cribed as dangerous on even casual contact object disappeared yes terday afternoon from the back of a trutk belonging to the Western Co an oil well serv icing End Siege State BUENOS AIRES (fl Presi dent Pedro provi sional government today ended the state of siege over Argen tina and freed the first of an estimated 170 political prison ran RANCISCO Secre tary of State Dulles denounced Communist China today as an uncivilized hostile regime ana said would be to es tablish relations wouia the Redsv ability to hurt this country' and its friends In his first major speech on Red Chinese policy in three years Dulles rejected every ar gument for major change the iinitoH states uolicies of non recognition trade embargo and cultural isolation He said policies are based on the assumption that Communist rule in China passing phase" This country intends to do all it can to speed the passing Dul les said and ruled out argu ments that change would be promoted by diplomatic trade and cultural relations with the I are' occasions when I others and not we should pro i vide the Dulles said but he did hold out any hope that the Communists are 1 1 1 1 nn VO fnClRt aDOUl VU ISM selves ers SAN ANTONIO Tex tfl Airman 2 John Williams hntTinn 20 Concord imi ar poai convicted on course in drunkenness ana two basic trainees Air orce Base The Air orce court martial sentenced him to three months confinement at hard labor a to tal fine of $150 and a reduction in rank two grades to airman basic Williams the fifth tactical in structor at Lackland to be tried on charges of mistreating re emits this year had pleaded guilty to drunkenness but de nied mistreating the recruits Victims of the alleged assault Basic Airman Jerry Probst 17 Terrill Iowa and Louis Downs 18 Milton testi fied the attacks in their bar racks June 1 had left them more scared than hurt Condition Termed Mayor Vanca wai ported till in "critical con dilion" this morning his phy sician said Vance had a heart attack June 18 and has Men in Bry an Hospital since that time a a DtAU VOLUME 81 Complete wue nervwe EAR THOUSANDS DEAD ON COAST HURRICANE AUDREY HOUSTON An Air orce helicopter left today for storm ravaged Cameron La where 16 persons including five new 1 bom babies were adrift in three small boats tn marshlands The left on its mercy rescue mission about 6 am af ter the Cameron sheriffs office asked help is an emergency flash ed the sheriff this heli copter as quickly as possible a Knut an hour after the ter left the Tennessee Gas Transmission Co dis patched two seaplanes into the area ORANGE Death dealing Hurricane Audrey whose toll of death and destruction was so great if still could not be assessed was moving through mfiaaicclnni today Damage in Texas alone would run into the millions reports from cities in its path and vi rinifv showed The destruction came from the winds which reached 100 mph in the state high tides and torrential rainfall Thousands in Texas returned 1 to their homes after fleeing to high ground or to solid struc tures The Civil Aeronautics admtn istration control tower at mid i rramtv airnort in Jeffersmi County said six men from an offshore oil drilling ng naa oeeu nirkpd lin They were survivors from a two million dollar rig that capsized about 15 milts east of Sabine Pass At Port Arthur City Manager Charles Brazil said damage to was so ereat that it would require from 20 to 25 trucks a day or more to clean up streets Oddities were everywhere Near Galveston a custom made yacht was sifting on a prairie Wind and wafer push ed it and a $14000 boathouse some 500 yards inland North of Gilchrist two oil Kora about 105 feet long were sitting about a half mile off Highway 87 and 24 miles from the intracoastal canal Troops LAKE CHARLES La (fl I Hurricane death toll lelifnbed to the 100 mark today land a deputy sheriff said the I victims could reach 3 1 000 to 4000 I The greatest 'concentration of (casualties from the swirling wa iters was at the remote city of I Cameron where 87 were pre I Burned dead I The hurricane roared into theTexas and Louisiana coasts yes I terday and earlier reports said 18 were lost and presumed dead I Some of the victims were'dup llicated reports I Weary rescue teams probed I tb marshlands for victims or I survivors Some reports said I bodies were located floating I on debris miles from Camex on I Deputy Sheriff Vincentof Cameron Parish was among 1 40 survivors brought in on theCoast Guard boat Blue Bonnet (shortly after daybreak todayHe said he believed to4000 as the huge ti Idal waves swept inland I The report of 87 dead at Cam I eron by police radio came after I earlier tolls placed the at 18 ive of the 18were from Cameron I Although there was no of I ficial estimate of casualties I the Red Cross hare said they I knew of at least LOCO per I sens in the Cameron area who did not evacuate as Audrey I moved toward the coast I Ken Dixon managing editor I of the ake Charles 'American 5 1 Press said he believed the fa I talities would easily run into 1 several hundred I Coast Guard Chief Boat 1 TJaofar whn MOST HEAVILY Winds up ot 72 mpJu from Hurricane Audroy buffeted Port iloted boat that brought in Arthur Tex and damaged several building before screaming off Pent and the other survivors heavily damaged in th Port Arthur area is this Weingartens Supermarket 1 of YincenV1 (NEA Telephoto) (estimate: t0 teU how IdiAii So many neoole talk of losing families of six or nine" Another survivor on the Blue Bonnet an old woman count ing her fingers said lost all my six children The Red Cross disaster head quarters released a 12 name cas ualty list five of which er from the Cameron hurricane Abel LaBlanc a Negro whose two children are missing said a 15 foot tidal wave hit their big home There was still no report on the fate of 150 people believed I to have ridden out the storm in I Pecan Island about 50 miles I east of Cameron One Pecan Is lland evacuee said earlier I ery thing was" washed away and I just floating around" Steel Prices Going Up or Eleventh Time Missing Are i mHe lol I II I 'x'' s' 'X 4b Z' Zy I 'OP 'Wua i fM JL 'M JIMI la W' HH I JBv 'I a 4 I.