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For 411 Dial 2-5454 he ernon aily ecord Fair Warmer Through Tuesday VOL. NO, 58 (A-P) Means Associated Press VERNON, TEXAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1961 TEN PAGES WEEK DAY 10c De Gaulle Program On Algeria Backed By France's Voters PARIS Charles de Algerian program won the approval of 56.61 per cent of France's voters Sunday, short of the 65 per cent the president reportedly hoped for. Although abstentions cut the vote below the endorsement De Gaulle sought, there was every indication the president would consider the outcome in the three- State Police Quell Prison Try PHILADELPHIA (AP) State police with shotguns, advancing behind a barrage of tear gas, quickly quelled an attempted escape at the Eastern State Penitentiary Sunday night. Two guards were stabbed with makeshift knives, neither seriously. A convict received a skull fracture.

Fourteen convicts engineered the attempted break, state troopers said. The 14 opened the cell doors of hundreds of other prisoners in the maximum security block, apparently in a move to create confusion, but only 16 others left their cells. The 14 surrendered meekly in a prison garage, giving up nine hostages. One of the hostages had been wounded. Four of the cons were in guard uniforms.

The disturbance started shortly before 8 p.m. Warden W.J. Banmiller said guard Donald Carr, 40. allowed one prisoner to enter cell to return a guitar. Both jumped Carr, who was stabbed in the left shoulder.

He dropped his keys and ran. The two convicts then ran to the cell block door, unlocked it, overpowered guard Lt. William Righter, 59, and began unlocking all doors in the maximum security cellblocks. Righter suffered a superficial knife cut in the abdomen and was taken as hostage. The first two convicts, picking up a dozen accomplices and other hostages along the way, then approached one of the main gate guards.

told me they were going to shoot the guards unless I opened the said guard Tom McDonald. pointed a shotgun at them through the bars and they ran away." The 14 w'ent to the deputy warden's office, setting it afire, before moving to the prison garage, where they located a truck and to scale the wall. They had a rope fashioned from mattress covers and a ladder from the garage. day referendum as a mandate to push ahead with his program. De Gaulle has promised more self-government at once for the North African territory and its Moslem majority and a self-determination referendum when the 6-year-old nationalist rebellion is ended.

When counting in Algeria was halted for the night, 67.6 per cent of the votes cast were in favor of De program, but abstentions the result of a boycott urged by both diehard French colonials and the nationalist rebels running as high as 40 per cent in some of the territory's 33 departments. The vote went against De Gaulle in only one a hotbed of colonialism and rebel nationalism as well. De Gaulle had said he would consider an abstention as a vote against him and hinted he would resign if he did not get a solid endorsement. But Premier Michel Debre in a midnight TV appearance claimed a great victory for the government and said exultantly, "What a feeling of rallying, unity and strength the nation has shown, rising above those who I work to The Constitutional Council re- ported this vote in France: regis- tered voters 26,847,953, ballots cast 20,809,029, yes 15,198,714, no 4,996,507, void ballots 613,808 The yes vote in France thus wras 75.25 per cent of the ballots (See DE GAULLE, t) Cuba Moves Troop Units Into Havana Waterfront PROBABLY JAIS. 19 Kennedy Planning To Meet With Ike PRECAUTION IN French soldier searches the volumnous folds of a cloaklike outer garment for possible concealed weapons in front of a polling in the Algerian village of Dotiero.

Thousands of Algerian residents flocked to countryside balloting places to vote on the de Gaulle referendum proposing self-determination for the country. Filed Against Court Delays Integration in Georgia Case ATLANTA (AP) A federal judge who ordered two Negroes admitted to the all-white University of Georgia granted a stay today to permit an appeal to a higher court. The action by Judge W. A. Bootle came as Miss Charlayne A.

Hunter, 18, and Hamilton E. Holmes, 19, were at the university in Athens making final arrangements to errter the 175-year-old institution. The stay order will delay their enrollment with 7,400 white students until the opening of the spring quarter late in March. It gives the segregation-minded Georgia Legislature, which opened a 40-day session today, a chance to strike out provisions of laws banning the use of state funds in operation of an integrated college. The more than 250 legislators whooped and hollered for several minutes when word of Bootle's stay action reached the legislative halls.

rp stay takes off troop Movement the immediate said Frank S. Twitty, House floor leader. gives the legislature time to study and think, and act ju- Cattle theft charges have been filed against a Wilbarger County man, Dewey Holder, and his Jerry Don Tennell, both of Harrold in District Court at Wichita Falls. The suspects sold six stolen calves and had more in possession at the time of arrest, Wichita County officials stated. The six head of stolen cattle were sold for a total of $158.12, w'hich is bekw the market value.

Two calves belonging to Leonard Drennan of Wichita County were recovered by Wilbarger County Sheriff's officers Sunday work- ing in co-operation with the I Wichita officers. The stolen cat- tie were found in a pen at the Holder home in Harrold, Sher- officers said, Allegedly, fhe cattle rustling began Wednesday when two cows were taken from the Donald Patton ranch, located near Electra. The two cattle were brought to the Vernon sale Thursday, but were sold outside the ring to an individual for $75, officers stated. Friday night and Saturday morning, rustlers acquired five more cattle, two from Drennan and three from Doc Preston, who is a neighbor of a Record reporter was told. Four of the cattle were then sold Saturday at the Burkburnett sale for $83.12.

The men gave oral confessions to Wichita authorities and are in Wichita County Jail pending the setting of a bond, wrhich had not been set Monday morning. Investigation as to the whereabouts of the cattle not yet recovered is going on by Wichita and Wilbarger officers. Tennell, 17, was living at Holders Harrold home at the time of arrest. Senior Status Turned Down For Del Mar Cited in Katanga LEOPOLDVILLE (AP) The pro-Lumumba rebels in Stanleyville today were reported moving troops into Katanga, the rich Congo province ruled independently by secessionist Premier Moise Tshombe. Sketchy U.N.

reports reaching Leopoldville told of Lumumbist troops arriving near the north Katanga town of Manono, about 150 miles from the frontier of Oriental Province, seat of the breakway regime that is demanding the return to power of ousted Premier Patrice Lumumba. The strength of the troops was not immediately known. Home Town By W. R. WEBLEI The following letter has been received from Mickey E.

Lemmon of Denver, in regards to a safety campaign conducted here some time ago by the Junior Chamber of Commerce: letter is somewhat belated, but, I feel it needs to be written. I would like to pay a compliment to your local Junior Chamber of Commerce. all stems from last Labor Day, when I w'as driving through your town in the early hours of the morning, on a trip from Denver to Dallas. My two companions and I had been driving since 10 the preceding morning and were quite as we approached Vernon, We saw flashing red lights on the highway by your courthouse and someone signaling us to pull over. We just assumed there had been an accident.

I had dreaded making this trip over the Labor Day weekend, for that very reason. seeing the lights, we w'ere afraid what we had feared. had happened. But instead, (See HOME TOWN, Page 2) At Athens, 60 miles east of Atlanta, Miss Hunter and Holmes were in the process of being enrolled W'hen delay order came. The quick action by Bootle brought a prompt announcement from Mrs.

Constance Baker Motley of New York, counsel for the National Advancement of Colored People, that his action will be appealed to the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals at New Orleans. The appeal to this spe appellate court will contest Bootle's desegregation decree. Bootle warned Atty. Gen.

Eugene Cook that there should be no delay in the appeal and ordered the university to post a $5,000 good faith bond. BULLETIN AUSTIN. source dose to Atty. Gen. Will Wilson said today he will formally announce his candidacy for the Senate Friday, The attorney general has been known to be seriously considering a bid to fill the long-term U.

S. Senate vacancy created by Lyndon election as Vice President. Wilson would the tenth candidate in the wide-open race. The special election has been set for April AUSTIN Texas Commission on Higher Education rejected today a proposal that Del Mar College of Corpus Christi be elevated to a senior college. The last legislature asked the commission to study the issue.

The staff report said there does not now exist a sufficient need for senior college status. The commission agreed to start on elevating San Angelo College to a fully state-supported four-year school. San Angelo College was established as a two- year coeducational community college in 1928 and became a public college in 1945. It was estimated that the school would have 1,400 junior college students by 1970 or 2,000 students if it became a senior college. President R.

M. Cavness made the report to the commission and said the school in a very satisfactory financial He estimated the replacement value of the school at more than $4 million. Backing the recommendation, Sen. Dorsey Hardeman of San Angelo told the commission CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) President-elect John F.

Kennedy was reported today to be planning another conference with President Eisenhower. It probably will be held in Washington Jan. 19, the day before Kennedy takes office. Word of this plan circulated as the president-elect arrived at Harvard University for a meeting of the board of overseers a supervisory group of alumni. Kennedy, a graduate of Harvard, is one of the overseers.

Before driving to the university from nearby Boston Kennedy wras urged to assert strong leadership and seek more money to promote world peace through American aid to foreign scholars. The president-elect also announced appointment of Newton N. Minow of Chicago, a law partner of Adlai E. Stevenson, to the chairmanship of the Federal Communications Commission. Kennedy already has had one conference, last Dec.

6, with Eisenhower. The president-elect said at the time that the session had been most helpful and that he might accept invi- talion to come to the White House again before his inauguration. Kennedy reportedly wants to discuss specific matters with the outgoing president. But he also is said to feel that a second conference on the eve of the new taking over would be a demonstration to the world of American unity. Expansion and more vigorous direction of the existing program of aid for foreign program of educational and cultural assistance to such the second step recommended to Kennedy within 24 hours for improvement of international relations.

The other step would create an experimental peace corps of talented young Americans to serve two years overseas in helping new and underdeveloped countries build institutions essential to self confident and effective During the presidential campaign Kennedy proposed exemption from the military draft for some of the male members of such a corps. This was criticized by his Republican opponent, Vice (See KENNEDY, Page 2) Mrst Baptist Calls Greenville Pastor Rev. Neal Jones, pastor of First Baptist Church, Greenville, was extended a call to the pastorate of P'irst Baptist Church, Vernon, by a unanimous vote of members in a conference called immediately following regular services Sunday night. Police Check Two Mishaps Local oflicers investigated two accidents over the weekend within the city limits of Vernon. A 1953 Plymouth driven by William Erving Sheridan of 2210 Stephens Street and a 1954 Ford driven by Joy Mcelwee Fincher of 2100 Bismarck w'ere in collision Monday morning at the intersection of Tolar and Yampa- rika, officers stated.

Damage was estimated at $150 total. Also involved in a wreck were a 1954 Chevrolet pickup driven by Roy Martin Shultz of Thalia and a 1958 Plymouth driven by Jearldine Parker Lance of 1814 Deaf Smith Street. The accident occurred at Wilbarger and Stephens Street and resulted in minor damage. In Corporation Court, a drunk in car was fined $50, a drunk was fined $15 and a charge of Aging Parley Told To Hear Every Opinion WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower urged delegates to the White House conference on aging today to develop every opinion no matter how- bitterly in an effort to provide goals for the country. In a brief welcoming address to the conference of 2,500 delegates in Constitution Hall, the President said that is what he understands conferences are for.

He said he hoped the four-day deliberations would bring out material on problems of the aging that Congress can use in its delib-! Rainwater, Earl Maddin Rev. Jones had accepted an invitation from the pulpit committee to preach at both morning and evening services Sunday and he was greeted at each service by an overflow audience. The local church has been without a pastor since the resignation of Rev. Jack Merritt, effective the first Sunday in August, to accept the pastorate of Ingleside Baptist in Shreveport. He had been pastor of First Baptist since Sept.

25, 1954. Rev. Jones has been pastor of the Greenville church five years. Prior to his acceptance of the Greenville position his pastorates had included Cockrell Hill Baptist Church in Dallas. He is a graduate of Texas Christian University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Rev. and Mrs. Jones are the parents of three children, two sons and a daughter. Buddy is 10 years old Betsy is eight and Jeffrey is three. Jack Hightower Is chairman of the pulpit committee.

Other members are L. E. Stamps, improper start from a parked economy of the state is pointing position brought a $5 fine to toward that area. 'another man. CALENDAR MONDAY 7:30 p.

meeting, IOOF Hall. TUESDAY Noon Rotary Club luncheon, Wilbarger Auditorium, 7:00 p. Com- mandery, Knights Templar, meeting at Masonic Temple. p. Legion meeting, Legion Hall.

WEDNESDAY Club luncheon, Wilbarger Auditorium. Club luncheon, Susie No. 1. THURSDAY 7:00 a Breakfast Club, Susie No. 1.

Club luncheon, Susie No. 1. 7:30 p. meeting. Post Home.

7:30 meeting Vernon Lodge 655 A FA AM, Masonic Temple. FRIDAY Noon Lions Chib luncheon, Wilbarger Auditorium. U. S. Begins Big Observance Civil Anniversary BV THE ASSOCIATED CRESS A nation once torn asunder by a Civil War officially opened the 100th anniversary observance of that tragic era Sunday with solemn pageantry and prayer.

One theme was dominant in the ceremonies: the nation had been able to reunite itself after the war. Both North and South paid tribute to the commanding generals of the rival armies that battled for four long years in the costliest conflict until World War II. Troops in full dress uniform stood under chilly, leaden skies in New York City while wreaths were laid in honor of the Northern commander, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, at his tomb on the bank1 of the Hudson River.

Civil he said, that the members of the twro armies were afterward able to work together to make this great nation what it is Above him inscribed in granite were his words: us have The U.S. Military Academy Band played "America the Beau- iful" while other wreaths were placed at the tomb in behalf of the nation, the state of New York, the city and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, an organization of descendants of Union army ofiicers. Gen. Robert Lee's efforts to heal the wounds of war were praised at ceremonies at the Confederate tomb in Lexing- ton, Va. The crusty old general's grand- Francis P.

Gaines, former son, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant III, chairman of the National Civil War Centennial Commission, placed the first of four wreaths in front of the tomb. most wonderful part oi Washington and Lee University president, said that dignity of Gen.

Lee, his tireless energy in behalf of tomorrow, and his faith in the future of this reunited country were the greatest ing elements in the pathetic postwar grandson hailed Lee as great and knightly American soldier and in a telegram from New York, and Gaines called the 18th president magnanimous The Civil War actually started April 12, 1861, when Confederate troops shelled Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, S.C. But President Eisenhower chosc the so-called of the incident to kick off the celebration, The of the was a Union supply ship en route to, Fort Sumter when rebel forces the harbor fired on it, on Jan. 8, 1861, forcing it to turn around and head home. Cadets of The Citadel re-enact the firing in Charieston today, using five 24-pound cannons similar to those used a century ago. The USS Orleans Parish, a Navy minecraft support ship, has been fitted out with mast, sails and paddlewheels for the re-enactment.

erations. He thus recognized a controversy that was raging even before the conference opened how to fiance medical care for the aged. The Chief Executive, 70 and about to retire from the White House job, laughingly said that he did not want to get too definite about this aged He said he was not going to express his own views, because they already are well known, besides not a "I applaud the the President said, and added he felt Congress did a good thing in asking him to call it. Apparently top government officials were attempting to ease controversy over charges made and denied that the conference has been stacked by the American Medical Association, insurance and business groups against a program of medical care for the aged tied to the Social Security program. Secretary of Welfare Arthur S.

Flemming, in his opening remarks, urged the delegates to act, regardless of the controversial character of certain programs, in; such a way that this disagree- ment not result in the nation finding itself on dead Those who have the respon- sibility for decisions, he said, are urged to make a decision so that th: nation can achieve agreed upon goals and provide senior citizens with inspiring and meaningful opportunity for M. Pybus and Wilson. Mrs. B. F.

Vernon Mother Navy Base Is Visited By Carrier HAVANA army units moved into waterfront today and set up military tents near the memorial to the battleship Maine in feverish preparations to repulse what Prime Minister Fidel Castro calls attack from the The semi official newspaper Revolucion in banner headlines said a aircraft had arrived at Guantanamo Bay, the big U.S. naval base in eastern Cuba. The U.S. Atlantic Fleet's Caribbean maneuvers, which will continue until the end of March, added to the invasion jitters. About .140,000 officers and men will take part.

In the fleet, in addition to the $90-mi 11 ion carrier, are three guided-missile cruisers and two nuclear submarines. The newspaper apparently referred to the rier Franklin D. Roosevelt, depicted as leading a flotilla of vessels which began annual maneuvers in the Caribbean today. A Navy spokesman at Puerto Rico said 130 fleet would be involved, hut fleet headquarters in Norfolk said the exercises broke down into 50 ships off the Caroll- nas, 22 in amphibious exercises off Puerto Rico and the visit of the carrier and its escort at Guantanamo, the last U.S. foothold in Cuba.

The Navy stressed that the maneuvers were planned long ago have no connection with the U.S. break diplomatic relations w'ith Cuba. But the flotilla is bringing twice as many men and ships to the Caribbean there were in last year's maneuvers. And it carried enough fire power, missiles and war planes to give strong support to the Guantanamo base if needed. The Navy spokesman attributed the increased number of ships and men to the fact that guided missile vessels are taking part for the first time.

The U.S. warships, from every major base on the Atlantic Coast, will be joined by Canadian, British and Dutch units, U.S. Marine! will practice amphibious landings on Vieques Island, 20 miles east of Puerto Rico. The U.S. fleet movements, la(See CUBA, Page 2 Mrs.

Belva Waller, 73, mother of Ballard A. Waller and Albert F. Waller, of Vernon, died at 7 a. Monday in a hospital in Frederick. She had been ill several months.

Funeral arrangements have not been announced. Born Dec. 6, 1887, in Tillman County, Oklahoma, to Mr. and Mrs Austin Perryman, she had lived for many years in Davidson. She a member of the Methodist Church.

Also surviving are tw'o daughters, Mrs. Vera Jones of Frederick and Mrs. Nadena Dawson of Bowling Green, Ohio; three sisters, one brother and six grandchildren, including Jo Lynn Waller and Julie Ann Waller of Vernon. Fuel Tanks Drop Over City DALLAS, Tex. Frightened residents of a Dallas suburb fled their homes Sunday when two large fuel tanks dropped by a Navy jet blasted five-foot craters near two residences.

There were no injuries. A Navy spokesman said the pilot, flying at 30,000 feet, did not release the almost-empty fuel tanks. An investigation has been ordered to determine what caused the malfunctioning of the release mechanism. sounded like artillery shells coming said Gil Bryan who lives near where the tanks fell. Several homes were damaged by flying debris.

Bitter Fight is xpected In House Speaker Race ARE URGED DALLAS lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called Sunday for vigorous Negro lunch counter sit-in demonstrations along with an economic boy- is that 87 of the 150 members of cott of several Dallas stores. I the House have promised to give W. J. Durham said talks be- him their votes when the secret his Negro Committee of i balloting starts soon after Secre- AUSTIN (API A bitter no- compromise fight for speaker of the House threatened today a considerable delay in organization of the legislature opening at noon Tuesday, Both Reps. Wade Spilman of McAllen and James Turman of Gober claimed victory' in their contest for the key House role in the leadership, most recent assertion 1 Seven anti the white Committee of have RATHER Temperature readings for 24-hour period ending at noon Monday: Maximum .49 degrees Minimum .................28 degrees Noon reading .........47 Forecast: Fair and a little warmer through Tuesday; high Tuesday near 60.

Five-day Outlook: Temperatures 4 to 10 degrees above normal; precipitation light toward end of week. tary of State Frank Lake bangs the gavel opening the biennial session. Spilman says that when the votes are all in, he will be the top man. He has called the victory claims of his opponent and says pressure has become While there was some insubstantial talk among members over the weekend about compromise, apparently the opponents will sweat out a showdown. Early arriving some of those who have publicly reported campaigning still at a fever pitch.

i The delay in organization that could result from the last ditch battle would grow out of the all- important committee assignments that the speaker makes. He names the chairman and committeemen, for example, of the House Revenue and Taxation panel where all measures to find direly-needed state money must first be processed. Likewise, the chairman and members of the Appropriations Committee which gives spending its first hard look depends upon who wins the speakership. Thus, in a session where taxation and spending are the vital issues in virtually all legislation, a slow start is almost certain. Organization of the Senate is less complicated.

Lt. Gov. Ben Ramsey is the top man there and without the involvement of a contest, no delay is expected. A meeting of the Legislative Council today is an important preliminary to much potential lawmaking. Interim studies have been in progress for months and subcommith es were reads with recommendations on a dozen or more topics..