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For All Departments Dial 2-5454 he ernon aily ecord Partly Cloudy Warmer Friday VOL. 121 (A-P) Means Associated Press VERNON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961 FOURTEEN PAGES WEEK DAY 10c Military Action Is Secret As Crisis Over Laos Deepens 04 CEN TS A POI) IS Waggoner ion uys GRAND second year in a row Dennis Streit, of Mr, and Mrs. Ernest Streit of West Ternon, showed the grand champion fat steer at the Wilbarger County Junior Livestock show. He sold It last night to Paul Waggoner for 94 a pound, a total of Two Vernon Youths Repeat With Top Fat Steer Honors For the second consecutive year, I ry animal that took grand cham- Ewe Lambs Bobby Diltz, first; Dennis Streit and Otto Obenhaus, pionship and Don Roman was sec- Bill Jacobs, second; Bobby Diltz, ITT. Vernon students, took top hon- ond for reserve champion.

Ken- third; Kelita Ann Nowlin, fourth, ors wi the fat steer division at heifer was bred by his fa- Southdown Aged Ewes Bobby Wilbarger County Junior Livestock ther, C. W. Gfeller. Don bred his Diltz. first; Don Roman, second; Show in the judging Wednesday own reserve champion.

Edwin Becker, third; Greg Bag- Tawny McLaughlin won the ley, fourth; Bobby Diltz. fifth, grand championship in the Ewes, Other Breeds Lee Cas- class and Terry McLaughlin show- tleberry, first and second; Eddie afternoon. Dennis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Streit of West Vernon, repeated as grand champion wmner and Otto, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Otto Obenhaus, again was awarded the reserve championship. Steer was bred by Bill Stout of Frederick and W. H. Obenhaus of Vernon was the breeder of reserve champion.

These boys walked off with the awards in competition with 39 other exhibits. Kent Streit. showing an animal ed the reserve champion. Charles Cobb, assistant county agent for Lubbock county, judge of swine, sheep and beef praised highly the quality of animals that Wilbarger County 4-H and FFA boys and girls conditioned for the local show and was particularly impressed by the efficient manner in which the exposition was organized and conducted. Gene Robertson, a dairy breed- bred by David Faulkner of Snyder.

1 er Burkbumett, judged dairy was awarded the grand joe Tom White, farm championship in the at. lamb reporter for Radio Station KWFT, class. Bobby Diltz showed the reserve champion, bred by Charles Spencer of Elgin, Okla. Bobby also won the grand championship in the breeding ewe judging and received as an extra bonus, a registered Southdown Ewe presented by Hamilton Choate of Young County. ewe w'as BRED BY Gaylord Copen berger of Gary, Okla Wichita Falls, judged the rabbits.

Trophies, cash awards and plaques, all financed by Vernon Chamber of Commerce, wall be presented by Doug Brown, chairman of the Agricultural Committee, at the Awards Banquet beginning at 6:30 p. m. Thursday under the sponsorship of Vernon Junior Chamber of Commerce. The names of the winners of plaques for The reserve champion trophy, showmanship and cleanest pen or for breeding ewe was earned by stall will be announced for the Lee Castleberry showing an ani- first time at the banquet, mal breed by the Gary A. Following is a list of ribbon win- Kelita Ann Nowiin won the tro- ncrs; phy for the giand champion ram, Breeding Sheep showing an entry bred by Char- pvams Kelita Ann Nowlin, les Spencer of Elgin, Jerry first; jerry Judd, second; Kent Judd's ram.

bred by David faulk- streit, third; Mike Price, fourth. ner. took the reserve champion- J---------------------------------------------------ship. In beef heifer competition, Larry Thompson was awarded the grand championship. His heifer was bred by Henry Payne of Chattanooga, Joe Smith with an Angus bred by Keith Berry won the reserve champion trophy.

Kenneth Gfeller showed the dai- Home Town By JERRY COFFEY Reminder: Tomorrow is the last day for voting absentee in the cow' lot bond issue election Tuesday. This is a very important election for the future of Vernon, not onV ir. its immediate goal but as a symbol of community action. If you have a vote, fail to use of course, you plan to vote wrong. JAMES E.

DOAN, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Doan, 2110 Wanderer, has been advanced to electrician third class in the U.

S. Coast Guard. A 1957 graduate of Vernon High, he stationed at Galveston. THERE WILL be a shower! at Pearl Street Baptist Church Friday at 7 p. m.

for the W. G. Crites family wrhose home burned last week. lost a friend reported. MRS.

M. A. GILL1S, president-elect of the Vernon Garden Club, and Mrs. George Beavers HOME TOWN, Page 3) Hereford Woman Dies at Home (if Sister Here Mrs. Ora Potter of Hereford died at 2:15 a.

m. Thursday in the home of a sister, Mrs. W. T. McGann, 3201 Bismarck Street, whom she had been visiting about two w'eeks.

According to Sullivan Funeral Home, services will be conducted at Hereford at a time and place not yet announced. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Lonnie Jenkins of California, and Mrs. Lawrence Carlson, Mrs. Richard Barnett and Muss Maroline Potter, all of Hereford; three sons, Kenneth Potter of Clayton, N.

and Emmett Potter and Benny Potter, both of Albuquerque; three sisters, Mrs. Alma Weaver, Mrs. Mina Kalka, both of McLain, and Mrs. McGann; one brother, Leon Waldrop of McLain; and 13 grandchildren. Showers, third.

Fat Lambs Southdown Kent Streit, first; Bobby Diltz, second: Bill Jacobs, third; Edwin Becker, fourth; Bobby Byars, fifth. Crossbred, Heavy Joel Brice, (See STOCK SHOW, Page. 2) Chillicotlie onian Dies Mrs. Cleo of Chillicothe. 72, died in a Vernon hospital about 7:15 m.

Thursday. She a heart attack in her home in Chillicothe about fi a. m. and died shortly after reaching the hospital. Funeral services are being arranged by Ward Funeral Home at Chillicothe.

Mrs. was born Dec. 7, 1888, in Plantersville, Miss. She and E. W.

O'Rear were married in Quanah, June 3. 1929. She had been a resident of Hardeman County since 1919 and was a member of First Baptist Church in Chillicothe. Surviving are her husband, two sisters, Mrs. Floyd Wall, Mrs.

Lloyd Wall, and two brothers, R. T. Barnett and O. W. Barnett, ali of Chillicothe; and two stepdaughters, Mrs.

Lottie Wickliffe and Mrs. Claud Brown, both of Inglewood, Calif. E. Paul Waggoner offered the top bid of 94 cents per nound for the 1961 Wilbarger County Junior Livestock Show grand champion fat steer, owned and shown by Dennis Streit, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest Streit, and Ben Martin bid in the reserve champion, owned by Otto Obenhaus III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Obenhaus, at 95 cents per pound at the conducted at Vernon Stock Yards Wednesday nig'nl. steer brought, him a total of $977.60 Mr. Martin paid $793.25 for steer.

These boys were repeaters in that Dennis sold the grand champion and Otto the reserve champion at the 1960 show. Don grand champion fat hog was purchased by Wright Packing Company on a bid of $1.05 per pound and a total of $220.50. Reserve cham' pion fat hog, owned by Ronald Tirey, was purchased by Herring National The bid 70 cents per pound for a total of $40. The Waggoner National Bank bought Kent. grand champion fat lamb on a bid of $2,05 per pound, adding up to a total of $307.50 for the animal.

Bobby Diltz sold his reserve champion fat lamb to Coca Cola Bottling Company for $169. or $1.30 per pound. Ebner Packing Company of Wichita Falls set the floor for fat steers at $25.60 per hundredweight for hlue ribbon animals and $25 for red and white ribbon animals. The Wichita Falls firm also set the floor on fat lambs, offering $16.25. The floor on fat hogs was set by Wright Packing Company of Vernon at $18.

The total bid for the 120 Tni- mals sold Wednesday night added up to $27,940.13, The value of the animals based on the floor prices totaled $10,311.79. This means that the difference between the total paid by the buyers and the amount they could recoup at the floor price amounted to $17,628.34. The facilities of Vernon Stock Yards were furnished without charge by Mrs. Lorraine Kent, owner. S.

B. Middlebrook served as starter and Dr. Ralph Flesher was weigher. Jack Shelton was the auctioneer. The sales record is published below, listing the owner, the price paid and the buyer, in that order: Otto Obenhaus III, .95, Ben Martin; George Ann Obenhaus.

,65, First State Bank; Jerry Kahl, .55. Farmers Coop Elevator; Anthony Clayton. .50. Herring National Bank; Joe Barnett, .56, Martin-Lane; Reggie Kester, .57. Byrd Implement Marilyn Rainwater, .52, Mart in Lane; Eddie Showers, .90, H.

E. Wilson Grain Lydia Schoppa, .60, Waggoner National Bank; Carolyn Presley, .60, Herring National Bank. Charles Moeller, .51, H. E. Wilson Grain Barry Allen.

.59, Dabney Harvey Chevrolet Shelton Clayton, .50, Herring National Bank; Bob Kester. .57, Chillicothe Elevator; Tela Moeller, .68, Waggoner National Bank; Bill Riddle, ,65, Herring National Bank. Vickie Miller, .56, Vernon Cotton Oil Mill; Clifford Graf, .65, (Sep STOCK SALE, Page 2) VANDAL FLIES INTO HOUSE SAN ANTONIO Mrs. Ivan Whitt told police Wednesday she had a visitor who came in without knocking, but did plenty of knocking once he got inside. She said he knocked a hole in the ceiling, battered the walls in her home, knocked on her furniture and was eyeing a window when Patrolman Crenwelge arrived.

Cremvelge located the large, early-arriving woodpecker. He shooed the bird outside before it did further damage. Naval Movement Reported in East imiim Subscriptions Hiked Minimum annual membership in signed to bring revenues more in subscriptions of the Vernon Chamber of Commerce will be increased to $24 dollars for individuals and $36 for firms, effective April 1. The present minimums, in effect more than 30 years, are $12 for individuals, S24 for firms. The Chamber's Board of Directors took the action this week.

It was the first move in what is expected to be a general re-evaluation of membership policies, de- Pope Found Guilty; Gets ear Term WACO former banker and weekly newspaper publisher, who said robbing banks and making the employes pose in the nude fun while it is under a 25-year prison sentence. It took a federal district court only 35 minutes Wednesday to find LawTence Pope, 42, guilty bank robbery. Federal Dist. Judge Ben H. Rice promptly sentenced him to the maximum prison term.

Rice could also have fined Pope $10,000 in addition to the prison term but did not. Five defense witnesses went to the stand in an attempt to prove Pope insane w'hen he robbed the First State Bank of Thornton of $1,744 last November. But as the jury filed from the courtroom, Mrs. Pope broke into tears. She had testified that she believed her husband insane since he lost a job as president of a Central Texas bank.

attorney, Pat Maloney, line with the approved program of work. Chamber officials expressed the feeling that present subscription minimums are not realistic in view of the inflation that has cut dollar value more than 50 per cent since the minimums were set. dollars was all right for 1930, when a dollar was a Chamber President C. A. Deusehle said, 1930 dollars are worth $11.52 costs $18.50 just to service a he said.

The Vernon Chamber's annual revenue of $15.300 is the lowest per capita in the state for cities in the same population bracket. The chamber has approved a 10-point, five-year plan for City improvement budgeted at $24,106.60 a year. have the program and we have the manpower, but we have the Mr, Deusehle said. In addition to approving the dues hike, the Chamber Board unanimously endorsed the plan of the City and the Vernon Industrial Foundation for moving the North Texas Alfalfa Mill and Livestock Feeders, and urged members of the Chamber and other citizens of Vernon to vote in favor of the $100,000 bond issue at the March 28 election. The Board also went on record opposing ali the bills currently in the legislature pertaining to the health standards of out-of-s a milk.

Such bills would set up barriers to inter-state trade, the directors decided. I 1952. When he left office he ex. The Chamber group also expres- pressed a wish to have the rank sed support for House Bill 3. which back again.

Kennedy urged WASHINGTON One of the tightest secrecy blankets since the Korean War was thrown over official information about U.S. military forces today as the diplomatic crisis over Laos deepened. Pentagon public relations officials obviously were under the strictest orders against providing any information. Although dispatches from Hong Kong described in apparent detail the hasty departure of the big attack carrier Midway from that British crown colony at the approaches to Southeast Asia, Defense Department spokesman had only a crisp comment" when asked to confirm the report. There was similar reaction to all other questions concerning possible movements of sea, air or ground combat units.

The secrecy rule, however, appeared to apply only on combat unit movements or on the effort to help the Laos government by providing equipment and training personnel. Reports that the United States is rushing more material to Laos to assist that forces in the campaign against Communist- backed rebels were not denied. This included sending additional helicopters and maintenance personnel. Helicopters are highly useful in Laos where roads are primitive, airfields are few and poor, and forces in an engagement are usually small. The immediate aim of the Pentagon effort shut off official news of combat units seemed to include: To wait for the development in the efforts of the United States and Britain to induce the Soviet Union to enter sincerely into peacemaking efforts.

2. To mark time until President Kennedy makes an official policy statement at his news conference this evening. 3. To utilize one of the oldest devices keep the other fellow guessing. If Washington refused to comment officially on the reports from the far comers of the world, Soviet diplomats could not be certain how much is true and how much arises out of speculation.

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization nations could throw about 4,000 battle-ready troops into in a short time after any decision to help the royal government. Ike Regains Army Rank WASHINGTON. (JP Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower again has his old Army rank of five-star general. President Kennedy signed the legislation Wednesday and wrote to Eisenhow'er that it was reaffirmation of the affection and regard of our nation for Eisenhower resigned from the Army to run for president in gives cities the size of Vernon extraterritorial jurisdiction up to one and Pope himself both told Judge Rice before the sentencing that miJe beyond the city limts.

they had nothing to say. The government rested its case Tuesday. The trial was in U.S. District Court because the bank at Thornton, 45 miles southeast of here, is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Pope faces a state court trial later in a bank robbery the same month at Schulenburg.

The Schulenburg bank w'as not a member of the FDIC. In both bank robberies, the lone gunman forced employes to pose for nude pictures. Agents of the FBI said Pope told them he intended to use such pictures to silence testimony. prompt legislative action, and Congress quickly passed a bill to do it. Feed Grains Bill Signed By Kennedy WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy has signed into law his first major emergency program designed to cut down tremendous surpluses in grains used to feed livestock.

Kennedy signed the bill Wednesday less than two hours after the Senate, by a 58-31 vote, completed congressional action. The House earlier approved the compromise bill 231-185. Before Kennedy's signature was dry, Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman set the 1 aw's machinery into action. Their urgency was prompted by the spring is here and planting of this feed grain crops already has started in some sections.

Freeman immediately made public the national average price supports for feed grains com, sorghums, oats, barley and rye. All supports were higher than last Then Freeman flew' to Omaha to address today the first of three field meetings with Agriculture Department personnel. They will relay details of the program to farmers. Freeman said Assistant Secretary R. Ralph will address the second field meeting in Denver Friday, and Undersecretary Charles S.

Murphy will talk at the third in Atlanta Monday. Briefly, the law works this way: In order to get the new, higher price supports on corn and sorghums, farmers must cut their acreages for those grains at least 20 per cent. BODY FOUND IIS POISD outh Says Odessa (iirl Asked Hint To Shoot Her WEATHER Temperature readings for the 24-hour period ending at noon Thursday: Maximum 70 degrees Minimum 4 1 degrees Noon reading 65 Precipitation: To date 5.00 Same date last year 2.97 Forecast: Fair tonight, becoming partly cloudy Friday. Low tonight 44-52. High Friday 70 to 80.

ODESSA A high school boy kissed his former girl friend goodbye, he told officers, and then blasted her to death w'ith a shotgun she heki to her temple. Local police and officers of neighboring Winkler County tried today to get more information from Mack Herring, 17, about the death of Elizabeth Jean Williams, also 17. But Winkler County Sheriff L. B. Eddins said at Kermit, Tex, that Herring only answered, asked me to do Eddins quoted the youth as saying the girl had asked others to kill her previously- The boy was charged by Eddins with murder with malice Wednesday night after he led officers to a farm pond and pulled the pajama-clad body of his classmate from four feet i water.

She had a shotgun blast wound in the head. The pond where the shooting occurred was near the scene of the shooting, about. 30 miles northwest of here in Winkler County, i Young Herring was held in the Winkler County jail in lieu of $10,000 bond. Lead weights were tied to the body of Elizabeth Jean when Herring pulled her from the water. Her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John Williams of Odessa, reported her missing from her bedroom at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday. Odessa officer B. R.

Me Alpine arrested the youth in a classroom at Odessa High School, the same srhool Elizabeth Jean attended, Wednesday morning. CALENDAR THURSDAY 7:30 p. meeting, Pont Home. 7:30 p. meeting Vernon Lodge 655 AFA AM, Masonic Temple.

Official visit of District Deputy Grand Master. FRIDAY Noon Lions Club lunch eon, Wilbarger Auditorium. Trial of Priest Set in September AUSTIN (AP) The trial of Father John Feit, a Roman Catholic priest, on a charge of attempted rape was set today for Sept. 11 at 9 a.m. in Criminal District Court here.

The Edinburg priest, 27, was indicted in Hidalgo County on a charge of assault with intent to rape Miss Maria America Guerra, 20, a student at Pan American College in EMinburg, while she w'as at prayer in church. Selective Service Director, 65, Dies AUSTIN rn Gen. Paul Wakefield, 65, state Selective Seiv- ice director from 1949 to 1955, died here today. Wakpfield for man years worked for Interstate Theaters. A veteran of both world wars and the Korean War, Wakefield was one of thrcr Texans appointed by Gov.

Pat Neff to represent Texas at the burial of the Unknown Soldier of World War I. CONFERENCE SLATED WASHINGTON. Presi- dent news conference will be carried live by radio and television networks at 6 p.m. i EST today. CROWELL of the skits in the Crowell Lions Club Follies is about TV, hut with a twist.

Jerry Setliff, the cool cat second from left, is portraying uhile Ronnie Bradford, in western attire, is The giris are Elly Wehba, left, and Carla Driver. The big variety show, an annual event which benefits sehool organizations and Lions youth work, will be presented tonight and Friday night starting at 7 at the Crowell High Auditorium..