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scoop O'BRYAN Bryan's Family Newspaper Over 7,600 Daily he ryan aily agle Eightv One Years Serving the Brazos Valley Price Per Copy JC VOLUME 81 Associataci Prass BRYAN. TEXAS. TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1957 EIGHT PAGES NO. 213 The Wesleyan Service Guild of the First Methodist Church is starting out on an interesting I project. They have invited old-1 er necessarily Meth- odists to meet Wednesday! afternoon at 3 at Fellowship Hall of the church to form a i Fellowship" group.

This first program will feature a recreation program led by the Rev. Gene Neel, but later meetings may include hobby classes, book reviews, or whatever the group dfesires. So if you are an older adult with time on your hands, drop around Wednesday, regardless of your church affiliation, Easter Seal workers will be watrhinii Is Your on television eagerly on Wednesday. They have been alerted that an Easter Seal personality will be the one whose life is! portrayed. 4, O.

Donaho, Bryan, has been elected to the Houston Zone Buick Dealers Council. Donaho and Lou Hertenberger, Navasota, were named to the 10-man council by Buick deal-j ers of the southeastern Texas area. The zone council is the initial phase of a nationwide organization chosen by Buick dealers to discuss retail aspects Of the automobile business. Donaho, who is active in Bryan civic affairs and is president of the Camp Creek Water is the owner of Donaho Buick and is a candidate for the Bryan City Commission. Martin Dies and his wife visited the Eagle office yesterday, talking about the current senatorial campaign in which he is entered.

Currently a U. S. representative at large from Texas. Dies seeks to move to the Senate chamber in the special election April 2. DOTTINGS.

unusual Senate Refuses Herring By ED OVERHOLSER AUSTIN State Senate rejected by 11 votes today an effort to bring up a bill which would leave interim U. S. Sen. William Blakley in office. The measure by Sen.

Charles Herring of Austin sought to do away with the April 2 special election in which two Republicans and 20 Democrats are seeking to fill the unexpired part of Price term. The vote was on motion to suspend the regular order of business. Ten senators voted for it, 18 against it. It would have required 21 aye votes for adoption. The action left two bills bearing on the special election hung up in the Senate, virtually dead.

The other is a House-passed measure by Rep Joe Pool of Dallas that calls for a runoff if the high man in the April 2 election does not have a major-! ity. The Senate in effect killed it earlier by refusing to bring it up for debate. Herring urged the Senate to take up his bill, calling it a Whitley and -fair proposition. He Edge today were appointed to has argued that as the election Sends Ambassador For Middle-East Egypt Not rjn il 1 alks Moving In Any Troops CAIRO, Egypt. tJD Egyptian official said today he understood Egypt plans to send dated Schools July 1, 1957, suc- only administrative units into ceeding Dr.

L. S. the controversial Gaza Strip. He; who is leaving to take a simi- J. P.

Richards i i 11) i LonsoliiiateaBoard poree Names W. T. Riedel U. S. Views W.

T. Riedel will become superintendent of Consoli- EVACUATION CONTINUES An Israeli frigate, background, leaves Sharm El Sheikh for Israel while ashore soldiers and eauipment wait for a second ship as Israeli evacuation from Egyptian territory continues. (NEA Telephoto). Chamber Set For Guernsey Sale Sat. Com- now looms, a minority of the voters will name the next senator from Texas.

Blakley was appointed by former Gov. Allan Shivers when Daniel took office as governor, to serve until a successor could be named to complete term. Blakley is a Democrat Republicans are hoping to win Texas seat and thereby win control of the U.S. Senate. Consideration of the question Pictures of the coaching clinic I oi to up the: Herr- at Texas College were bU! was ior ord.e? taken bv Charles Carder, Eagle business.

Also set for special sports editor, inside White Col- order was a measure increasing bv natiual light without weekly workmens, the use of a flash, using an compensation payment. Agfa-Ansco Spcedex made in; has refused to concede West Germanv, with a lens op- deteat of his ening of 3.5 and Tri-X Kodak Commenting on the Senates film. Charles is a good photog- refusal to up the Herring rapher, as shown bv his bill, and My picture of the may get another chance Aggies in training, used last with my bill now. I don week. Not all sports editors can 1 try again, but I might I got 19 votes and need just 2 more.

If I can get it up. I think I can pass Under law now, the the Bryan Chamber of merce executive board. The announcement of the appointments was made by Jack Springer, C-C manager, during the monthly board of meeting this morning. Whitley, an automobile er, and Edge, head of an ice cream manufacturing plant, round out the executive board. Other members are Greene Buc- hanan, C-C president, and don it second vice president, The executive board is set up said he doubts the Egyptian government intends to move military forces there in the immediate future.

The official made the comment after Col. Salah Gohar, head of the Egyptian Palestine Department, conferred with Dr. Ralph Bunche, U. N. undersecretary general, on appointment of Gen.

Hassan Abdel Latif as military governor of ttie area. It was assumed Bunche was seeking to learn if some compromise might be worked out involving the U. N. Emergency Force, which moved into the strip last week when Israeli troops pulled out. that the annual baseball tournament sponsored by the athletic committee had been cancelled "because of lack of He said the only date Amer Egyptian army comman- available for the tournament conflicted with district track The Egyptian com meets and whittled the entry ment suggested the Egyptians list down to where it was not may be ready to permit UNEF possible to have the tourna- units to continue policing fron- ment.

tier areas, but insist on assum- J. W. Lassiter, who has de-j control of civil administra- veloped a multi-purpose fishing tion, lure, gave directors and guests1 Well informed neutrals a brief rundown on his opera- here reported the Egyptians lar post at Cuero. Riedel, who is now principal of the Consolidated Junior High School, was named by the Consolidated school board last night. A native of Yorktown, Texas, Riedel has been in the College Station school system for ten years.

Prior to that he taught in public schools in Mississippi. He has both a and degree from Texas College. During WWII he W'as B-17 pilot in Europe where he made 35 missions. He was discharged from the Air Corps in 1945 as a Lieutenant. Wrhile serving as principal in College Station, Riedel was in- tion here.

The invocation and benedic- do their own camerawork. NEWS FROM NEARBY Miss Patricia Waller, daughter! of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Waller high man wins a special elec- of North Zulch. has been elect-j tion without a runoff.

ed queen for Dairy Day May 10 in Madisonville. She will also represent the Madison County Dairy Association on Sidewalk Day, June 6. The Southwestern University Choir will be singing at the First Methodist Church in Navasota on March 17 at 10:50 a.m. John D. Richards, dean of the Southwestern University School ot Fine Arts, is the director.

Adm. Byrd. Polar Flier, Dies At 68 lit: cacvuuvc uudiu uu mi 11 bv the Chamber of Commerce given by-laws and consists of the three top elected officers and two appointed by the president. A. J.

Yeager, chairman of the agriculture committee, and Springer, reporting for Joe Vincent, chairman of the military affair committee, said that plans are complete for the Guernsey sale Saturday and the Chamber of Commerce's participation in the Spring Military Day at Texas College. Gen. Abdel Latif was closeted strumental in securing admis- todav with Gen. Abdel Hakim the Consolidated Junior High School to membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, one of the few Texas junior high schools to be admitted. In addition to his duties Riedel has served as the school fiscal agent in making application for Federal school funds.

Mr. and Mrs. Riedel and their two sons, Mark and David, reside at 107 Moss in College Station. W. T.

RIEDEL Dulles Says U.S. Firm On China Policy CANBERRA, Australia were in no position now to send military forces in any strength to Gaza. Almost no Egyptian combat troops have been moved into the Sinai Desert after their attack last fall, a neutral military observer said. Practically all Egyptian army installations there wrere destroyed by the retreating Israelis, he said, with the result that only a small tok-1 en Egyptian administrative unit PHILADELPHIA, March has been sent in to reoccupv the Fire apparatus and emer- area. Stand Bv For Plane ith Bomb Aboard gency crews were Claims That Saunders Knew Of ICT U.

N. sought to min- stand by after the imize the Egyptian move to reestablish administrative rights said the United States 'n Gaza. But U. S. and Israeli to its recognition: officials feared a serious new of Nationalist China and its op- crisis wa.s blowing up.

There cheen whitk game to BE IIELl) TONIGHT The Green and While squad football game will positively be played at Bronco Stadium tonight, according to D. Bunting, president of the Association which is sponsoring the annual spring training contest for Stephen F. Austin High School. Both track and field are in good condition, he said. The round the track parade and between halves stunts are also scheduled for tonight and will be performed unless a heavy rain should fall at the time.

For full details see the sports page. Hail In Hearae HEARNE (Spl) Hailstones as big as a quarter-inch in diameter fell here during a rainstorm yesterday, driving pas- sers-bv to seek shelter EA I II Elt BRYAN COLLEGE STATION AREA A maximum temperature of 77 degrees and a minimum of CO degrees was recorded at Farm Service department, Monday. The rain gauge measured a rainfall of .11 inches during the same time period. SOUTH CENTRAL Scattered showers and thundershowers Wednesday and in south portion this afternoon and tonight. No important temperature changes.

BOSTON (Jb Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd. 68, noted explorer who headed two arctic and five antarctic expeditions, died in his sleep at his home last night. His doctors said he died of a heart ailment brought on by overwork.

He was the over-all head of huge Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica in this International Geophysical Year, but his failing heart kept him from assuming on-the-spot supervision. His wife and four i were at his bedside when he passed away at 6:20 p.m. at his home at the foot of Beacon Hill. Byrd was the first man to fly over both the North and South poles and held numerous decorations, including the Medal of Honor for his explorations. Ho is credited with charting two million square miles of the surface previously unseen by man.

No one has ever equaled that feat. He laid the basis for possible American claims to a third of Antarctica. Red Cross To Select New Chairman The Brazos County Chapter, American Red Cross, will select a new chapter chairman at the regular meeting Wednesday at 4 p.m. The Rev. Paul Fullerton is resigning as he has accepted a call to another city.

Vernon Ostenby, field director for the Red Cross at the Bryan Air Force Base, will probably conduct the meeting, as Mrs. Ada Locke, executive secretary, is in Houston to be with her husband, Henry Locke, undergoing treatment at St. hospital. Yeager pointed out that the Secretary of State Dulles today a Ufi I Guernsey sale Saturday at Sanitary Dairy Farms on west Highway 21 is the first in Texas. 4-H and FFA club boys will) be permitted to buy heifers at the sale.

A barbecued chicken dinner will be served at noon, he said. Club boys and girls are now selling tickets for the event. Profits from the barbecue will be retained by the clubbers for their work. Springer reviewed the part of the Chamber of Commerce i plays in Military Day at He cited the breakfast honoring military and civilian guests from Washington, D. C.

and the tour of Allen Academy as the Chamber of part in the Spring activity. E. A. Willeford, here conducting the public relations course for the Chamber of Commerce, said that 138 registered Monday night for the opening night. The course will continue nightly through Thursday.

He pointed out that the opening registration was twice as position to giving seat in the United Nations to the Communist Peiping regime. Dulles made the statement to the SEATO Council of Ministers, which continued closed- door sessions of its third annual conference. The American secretary said he wanted to make the U. S. policy clear to America's allies in Southeast Asia, not to bring China policy before the SEATO Council ior debate.

he said, primarily from consideration to i national interest and. we be-; lieve, international States diplomatic rec- ognition of the Chinese Communist regime would serve no national he declared, would strengthen and encourage influence hostile to us and to our allies and further imperial lands whose independence is related to our own peace and was talk in New York that the U. N. Assembly might be called back into session. Bunche later was to see Deputy Foreign Minister Abdel Fattah Hassan.

The deputy is acting chief of the Foreign Office in the absence of Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, who is on his way home from the U.N. Mayor Take Test On Lie Machine WASHINGTON Terry D. Schrunk of Portland, swore today he never received payoffs from pinball machine operators, bootleggers and gamblers. alerted to tower at International Airport received a radio report that a plane was coming in a bomb Further details were lacking immediately. Police patrol cars also were rushed to the big airfield in Southwestern Philadelphia, one of the nation's busiest commercial air centers.

Negro Is Killed By Teen-Agers CHICAGO Palmer, a 17-vear-old Negro high school student, was beaten to death by a pack of white teen-agers. Palmer died of a skull fracture today in Holy Cross Hospital. A passer-by gave this account to detectives: Palmer w'as waiting for a bus last night when the gang of eight sauntered past him. They returned, surrounded him, and one of them smashed his head with a single blow. AUSTIN Cage, president of the defunct ICT Insurance testified last night that former Insurance Commissioner Byron Saunders knew of the plight almost a year before it collapsed.

testimony to a special House committee was cut off abruptly just as he was going tc single out a mysterious in politics. He said the figure received $700 month- 12 ly return for Pierce Brooks, president of the National Bankers Insurance Co. of Dallas, testified that a man prominent in Dallas political life, former Judge Robert Hall, received $40.000 from ICT last year after his firm was called in as a brokerage agent. Cage also testified about Hall. Cage said Hall was a member of the financial consultant firm of Bennett, Osborn and Hall, and got 5 per cent of an $800,000 figure ICT received from Brooks for the sale of a block of shares.

Hall was the 1956 Dallas campaign manager for Price Daniel and is a member of the State Democratic Committee. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON Eisenhower sent Ambassador James P. Richards to the Mid- die East today to discuss with the governments of 18 nations his plan for building new defenses against the pressures of Soviet communism. In a departure statement, Richards declared that the President had instructed him present and discuss his proposals to promote peace, freedom and economic well-being of the His first conferences are scheduled in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday.

The former chairman of House Foreign Affairs Committee said "discussions will be held only with governments who wish them, and we will not try to force our views upon others." His travel plans call for visiting 18 countries but his words made it apparent that if any country is not interested in discussing the new American as Richards called it, he will not go there. He said that authority granted by Congress in approving Eisenhowers Middle East plan enable us to undertake some new and more effective programs which will materially contribute to the strengthening of the is only Richards said, a new initiative such as the may not completely understood in first instance, and may even misinterpreted in some quarters. I shall try to remove such misunderstandings if any have GOOD PLACE TO GET ON THE BALLOT SOMONAUK, 111. If you're aiming at a political career, Somonauk might be a good place to start it. The ballot for next month's election will be blank.

No has filed for the offices of town clerk, town trustees of president of the board of trustees. Somonauk, on the DeKalb County line, has 600 population. Seven Freight Volcano Smoking At North Zule In Aleutians WESTON. Mass. UP Seven cars of a southbound A strong Rock Island freight train were many as ever registered before children for similar courses here, and said that attendance was the average for cities of similar He added that he expect- ALGIERS Ufi French ed about 175 to register before es reported 12 civilians and 36 the course ends Thursday.

Springer told the directors rebels were killed in Algeria in 24 hours. WASHINGTON UH Mayor i The witness told the officers Terry D. Schrunk of Portland, that not a word was spoken. said he called off a lie detector test on his denial of accepting a bribe because he felt the Secret Service had fishing expedition in administering the test. Schrunk was called back fore the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee following i his refusal to complete the lie detector test yesterday.

Schrunk claimed today questions proposed to be asked him were and concerned matters which he had not been asked in his earlier testimony (last week at the senate hearings. "NO Beck, head of the giant International Teamsters Union, waves off newsmen with 'no comment" as he was met by a swarm of reporters and photographers on his arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International airport. Beck, who has been in Europe, has been invited to testify before Senate racket-probing committee. (AP Wirephoto). George Parr Trial Halted Over Juror HOUSTON The second George Parr mail fraud trial was recessed abruptly today after Federal Judge Joe Ingraham discovered one of the jurors was not qualified.

Attorneys for Parr, eight of his Duval County associates and two banks he formerly headed asked for a mistrial. may be something to the motion by the defendants but I would like to have the matter Ingraham said. want to proceed if we proceed Can File For Cox's Seat AUSTIN have until March 20 to file in the special election to fill the House vacancy created by the resignation of James Cox of Conroe. Secretary of State Zollie Steakley set the deadline after Gov. Daniel said yesterday the election would be April 20.

earthquake apparently in the Aleutian Islands, was recorded at 6:30 a.m. (EST) today by the Boston College seismographic station. The Daniel Linehan. famed seismologist, said the disturbance was one of the strongest of about 50 recorded in the past few days. Quakes in the Aleutians caused damaging tidal waves in the Pacific which reached the shores of the Hawaiian and other Pacific islands recently.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska Walter Freeman, an airways station agent on Umnak, reported the outermost Aleutian Island is under a siege of volcano jitters. Mt. Vsevidof, a volcano dormant for 200 years has been smoking since big earthquake. derailed about 1:30 a.m. today at the North Zulch depot.

The derailment tied up the main line for nearly 12 hours before it was repaired shortly alter 1 p.m. Cause of the derailment had rot been determined shortly before 1 p.m., railroad workers said. The empty coal cars, near the rear of the train, left the rails near the depot, striking an automobile parked at the depot but missing the depot. The auto, belonging to the night station agent, Adrain Vess, was not damaged extensively, N. L.

Cryar. day agent, said. The Rock plush Rocket was re-routed through Bryan until the line at North Zulch was repaired and cleared. Repair crews were on the scene soon after the derailment. AIRLINER TURNS OVER IN persons were injured when this Eastern Air Lines plane, bound for Miami from Indianapolis, bounced to the runway and flipped over during a landing at Louisville, Ky.

Thirty-one passengers and three crew members were aboard the which skidded on its back 100 after turning over. (AP Wirephoto).