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7'3-A rf uurae EVENING FAIR I i i I i WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT Byron VOL LXXVI NO 200 Auociatcd Preu (AP) ABILENE TEXAS WEDNESDAY EVENING APRIL 17 TWENTY EIGHT PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS PRICE DAILY 5c SUNDAY 10c Jordan's King Hides 1 it 1 Panel Approves Higher Tuitions 1 AMMAN Jordan UV-King Hus-pin in a broadcast to the nation today attacked Inspired from who are trying drive a wedge between me and you" 1 In an obvious reference to Communist subversive activities the King promised to strengthen internal position that army will be protected in its rear while it defends the nation agaihst external The King delivered his appeal as his new premier Hussein Fak-hri Khalidi safd efforts are continuing to create a federal union of Syria Egypt and Jordan of an economic and cultural federation is the first step toward Khalidi said that is what we are working In his first interview since he became premier Monday Khalidi declared he thought it would be a serious mistake if the United States opposed such an Arab union Khalidi said huwever that there is little hope for Middle East stability so long as Israel exists in its present form lived with Arabs peace-hilly for thousands of he said when men like (Premier David) Dcn-Gurion came on the scene with their poisoned ideas they created trouble between us There is no hope for peace and stability so lung as their altitudes and Ideas prevail among the Jews of Israel I know what solution can he found Naturally we want to throw the Jews into the sea or massacre them as Hitler did But there can be no peace or stability so lung as Israel exists in its present form Khalidi said he is certain the state of security in Jordan now is better than during the time the British controlled the country can say proudly that since Gen 1 Sir John Bagot) Glubb was removed we have maintained the efficiency of army and BECK AND CHIEF AIDE Dave Beck right president of the Teamsters Union confers with his chief aide Einan Mohn administrative vice president from Washington just before the executive committee began a closed door strategy conference in a Gaiveston hotel (AP Wirephoto) BECK ELATED Four Union Leaders Face Racket Quiz WASHINGTON iff) -Four union leaders linked by testimony of a Jrc convicted dynamiter with alleged terrorism in the Scranton Pa area go before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee today for questioning Committee ikies said they would be asked about bombings threats beatings and truck sabo-tabe of which the committee heard vivid stories yesterday tage of which tlie committee counsel said he hoped to question nil the men accused in testimony by Paul Bradshaw former Teamster official who testified he was double crossed after he had agreed to the for a house bombing Names mentioned in Bradshaw's long day on the witness stand included: Joseph Bartell business agent of Carpenters Local 281 Scranton Bradshaw said Bartell had given him orders that resulted in acts of violence to halt nonunion building operations Opponents of the truck load In crease protested that ita pas saga would lead to ruin for Texas high ways Proponents replied that the trucking industry paid 41 per cent of the taxes for construction and maintenance of the highwaye Advanced to final reading in thi House was the urban renewal act (IIB 70) It still faces third and final reading The measure would permit dtiei by popular vote tO' undertake renewal programs such as slum clearance with federal aid Only federal and city money would be Involved The companion Senate measure (SB 286) got an unfavorable report In committee there but was brought to the floor on minority report The House bill was completely revised and as approved on second reading was a complete substitute for the original Rep Don Kennard of Fort Worth one of the authors laid the bill has support -of the League of Texas Municipalities and of backers of the Green Plan to revamp the downtown area of Fort Worth Nothing could be better for the United Slates" he said to have a stable prosperous Arab world and the best way to achieve this is through a union of Arab states You became strong when your separate states formed the United States of America W'e likewise would like to have United States of eamsters Shun Ethics Hearing we Intend to Improve its efficiency in the he added In the Israeli sector of Jerusalem an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman declared last night the new regime in Jordan is a temporary and the lend is not in sight in a struggle for control of Jordan's Arab Legion is only another round that we have he said Hussein has had to retreat If you look at the makeup of the government you can see that it is only temporary because it consists of all the elements which have been fighting each other for the lest few months and more recently in the last few TODAY'S MARKET By DAVE CIIEAVEN AUSTIN UB-Bills to raise some of the cash needed to give Texas public school teachers better sala- rics have won first round victories jin the Legislature House and Senate State Affairs Committees yesterday recommended passage of companion measures H1B103) and SB 452 transferring one per cent of the permanent school fund to the fund for use In flnan-Ing the pay boosts Between (even and 11 million dulars income in the next biennium was the estimated yield from this source for the salary raises Also approved by Uie Senate Stale Affairs Committee last night was the House-approved measure (HB2C3) doubling tuition fees in state colleges foe more money designed to help pay for pay increases It was figured to bring in around 10 million dollars in i two-year period The teachers want a $399 average annual increase in the minimum salary Finding the money for it stands out as one of the remaining unsolved problems of the session Heavy Calendar The House worked until 11 am on a long calendar approving nine bills for submission to the Senate The House also scheduled another heavy calendar of local and uncontested bills today Stepped up work I schedule In both House and Senate the sud-deb flurry of action on teacher pay raise financing measures and other important bills indicated growing urge by the lawmakers to wind up their work end adjourn by May 7 within the 120 days suggested by the Constitution as the length of general session The Joint Conference Committee on Appropriations also worked un til nearly midnight last night Another of string of anti-integration school bills backed by an East Texas bloc was passed in the House and sent to the Senate yesterday It was HB 63 providing local option elections to decide whether or not a school shall be integrated It would not affect schools which already admit white and Negro students It wss the second anti-integration measure sent to the Senate by Die House The first (HB 32) would bar employment of any member of the National Assn foi the Advancement of Colored Feo pie by the state or any of its subdivisions The Senate has taken no action on it Fllihnsler Threat Senators oppbsing the Integra' tion bills have threatened to fill buster if necessary to defeat them Among major measures passed by the House yesterday was the COLORADO SPRINGS Colo W) congressional redistricting bill ere ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS Cypriot leader Archbishop Makes Entry Into Athens ATHENS uft Archbishop Ma karha leader of the Greek majority seeking union with Greece strived in Athens today 13 months of British on Ihe Seychele Islands Thousands of Athenians braved unusually chilly weather and gloomy aktes to cheer the Greek Orthodox prelate as he was driven an open car along the ropte to downtown Athens An imposing array of political church and military leaders Makarios at the airport and a long line of limousines shared his triumphal entry into city i Markarios was banished to the Seychelles by the British on grounds he was a leader in the EOKA underground violence against British rule He was freed detention April 5 but still is barred from returning to Cyprus The British hoped his release would lead toward a settlement of Cyprus dispute but Makarios said he will not negotiate on island's future until he is el lowed to return to Cyprus Britain has offered Cyprus in creased self government but the island's Greek Cypriot majority insists that Makarios is the only person who can negotiate for Lightning Kills Ft Carson Gi 1 NEW YORK UH-The stock market leaned to the upside in quiet early trading today Key slocks rose from fractions mony to around a point but there were board would do action speaks I'm happy what House Poises To Pass 8th Money Bill WASHINGTON (A-A vacation-minded House was poised today to pass its eighth major appropriation bill of the session The i Senate still hasn't acted on its nJirt one The House measure would pro-A4Ue IS5S73983S to the State and Justice Departments the federal judicial and the Information Agency for the fiscal year storting July 1 Ihe House which starts a 10-fiay Easter recess tomorrow tentatively approved the measure yesterday after beating down all but one attempt to alter money recommendations of its Appropriations Committee The single change cutting $7039938 from the Slate Depart' ment's funds for contributions to international organizations and conferences could be reversed on a roll-call vote today It carried yesterday by a 76-59 standing vote on motion of Rep Gross (R-Iowa) The $108889967 chopped from the total by the House and its committee boosted to 1V billon dollars total appropriation cuts voted this year by the House from presidential requests for neatly 15 billion in new appropriations The bill makes these allotments: State Department $173342783 a cut of $54371767 Justice Depart' ment $227855000 a cut of $6800-000 judiciary $38562050 a cut of $2218200f US Information Agency $106100000 a cut Of $37900 000 special International programs $10900000 a cut Of $7600' 000 Three efforts to cut allotments for the USIA still further failed by non-record votes Four attempts to whittle down State Department allotments also failed There was no effort to alter allotments for the Justice Department and the courts some lasers After a fairly active opening the pace slowed There was no special activity in any division But Lukens Steel which was up yesterday as the most active stock was traded vigorously -today At one phase it was down around a point on profit-taking but erased this loss and established a major fractional gain Gulf Oil added around 3 points to Its rise of yesterday There have been stock split rumors concerning this stock The newi background continued mixed Personal income was reported at a record annual rate ut steel scrap prices continued cclining Prospects for a three-day weekend added a note of caution UJ5 Steel General Motors and American Telephone showed little if any change Standard Oil (New Jersey) eased Douglas Aircraft advanced around point Zenith more than 2 Smaller gains were made by Chrysler Goodyear Boeing Phelps Dodge American Cyana mid Westinghouse Electric and Royal Dutch Small losses were taken' by Ford Goodrich Consolidated Natural Gas and Santa Fe 'WHAT MY FAITH Philip Brady business agent of Electrical Workers Local 81 Bradshaw also Inked Brady with orders to halt work on some jobs including a road construction job by nonunion crews employed by Wiliam Ryan Clearfield Pa road builder 1 Anthony Bonocuse business agent for Local 130 Hod Carriers Building and Common Laborers Union Scranton Edward Po-zusek Wilkes-Barre Pa housing contractor4 testified yesterday Bonacuse warned him would a smart thing for you to be the boys play rough when he went to Scranton to build home The home subsequently was bombed in 1954 Big 3 Protests Russian Activities In Berlin Sector BONN Germany The Western Big Three today protested to Russia against mil tar) activities in the Soviet sector of Berlin They said maneuvers by several thousand armed factory workers East Berlin last Saturday were of a and constituted an infringement of the four-power status of Berlin In similar letters to Georgi Pushkin Soviet ambassador to East Germany the Bonn ambassadors of United States France and Britain laid they did not regard the maneuver! "as neces- sary for the maintenance of pub-c They added: can be no justification for such provocative measures especially in a city with the four-power status of In Berlin still occupied by the victor nations of World War II postwar antimilitarism regulations still apply The Allies maintain that the arming of Communist factory workers Is a breach of four-power agreements Osorio Says Hers Willing For Lie Test AUSTIN (D-Insurince Commission Chairman John Osorio inya he is willing to take a lie detector test in his row with Gov Price Daniel over his Senate confirmation and insurance commission reorganization Rep Jerry Ssdler of Percila who brought -the hiss out into the open with a letter to Osorio asking him a series of questions about the confirmation suggested that both Osorio and Daniel take the test This came after their ver sions of what happened showed wide variations Osorio said he would take the text if Daniel would Daniel1 himself didn't answer but his executive assistant Jake Jacobsen issued (hit statement: "The governor has no further comment His statement today speaks for Uself He will not descend to the level of personal attacks and political sideshows designed entirely to divert attention from the urgent need for a cleanup and reorganization in the insurance Osorio was named to the commission by former Gov Alan Shivers in the closing days of his administration and was confirmed by the Senate Feb 20 In a letter answering questions put by Sadler Osorio claimed Daniel made him a secret Job proposition in connection with nil confirmation and with the governor's suggested insurance commission reorganization aerie said he turned it down in the belief that to accept would be tr violate his oath of office Daniel replied that the charge was The governor said the insurance commission needs a "complete more then any other state department Daniel laid he thought it was a mistake place 1 man at the head of the insurance department who had been so closely associated personally and politically with the past chairmen and adminla-tration of thin 0 clear It is an understandable "Will you read for us the resolutions I'm getting out here I'm sure most everyone here can read better than like your said a television cameraman me and I'll agree with the Jovial union chief said while hurrying to an elevator across the hall from the hotel penthouse meeting room UaaalmMS All the resolutions and motions were said to have been adopted unanimously Beck entered the meeting amid reports he wanted jthe Teamsters to the May hearing on the charges brought after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 117 times' appearing before the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee The new resolutions and motions a no reference to charges by the Senate committee that Beck diverted over $320000 in union funds to personal use Instead the board said the filing of the charges against Beck by the AFL-CIO Council "was contrary to the provisions of the constitution the The board authorized such action as may be necessary hilly protect the International Brotherhood of Teamsters its officers and members" Federation Rebuff Seen By NORMAN WALKER WASHINGTON JH Teamsters Union moves to delay or talk their way out of a ahowdown on AFL-CIO corruption charges seemed likely today to run into a solid rebuff from the federation Sources in the parent federation said trial procedures already set for Dave Beck Teamsters Union president and the huge trucking union itself are fair and no room for negotiation" AFL-CIO President George Menny was out of the city and not immediately available for com' menL The embattled Teamsters' Executive Board meeting in Galveston Tex yesterday asked the AFL-CIO for negotiations ss to charges against Beck and bill of particulars ns to charges that the union itself is under corrupt domination The board contendinf the charges were not specific said it would attend no hearings until "fundamentals of fair are assured The AFL-CIO charges are based on Beck's invoking the Fifth Amendment in refusing to tel Senate rackets investigators about his admitted personal use of union funds -and- court indictments against other high officers of the union The federation's Ethical Practices Committee has set May for a hearing for the' union The AFL-CIO Executive Council has set May 20 to hear the case against Beck who already has been suspended as an AFL-CIO vice president and council mem' her Cypriot after detention in seven-mile greeted in the from the has the him stabbed into a group of mnrthing soldiers at Ft Carson yesterday killing one basic trainee and knocking over -seven others Pvt Martin Warner 22 son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Warner of Harrisonvile Mo was the victim Lt Harry Anderson company commander tried to revive Warner with artificial respiration Five of the seven trainees were admitted to Ft Carson hospital Anderson said the boll hit the center of the last of four platoons returning from a trainee processing center medical commander "I was ready to empty the whole magazine if help didn't come Help did come quickly however A2C Guillermo Robledo 23 of the nearby guard position called for the sergeant of the guard and had himself relieved of his post while he assumed custody of the dog Which Lewis had retained on Us leash Robledo was bitten and slightly Injured in taking over the dog but was immediately returned to duty Col Sutherland said Wednesday morning that Lewis was "very lucky" and had favorable prospects for recovery The bullet said Col Sutherland just grazed one of the two main branches of the great aorta arterial blood channel from the heart Lewis unmarried Ives in the Dyess dormitories Robledo is married and Uvea at 1417 7th St Abilene it By MAX SKELTON GALVESTON When the Teamsters Executive Board in effect rejected a May 6 AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee hearing for Dave Beck the 62-ycar-oId president was a happy man Beck told reporters he was happy He indicated the board did just what he had hoped It would do in a five-hour emergency session yesterday in the resort city not going to givJ any interpretation because the for he said It is in hnr-with I thought the The board adopted two resolutions and two motions which turned down AFL-CIO plans for hearings on corruption charges against Beck and charges that the Teamsters are by cop rupt The union's top command said the AFL-CIO Executive Council was without authority to suspend Beck The council also was accused of making findings of "corrupt influences" without assuring the Teamstp-s of the of fair Not Alone George Meany AFL-CIO president was asked to appoint a committee to discuss Beck's suspension with a Teamsters committee Meany was advised the Teamsters would answer the corrupt influences charge only when ttia fundamentals of fair investigation are pravided that the answer would net be made by Beck alone but by the union's entire Executive Board this mean you won't attend any AFL-CIO hearing in the month of Beck wag asked put those western words in my mouth" the rotund Beck shot back language of the board's action is specific and MEANS TOME BARRY KING ing my God I think of the wonders of creation How can anyone see the beauty and perfection of nature and doubt that there is a God? Scientists say that nothing new can be created that all new products are but a combination of materials already in existence How great a God it took to create everything we would need today millions of years ago! He is just as great today as He was at the See FAITH Page 18-A CM of Wondersof Creation Evidence of God ating the 22nd District In Harris County 1 The bill would give the Houston area the additional congressman Texas won by the population increase shown in the 1950 the post now held by Congrcss-man-at-Large Marlin Dies The measure now face an uphill fight in the Senate The House gave it final approval 91-47 with almost no discussion in sharp contrast with lengthy debate on' earlier consideration Another major measure winning final House approval with some expressed opposition was the one (IIB187) increasing the gross load imit for trucks from 58420 to 72-000 sent to the Senate on a 74-59 vote GETS HELP QUICKLY OF ABILENE FOLK Guard Accidentally Shot at Air Base Family Album Light Drizzle Falls in Scattered Areas of Texas By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ught rain and drizzle fell in scattered areas of Texas Wednesday but skies were clear in the western part of the state A Ught shower fell early Wednesday at Laredo and drizzle was reported at Beeville San Antonio and in the Dallas-Fort Worth fen' The US Weather Bureau forecast more scattered showers or thundershowers except in West Texas Up to two Inches of rain fel Tuesday along the Texas Gulf Coast following torrential rains earlier Rains In East Texas were expected to help pastures THE WEATHER ABILENE Fair nortV centk1 CENTRAL cnwly and widely icat- EDITOR'S NOTE: Barry King 21 is a leader on the Hardin- Simmons University campus lie lettered the last two years as guard on the Cowboy basketball team was named to Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities is president of Cowboys for Christ was Junior Class president Inst year and is active at the University Baptist Church He gets a BBA degree in accounting this June Right now he hasn't decided on several job offers He is the oldest of three sons whose father a nurseryman died in Bap ry's freshman year at Il-SU His widowed mother lives in Texarkana By BARRY KING What does my faith mean to me? As we approach this Easter season the picture of Christ on the cross should make us think more and more about the particular faith which we profess First I should say that I have been well grounded in my faith by the experience of growing up in a Christian home with the finest Christian parents anywhere My faith is in a God that ia all-powerful and a Christ that is all-sufficient I have no doubt that God can and will take care of me because he has done it so many times In the -past Any time I have doubts cooccrn- AIRPORT PLANNER Beth (his young man and his fallivr have changed professions during his lifetime When he was born his father was a newspaper man but has since switched to law This young man started out to be an architect and came within about one semester's work of getting that degree as wen as one in civil engineering When he was around places where there was good fishing dose by such as at Austin where he taught two years after he was in the military service he liked to fish but now devotes more of his spare time such as It ia to flying While he was a city employe in Abilene during 1951-52 he prepared the plans for the new Municipal Airport Another' picture of him appears on page 2-A A young airmnn'i speedy presence of mind may have saved his life after he accidently shot himself white on guard duty at Dyesi Air Force Base Tuesday night The accident occurred at 10 pm when A2C Charles Lewis 20 of Jackson Tenn fell on his 43 caliber semi-automatic pistol while on centry dog post at the base The weapon discharged once and the red his abdomen punctured -stines and came out throu lower hip Realizing that a single pistol crack might be lost in the night vastness of the base Lewis despite his bad wound fired another shot into the sir and switched his flashlight to a constant beacon to make sure the adjoining sentry became aware of the accident Lewis rushed to the Dyess hospital told Lt Col Lawrence Sutherland operating surgeon and SECTION A Obituarin 14 SECTION Woman's rows 3 a Sports 4S Editorial 6 Amusements Comics 1 10.

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