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Carlsbad Cumrent-Ai CHARACTER AGGRESSIVENESS REM AIIUT A PROGRESSIVE DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A GROWING an United Pross International Full Laasad Wiro United Prasi International Talaphoto VOL 74 NO. 121 CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8. I960 HOME EDITION 12 PAGES Pries 5c pemis THE LITTLE Scout Honor Court Set For Tuesday Defense OK, Says Admiral Argus Chafetz States Present Quality Below Standard The City of Carlsbad opened its fight today for a better quality water, 'adequate to serve an anticipated population of 40,000 people. The "battle" was joined in the conference room of the U. S.

Borax Chemical Corp. at Mermod and Halagueno Streets. The hearing is being held by the New Mexico State Engineer on the application of the city to drill nine new wells in an area approximately 10 miles southwest of the Local observance of the 50th Scouts of anniversary of the Boy America will continue Tuesday Disc Jockeys Admit Taking Some Payola WASHINGTON (UPJ) Three employes of a Cleveland radio station two disc jockeys and a music librarian said today they received payments from a music record distributor as "consultants." They said they would testify to this when called before a House subcommittee investigating payola and other allegedly deceptive broadcasting practices. The three young men talked freely with newsmen while the subcommittee questioned its first witness, former Boston disc jockey Norman Prescott, behind closed doors. The three identified themselves WASHINGTON (UPD Adro.

Arleigh A. Burke, the chief of Naval Operations, today expressed hit complete confidence in the ability of this country to deter any attack by the Soviet Union. Burke told the House Space Today's Chuckle When adults act like children, they're really silly; when children act like adults, they're delinquent. Caverns Travel night at the Carlsbad Elks Hall with a Scout Court of Honor beginning at 7 p.m. ii A CDCfJ.

If Committee he "thought the United Awards and presentations will be made at the conclave, with a spec- States is the most powerful nation on earth." He said there was "nothing Russia can do to stop her destruction if she wants to ial Eagle Scout award going Sarabia. 17. son of Mr. and! Protests to the city's application have been filed by Mrs. Louis Sarabia.

1404 West i seven companies and individuals, who contend that the Stevens Street. I additional drilling and pumping from underground water Observance of the scouting or-! supplies in the Capitan limestone reef will dry up the eanization's eolden anniversary Carlsbad municipal lake, above Tansill Dam and seriously impair the water rights of other users officially began Sunday at Carls February is off to a good start at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Travel figures for the first seven days show an increase over the similar period for 1959. A total of 4.006 visitors toured Underground Wonderland from Feb. 1 through Sunday, inclusive, compared with 3,205 for the first seven days of 1959.

That brought this year's start a war." Burke said this "is true now and I believe it will be true in the future." More Polaris Subs But Burke also said that the United States should have a total of 45 Polaris missile submarines. The United States is presently building nine missile lobbing submarines and there are funds for as Charles Young, music librarian, and Joe Finan and Wes Hopkins, disc jockeys, all formerly employed at Cleveland radio station KYW. "Did you take payola?" a news Powell's Record Attacked Those protesting the city application are Carlsbad Irrigation District. International Minerals Chemical U. S.

Borax Chemical Valley Land White's City. Joe Branch, operator of Happy Valley Water Works and Bill Nymeyer, former owner of the Loving Water System, since sold to the city of Loving. Representing Carlsbad in the bad High School auditorium with a Scout Service marking the opening of Boy Scout Week. Local banker H. C.

Harvey, the keynote speaker, discussed the responsibilities of citizenship and some of the problems facing America's young citizens today. Some 1.200 Carlsbad Boy Scouts and 500 adult leaders are participating in the observance of the Boy Scouts' 50th year. The week-long celebration being staged here will climax with a parade through downtown Carlsbad. three more in the budget for fiscal year 1961, which begins July 1. man asked Young.

Young called over his attorney, Joe Charlitt, of Washington, who was standing nearby, and put the question to him. "Yes." Charlitt said, "you took Burke disclosed that the Navy's original budget request had been cut by the Defense Department payola." The subcommittee went behind from 19 billion dollars to 15 billion dollars. MIAMI BEACH. Fla. (UPI) AFL-CIO President George Meany said today Rep.

Adam Clayton closed doors to question Prescott He said, however, that he "com-(Coatiaued Pag Three) and Powell (D -N would make a law firm of Harvey, Hinkle GETS AWARD The Rev. Willis Plapp, (right), minister of of First Preibyterian Church, is shown presenting "God and Country Award" to Perry Abernathy, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W.

Abernathy, La Huerta. The presentation was made at the church Sunday. This award is given to a Boy Scout who has done outstanding work in his church and in the community. (Staff Photo) almost immediately after opening its long-awaited investigation. travel figure to 21,048, compared with 20,624 for the similar period a year ago.

Top Recruiter Dr. Floyd D. Golden, president of Eastern New Mexico University, r-tales, had better watch Uncle Sam's Defense Department. If his recruiting ability ever comes to the attention of Uncle Sam, Dr. Golden is likely to be drafted Dow Representing the opponents "terrible chairman" of the House Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) is the law firm of Neal, Neumann uhoT Committee.

noted that subcommittee rules provide for a closed session whenever and Neal. Chafetz Takes Stand Artino hparino nffirpr for Meany accused the Negro congressman of stirring up racial Jttp Fnoinr Steve RevnnlH to-i hate at a news conference follow N. C. Negro Sitdown Strike Oldster Help Sought Narcotic Ring Leader Killed In Gun Battle day was Frank Irby, chief of the Water Rights Division of the State it is determined n)at testimony "may tend to defame, degrade or incriminate any person." Prescott made the request for a closed hearing in a telegram sent from Palm Beach. Sunday.

He gave no hint of the nature of his testimony. Engineers' office, assisted by Joe Yates, chief state hydrologist and Charles Harris, as legal advisor. First witness called during the into the- Armed Forces recruiting services before he can turn around a couple of ing the openmg meeting or trie AFL-CIO Executive Council. Powell, second ranking Democrat orfcthe committee, is in line to succeed retiring Rep. Graham A.

Barden at the next session of Congress. Meany also criticized Powell's absenteeism and voting record in Congress and as a district leader times. WASHINGTON UPD A Senate I mornin," session was A. B. Chaf At Lunch Counters Spreads GREENSBORO, N.

C. (UPI) A sitdown strike by Negro students protesting segregation at dime store lunch counters spread to Durham, N. today after a temporary halt here. Two Greensboro dime stores which had been the scene of mass protests last week by Negro college students opened for business as usual today but kept their lunch counters VILLA. ACUNA, Mexico (UPI) Carlsbad consulting engineer, etz Speaking to the Rotary Club here the other day, Dr who testified that water currently being supplied by the city system "far holnuu" ctanrtflrH rprrtm- Mechem Plays Wary Game On GOP Bid United Press Internat'onal Golden praised the Carlsbad school system as a fine training ground for college in New mended by the State Health De-f Democratic Parry Two federal narcotics agents staged a 15-minute gunbattle Sunday with 20 narcotics peddlers, killing the ring leader, in this border town across from Del Rio.

The agents said several local policemen took part in the battle on the side of the peddlers. subcommittee recommended today creation of a national "office of the aging" to give full-time attention to the problems of the nation's senior citizens. The United States, it said, is faced with "a new population explosion at the other end of life's cycle." partment, with regard to the dis closed. teachers. He said ENMU looked the country over be But, in Durham, about a half-dozen students moved into the F.

solved solids content. "He carried on a hate campaign Illustrating his contention with and used his power to stir up a graph of records kept from 1348 racial hatred at the slightest prov-through Jan. 1, 1960, Chafetz hvj oration." Meany said. "Tfs tpr- fore employing Dr. Guy Waid, former CHS principal, The agents said the dead man Republican waiting Woolworth store and sat at In the first of a series ot re Come Fight, Says Kennedy To His Rivals was Alberto Balleza Torres, own circulates tnai lormer uov.

cawing counter usually reserved for and Dr. Howard Melton, for the -sub committee- the increasing amount to thin that weiLhaye a L. Mechem was sunoortine Holm ports mer director of instruction Bursum for the GOP nomination. whites. They read newspapers and magazines, in apparent imitation of the group in Greensboro.

for university positions. Mechem, now a Las Cruces at urged a new program of health service benefits for the aged; legislation requiring government dissolved solids in the local water inainnan ui me supply. i Huse Labor Committee." The city now obtains its water The AFL-CIO chief said, how-supply from 10 iimetsone and two ever, he had no plan to protest The students were apparently torney, remained silent on his plans but observers in Albuquerque said ALBUQUERQUE (UPI) Sen. "And, with your indulgence we're not through." Golden told the contractors to eliminate employ- from North Carolina College, a alluvial wells. Chafetz said, and I Powell's expected promotion under John Kennedy has invited his pres-ment discrimination based on age congressional seniority rules.

has had to increase its pumping group. the three-time governor was trying to maneuver his choice into the lead position. identiai opponents to come out and and an mcrease in the $33 mini fisht. mum benefit under old- age in from these wells to provide ade Meany's attack on the Harlem Now, Mario DiNello, a quate water for an He told a crowd here Sunday surance to "at least" $50 a month. increasing Democnt was fhe first officia, re Bursum is a former Socorro population.

teacher at Joe Stanley Smith elementary school for the "I do not believe with (ex-) Presi Mayor and is regarded as Mech- dent Truman that primaries are action from the AFL-CIO to Barden's announcement that he will not seek re-election. Although er of the Villa Acuna night club. Agents started to arrest Balleza Torres after he delivered 80 pounds of marijuana to a U. S. citizen, for sale in the U.

S. The federal officers agents said several men drew guns and started shooting at them. The agents ducked and returned the fire, they said. The battle spilled into the street, where it lasted for at least a quarter of an hour, while residents and tourists scrambled to get out of the line of fire. Vastly outnumbered and unable to obtain local police support, the federal of-cicers were forced to flee to Del Rio.

The federal agents said several Ifval rvtltrpmpn u-hn mrutrntlv state-supported 'school for Negroes in Durham. Plainclothes officers on hand at the Woolworth and S. H. Kress stores in Greensboro when they opened today. Cardboard signs stating "Closed in the Interest of Public Safety" were placed along the counters where Negroes sat without being served last week.

past several years, has join Under questioning by J. Hinkle, Chafetz stated the opinion that the city's present allocation of 9,070 ed the Eastern New Mexico the AFL-CIO frequently assailed University faculty. DiNello ganons-per-minute is nui auequue Bar(Jen as being too con5ervative to meet the anticipated growth oLMeany declined to cornpare him em's closest political friend. However, earlier reports stated that Mechem's support would go to either George Franklin, city public welfare director, or Paul Robinson, District Attorney, both of Albuquerque. Bursum was a candidate for the will work in the area of ele The subcommittee also called for an additional 50 million dollars for public housing authorizations for the low income elderly and said that Congress should consider a program of financial aid to nursing homes for the aged.

Chairman Sen. Pat McNamara (D-Mich.) said that the 16 million Americans 65 years old and older Carlsbad to 40,000 persons with Powell. mentary education at ENMU and will work with a lot of eyewash. If the people do not love the candidates in May (primary time) they will not love them in November." Kennedy arrived here a few hours after the Western Democratic conference closed. He had breakfast with some party leaders, attended Mass at the University of New Mexico Aquines Newman Center off campus, then packed a near full house in the Civic Auditorium.

If HltHIMIII it MIMt Prior to the opening of testimony city attorneys told the Hearing Officer they intended to show that the 9,070 gallans-per-minute figure practice teachers. If this sort of thing con The standup snack bar at the Woolworth store had the usual mid-morning parade of customers, including Negroes, buying coffee to take out and other light re nomination in 1954. but he lost out to Ahin Stockton of Raton. Mechem, who said repeatedly he tinues, Carlsbad people pro bably will be wishing Dr N. M.

Traffic Deaths Since January 1, 1960 37 Corresponding date 1333 39 are victims ot tne tast pacea age in which we are living." "They have been neglected and i literally cast aside," he said. Golden would be drafted by assisted the des'd marijuana rinR. did not want to run for governor was reportedly trying to block the possible nominations of other pros freshments. Negroes normally trade at the snack bar which is located in the center of the store Uncle Sam. leader in his activities, shot at should be based on a year-round average rather than an instant fig-, ure and in his testimonv Chafetz illustrated this contention by stat- ing that although winter needs fell well below that gallonage.

summer (Continued on Page I The young Massachusetts hope -tr them pective candidates. "buffeted from agency to agency, from committee to council, in a separatist, fragmented fashion." and does not have stools or counter seats. They are: Alva Simpson, Santa itmiiHniinumitnifH Fe; State Sen. Richard Pousma, ful told his audience "America must address itself to the future." By the year 2,000, he said, there will be four'persons living in New Mexico for every resident now. Woolworth District Manager Gallup; and Tom Bolack, Farm- Agents said they did not capture any of the local officers, but they did jail several of the 20 in the gunfight No injured other than the one death were reported.

mgton. John W. Largen of Raleigh did riot indicate when the store would Simpson said he will run against re-open Hs lunch counter. Mechem or anyone else, if the Flu In Chaves Al Stubbs, editor of the Roswell Daily Record, writes that the Chaves County Health Department reported 691 cases of flu for that county to the New Mexico Department of Public Health for the week ending Santa Fe businessman decides to Assessor's Request For More Funds Denied By Commission He charged the Republican administration had ignored advice from the Interior Department on reclamation spending and had left the West devoid of the water it needs so urgently, elsewhere streams run unused into the oceans. run.

The other contenders, Pousma and BolacV, who is a well known oilman and big game hunt er, indicated they would not run Eddy County Commission-j the remainder of the current fiscal against Mechem. Vorenberg Named Firm Partner Clifford E. Minor, president of Minor, Mee announced today in Albuquerque that Morris Vorenberg, formerly an assistant vice president of the company, has been made a partner in the firm year Fabian Bullet Found, Polite Keep Probing Police today continued to investigate the shootine of Robert stallation of the unit tax system, on which the county has expended more than $75,000 in recent years. Shafer said his 11-member staff is smaller than that under which the assessor's office find unit Jan. 30.

It appears that the impact of the flu bug hit Chaves a little. later than it did Eddy County. Reported cases dropped appreciably here, ers today refused a request for additional salary funds for the office of County Assessor Wm. H. (Slick) Shaf-er, after a flareup of tern- Harsh words marked the renewed budget discussion at today's commission meeting, attended by Frank Ortiz, secretary to the Nrw Mexico State Tax Comniissian, and Alex Armiio.

chief of Local Eight Children Lose Second Mom LEVITTOWN, N. Y. (UPI) -Last September Robert Creamer's wife Lucy, 38, was killed in an auto crash and Creamer, a fac Student Denies Socialite Coat Hanger Slaying of Minor, Mee and has been elected a vice president. tax office were operated the year prior to the time he took office. Since then the unit tax office has been moved directly into the assessor's office.

County Commission Chairman E. pers that sparked the morn-1 Govsrnment, Department of Fi- ing session of the regular nance. monthly commissioners' Argument Heated Vorenberg is manager of the Carlsbad office of Minor. Mee Co. in Fabian.

20, of 1604 South Highway, shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday. Officers said Fabian shot himself. Fabian was recovering in Carlsbad Memorial Hospital today from a gunshot wound in the abdomen. tory foreman, was left alone to bring up their eight young chil the Downey Building.

COLUMBUS, Miss. (UPI) -Young Jon Mattox has denied the coat-hanger slaying of socialite Mrs. Gene Tate and today more 1 11C HI UllICiii ucvai uv; os iivaivu O. Spurlin said he thqught the unit at one point that it threatened to WEATHER FORECAST" evidence was in the FBI labora tax system had been installed, or was supposed to have been install to around 200. "How many flu victims didn't see a doctor?" asks Stubbs.

"Triple the figure for the week and it'll give some indication of the prevalence of flu in this area." 6 6 -tr Police Judge While local residents are concerning themselves with the forthcoming city council and mayoralty election, a tory in Washington. Mattox attorney Jesse Stennis said Sunday the 20-year-old Mis dren. Creamer moved his mother, Mrs. Catherine Creamer, 69, into their home to act as a foster mother to the children. On Saturday night while Mrs.

Creameij was crossing a rain-slick road, hurrying home with groceries for Sunday dinner, she was struck and killed by a car. CARLSBAD: Fair with occasion al high clouds. No important tern perature change. Low tonight 33 meeting. Shafer's office has a balance of $10,551 in the salary fund, from the original budget of $35,280, for the entire fiscal year, records show.

The payroll amounts to approximately $3,500 per month and the remaining salary would carry his present staff through March and erupt into fisticuffs between Spur-lin and Shafer. A request for additional funds to operate the assesor's office was made at the October meeting, and action delayed by commisioners until the February meeting. Commissioners concurred in the voiced opinion that personnel in the assessor's office should have been whittled, or salaries lowered, to keep the operation within the Investigating officers said Fabian went to the home of his estranged girl friend and fired one shot from a pistol into his lower left abdomen. The shooting occurred at 3020 Carver Street. The wounded man then drove to the home of the brother-in-law of his girl friend, officers said, and placed a "suicide" note on the door, before collapsing in the yard.

Off icers 'recovered the bullet which pierced a door after passing through Fabian's body, but had not recovered the gun today. ed. Shafer said some additional work needs to be done. Asked how he put but the latest tax notices, Shafer said "with the unit tax system." Exchange of Letters County Clerk Mildred Pate read an exchange of letters between the commissioners and Shafer. The first from the commisioners written in December took note of salary increase for Mrs.

Ellen Thorn- (Continued Paga Three) sissippi State College student will plead innocent to the strangulation of his pretty, 31-year-old next-door neighbor. "They haven't any proof that this boy committed the crime," Stennis said. After a short talk with Mattox in the Columbus jail Saturday night, he said Mattox emphatically denied any, part in the killing. Mis Your Paper? high Tuesday 08. NEW MEXICO: Fair with increasing high cloudiness.

Cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Light showers in the northern mountains. Warmer west and central areas tonight. Locally cooler Tuesday. Lowa tonight 25-40 north, 40-50 south.

High Tuesday 45-55 north, M-70 south. few individuals are eyeing April, Shafer said. the post of city judge. Dial 5-2151 before 7 p.m. week days or before 10 a.m.

Sunday and Among them is Ray Ad- At the present rate, the office budget, will be short some $7,200 in its Shafer replied that the entire payroll fund to carry it through I staff was needed to complete in vour oarjer will bo delivered to you. kinsi former local police of (Continued en Pag Three).