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WEXTRCT BONHAM AND VICINITY Much colder tonight wiih strong northerly winds diminishing. Possibility of scattered snow flurries this afternoon and early tonight. Decreasing cloudiness through urday. Low near 20, high Saturday near 35. Established 1892 69th Year Leased Wire United Press International BONHAM, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JAN.

5, 1962 NEA Wirephotos NUMBER 116 by bob rantrell Mrs. Lois Lang, Princeton, Rt. 1, is really hoping that the party who found her hillfold will send it back intact with the money. You see, the money in the billfold is all that she had and was saving that to pay her taxes and insurance premium. Mrs, Lan" and a friend were in Bonham Monday, Jan, and visited The Sam Rayburn Library and Speaker grave in Willow Wild cemetery.

In a addressed to Mayor of Mrs. Lang said she was a widow, in ill health and was able to work only a small portion of the time. She added the S50 or so in the billfold had been saved up over a period of months. Mavor J. C- 'gouirk placed a classified ad in The Daily Favorite for her.

Basketball in this area can see some good basketball and make a donation to the Sam Rayburn Library fund at the same time Saturday night. The opportunity wiil come in the basketball program scheduled at Wolfe City when teams from Wolfe City. Honey Grove, Fannin- del and Gober get together for a twin bill. All proceeds from the games will be turned over to the Sam iyburn Foundation which maintains the Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham. Saturday will be the anniversary of the birth of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, who died here Nov, 16.

That shower Wednesday night was the first measurable rainfall in Bonham since Dec. 16 Frost was the only form of precipitation during the holidays in the Bonham area. Few peoj a reverse an automa' likf to back up but a necessity oc Jim and Martha Bybee had to concert hall BONHAM BAND STUDENTS JoAnn Shaw and Jim Van Zandt, members of the Bonham high school band, will play with the 100-piece All Region band in a concert at East State college at 7:30 o'clock Saturday night. Van Zandt plays the trombone and Miss Shaw plays the flute. (Staff Photo) In Regional Concert Two Bonhi Students to Play in Regional Band Two Bonham high school stu-l chair position out of eight chairs dents, Jim Van Zandt, senior, and flute section.

This is JoAnn Shaw, sophomore, w.ll per- S.P‘iy Region band. She has plaved flute form with the 100-piece All-Region the Bonham band since band concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday waf in the fifth grade it the East Texas State collegc NewCold Front Whips Through Texas Today Kennedy Prepares For Opening of Congress Jan. 10 Saturday, Sunday Set Aside for Talks On Programs PALM BEACH, Fla. (UP!) President Kennedy paid a farewell call on his hospitalized father today before flying back to Washington and intensive preparation for the coming session of Congress Jan.

10 Concluding an 18-dav stay In Florida, the chief executive was scheduled to take off by Air Force jet transport at 4 pm He was due at the White House shortly after 6 p.m. The President visited his 73- year old father at St- Hospital in West Palm Beach for about 15 minutes. He arrived shortly after 10:30 a. at the steering wheel of his top-down convertible. a Secret Service agent at his side.

The President extended thanks to his younger cousin. Miss no evidence of an invasion Gargan, who has been at the bos- lhe invasion report said the pital much of the time since the hinese were driving toward elder Kennedy was taken there South Viet Nam. It followed an following a stroke Dec 18. other claim Thursday night that Kennedy told a reporter he had broken out might be hack in Palm Beach on the defense permiter along the at the end of this month. Nam River, only a few miles Saturday and Sunday were set north of Vientiane, aside for White House meetings the invasion reports by nreparatorv to reconvening of government of Premier Boun Congress next Wednesday, except 0um proved false.

On De for a few hours Saturday nieht 30- the government is- ctioH falling at mid-morning and grad- when Kennedv will speed by jet suea communique saying that' Laotians Charge Invasion VIENTIANE. Laos royal Laotian government said tonight that the country had been invaded by Communist Chinese troops, but the best informed Western sources here said there Heavy Sleet. Snow, Gusty Winds Ncte Arrival of Wave Visibility Reduced To Near Zero in So me Areas By United International Heavy snow and sleet, blown by winds gusting to force, the Northwestern Texas area today from Wichita Fails northwestward to Amarillo. Up to five inches of snow was on the ground in the Chillicothej area at daybreak, and by mid day the situation had worsened Chillicothe is west of Wichita I Falls. Amarillo reported winds gusting to 73 miles an hour shortly after dawn.

A light snow began to Columbus, Ohio. He will speak battalions of North Viet- at a Democratic fund-raising soldiers had invaded ner honoring Gov. Michael V. Di- northeast Laos, but four weeks Salle. later the government admitted Before departing for Washing- that the announcement had been ton, the President and his fam- matle t0 up support from ily were expected to take advan-1 abroad.

tage of warming weather and Washington State Depart cruise briefly on the White House ment officials said today they had yacht, the Honey no1 heard of any Chinese invasion Family Stava Behind Laos.) The Ladv and the two However, official U.S. embassy Kennedy children, Caroline and sources said they had received John will remain in Palm "no reports of any unusual mili- I until Wadnesday I tary activity during the past few Then Mrs Kennedy will fly back day ually increased The strong winds were whipped into the Panhandle by an Arctic i front which swept into the area behind a Pacific front which moved through the area last! night. The snow was so thick in the Vernon Chillicothe Quanah area that visibility was zero. Cars traveled at about a mile an hour, if at aU. U- S.

287 between Quanah and Childress was closed temporarily by stuck cars. The high winds knocked down a number of utility OUTLINES WORK PROGRAM Gov. Price Daniel, right, after outlining a four-point work program for the special session of the Texas Legislature, confers with Speaker of the House James A. Turman of Gober. Leadmq the list was the Escheat Enforcement Act which brings the state under the act.

Other points were the regulation of small loans, farm-to-market roads, and the juvenile parole system. (NEA Telephoto) Medi ca! are in time to see her husband de liver his State of the Union mes- worded communique, said also sage to a joint session of a Communist North Vietnam- House and Senate Thursday or division was standing by at Band director Taylor said that ini thpir narking IT the music building. approximately 30 members of be careful about their ParKin" James A. Taylor, band that reverse gear was out. I vvill accompany them to Commerce.

Members of the band were se- Dennis White doesn't know through tryouts Dec. 5 at whether to be maddest at the pos- peasant. sum or his dog. Jim Van Zandt, son of Mr. and The possum W(is bothorinp (SM AND F-NDH Page 8) Short Summer Low of 20 Degrees Forecast Sunday Summer in January came to an abrupt end for Bonham and vicinity today as a blustery cold front roared in to send temperatures tumbling.

After a mild 65-degree reading Thursday, temperatures skidded into the low 40s during the day and were due to keep dropping to near 20 or lower by Saturday morning. A light drizzle fell in Bonham early this morning and there is a possibility of scattered snow flurries this afternoon or early tonight. lh high reading Saturday is expected to be in the mid-30s. The 5 day forecast calls for temperatures to average near normal. There will be a slight warming, trend the first of the week followed by colder weather.

Little or no precipitation is expected. NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS Much colder tonight. Strong northerly winds diminishing tonight. Decreasing cloudiness tonight and Saturday. Colder in the southeast Saturday.

Mrs. H. Van Zandt, won the I second chair trombone position out of only eight chairs open in the I trombone section. He will go to Lufkin Jan. 13.

to compete with three other second chair winners for a place in the All-State band. Van Zandt won this area tryout last year at Lufkin, and has won a position in the All-Region band every year since the eighth grade when he joined the band He has won a position in the All-State band the last two years. JoAnn, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Joe F. Shaw, won fourth Bonham band will go by bus to Commerce Saturday night for the concert by the All-Region band.

He stated that the public is invited to attend the concert. Miss Shaw and Van Zandt will Friday When the work load incident to the early stages of Congress permits, the President was expected to return to Palm Beach for occasional weekend visits with his father, former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, who is recovering from a stroke suffered Dec go to Commerce Saturday morning 29 The elder Kennedy has been with their director to rehearse with the band in preparation for the concert. Taylor will return to Bonham and accompany the band members to Commerce on the school bus. France, Tunisia Plan to Start Talks on Bizerte PARIS and Tunisia announced today they will start top level talks in Paris on the future of the French-held key air and naval base at Bizerte, scene of a bitter four-day battle last July.

The French Foreign Office said Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville would head the French negotiating team. Negotiators for Tunisia will be Foreign Minister Sadok Mokkadem and Defense Minister Bahi Ladgbom 100 on Rolls Legion Committees Named at Thursday Meeting of Post improving slowly and should be able to leave the hospital for his oceanfront home within a week or two. The President had planned originally to stay here until Saturday afternoon and fly direct to Columbus. He shaved 24 hours off his Florida holiday, however, be The government, in an urgently- throughout the Northwestern Texas area. Weather Bureau Surprsied The near blizzard condition on the Viet Nam caught the Weather Bureau dtejj Laos border to assist the Communist rebel forces in this country.

Military attaches at the U. embassy get daily reports from advisers assigned to Laotian army units and would be in a position to know immediately if there was any large-scale fighting going on while a cease-fire is supposed to be in effect. After consulting with U. officials here, diplomatic observers wrote off Ministry munique No. 1" as the start of aimed at winning U.

S. support for the strong stand the Laotian government took suiprise. Only a few light snow flurries had been forecast for the Program May Be Forgotten in WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi-1 The outlook for action on the dent Kennedy's No. 1 domestic! bill undoubtedly will be a major a topic when confer, at ly financed by Security area, and that expected today and this year taxes seemed likely today to wind up near the bottom of the list of things Congress will con- cause of pressing business back during recent attempts to form in Washington. I a coalition government.

He ttt. important meet- The communique said the rebel Air Traffic is Barred In Eastern Indonesia MAKASSAR, Indonesia The Indonesian air force loday barred all air traffic from the eastern part of Indonesia closest to disputed West Irian (Dutch New Guinea). All aircraft were warned to stay clear of the area(An Indonesian broadcast monitored in Tokyo said the war administrator for the Moluccas and the areas facing New Guinea had ordered a general mobilization. (The broadcast said the mobilization will affect all male and female Indonesians between the ages of 15 and 45.) An announcement in Jakarta mid all permits for flights thrqugh the prohibited air space hive been invalidated by the new order. Violation of the ban, it was warned, would bring and by the Indonesian air force.

In announcing the ban. Maj. Agus Suroto said the measure was taken within the of the command issued by president Su last month. He said certain airlanes would be set up for authorized flights. Sukarno sought additional support today from the people of the South Celebes islands in his drive to Dutch controlled West Irian.

Sukarno arrived here Thursday on the first stop of a four-day tour of the islands and told a million rain-soaked residents of this capital city that he will negotiate with the Dutch government on only one basis that it transfer sovereignty of West Irian to if you say in advance you want to transfer the terri tory, then we will talk with (See AIR TRAFFIC, Page 5) Chairmen of principal committees of the newly-organized Anderson-Roberts post of American Legion were named Thursday night by Commander H. G. Dulaney during the monthly meeting of the post in the district court room. Plans were made for the February meeting when a chili supper will be served and veterans trom throughout the county will be in vited to attend. The meeting will be held on Thursday night, Feb.

1, at a place yet to be announced Commander Dulaney announced that he was naming chairmen of the various major committees and that he would then work with the individual chairmen in selecting other members of the committees from the rolls of Legion members. As chairman of the membership committee, Commander Dulaney named First Vice-Commander Jack Reynolds. Immediately following the meeting, Reynolds met with Dulaney to name the following members of the committee: Buck Moss, Frank McElfresh, Joe Denton, Trav Currin, Charles Dewoody, and Daymond Rushing. Second Vice-Commander Pat Warren was named chairman of the finance committee; Bob Dorough. chairman of the house and entertainment committee; Buster Cole, legal committee; Frank Wright, legislative committee; Dr.

O. Box, public relations committee; A1 Godat, rehabilitation committee; County Judge Choice Moore, child welfare committee; Paul Simpson and Lona Jaynes, co-chairmen of the athletic committee; Ray Peeler, security committee, and Charles Tosch, Americanism committee. Avery Jones, adjutant, told the group that membership in the newly-organized post has now passed the 100 mark on the way toward the goal of 300 or more during the coming year. (See KFNNFDY, Page 5) Officers Asked to Watch for Suspect Fannin county officers today were asked to be on the watch for a suspect in an armed robbery at Denton. Denton officers identified the as a resident of Ladonia and said the man escaped on foot after wrecking the car he was driving at a road block in the Denton area.

Denton officers expressed the belief the man might return to Ladonia. Identification was made from the license on the car. forces had attacked frontline positions along the Nam River and also attacked a guerilla post inside rebel territory. It said that Viet Mihn forces inside Laos has increased in size while a full division was ordered to stand by along the border. However, a usually reliable said regarding the government communique: is no evidence of new developments concerning North Vietnamese in Laos or on its borders NAVY CLAIMS RECORD WASHINGTON (UPI) A new helicopter speed record of 199.01 miles an hour for a three-kilometer distance has been claimed by the Navy.

The record was set Dec. 30 by Cmdr. Patrick L. Sullivan and Marine Capt. David A.

Spurlock. tonight. Vernon police dispatcher Jimmy Mitchell said visibility in the snow was so poor that it took one police car two hours to drive four miles A wind blew a Trailways bus into a parked truck on U- 6ft just west of Amarillo early today. No passengers were injured, but the bus driver was trapped in the wreckage for nearly two hours. He slightly injured.

Despite the heavy snow and strong winds, overnight temperatures in the area were not severely cold. Minimums ranged from 26 at Dalhart and 18 at Amarillo to the 60s along the Gulf Coast. The first cold front which struck the Panhandle area Thursday night moved through the coastal area about mid-day, and the Weather Bureau said the Arctic front would cover the state tonight. Roads Very Slick Mitchell said nearly two dozen cars and trucks were stalled along U. 287 west of Vernon and that roads through the area were 1 very slick.

Dalhait and Amarillo had brief but heavy snows Thursday night, and both reported an inch on the ground early today. The snow was expected to melt as temperatures cJimbed above freezing today. Light rain fell in a wide area from East Texas through the cen tral portion of the state into the country just east of the Pecos River. In fact yet that sion can situation despite assertions by Democratic party strategists that a presidential victory on this issue would give a major boost to Democratic prospects in next elections. Arctic Cold Hits Northern Area By United Press International Arctic cold hit the northern half of the nation today, churning a near-blizzard in the great plains and spattering sleet and freezing rain eastward to the Atlantic.

Gale winds fanned light snow from Kansas to the Canadian bor der. Sub-zero cold bit into the Da kotas and northern New F'ngland Thunderstorms dropped rain from Texas to Georgia. Warm weather returned to Flor ida, which nipped by frost 24 hours earlier. Early today Miami had a 68 degree reading. Snow fell at the rate of half an inch an Thursday night in Grand Forks, N- where the temperature dropped to 10 below zero early today Western Hit Enid and Clinton, had nearly 6 inches of snow on the ground early today and the snow belt extended from the southwest to the north central portion of the state.

At Enid winds up to B0 miles an hour dropped visibility to a few feet. South and east of the snow belt thunderstorms raked the state. In Northwestern Texas, a surprise snowfall by 50 mile an hour winds, stalled cars and trucks and laid down a white blanket on the entire Panhandle. Up to 5 inches fell on the Chillicothe area and one police unit was able to travel only four miles in almost two hours. Kansas prepared for four inches of snow with deep drifts expected in the western part of the state.

The wind was clocked at better than 40 miles an hour in South Dakota with near-zero temperatures expected throughout the day today. Nebraska wras battered by 50 mile winds, whipping light snow. Omaha an apartment house fire sent 100 persons fleeing into streets chilled near the zero level Wind gusts hampered the work of firemen. Heavy snow warnings were up for parts of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Iowa prepared for a six-inch snowfall, as did Wisconsin.

the White House Saturday with Chairman Wilbur Mills. of the House Ways Mean. Committee. committee also has Jurisdiction over three other major is no assurance items on the legmen etonized program. All of them are exacted This is the jabbed for action ahead of the medical care bill.

The three are liberal tariff-cutting program, his tax revision package and a major overhaul of the federal-state welfare program. The controversial plan to expand Social Security benefits into the new field of hospitaliiation and nursing home benefits has been pigeonholed since last spring in the 25-man committee. Kennedy still does not have the 13 votes needed to squeeze out even a compromise. If he fails to budge the com- mittee. Kennedy may try to bypass it by launching a drive in the Senate.

For several reasons the Kenndy-Mills talk Saturday is not lik- ly to lead to early action in the House committee: voted against all versions of the Social Security approach to medical care in I960 and there is no evidence that he has changed his position. if Mills agreed to go along, there is no assurance that he could muster majority support. On the last showdown in a compromise version got the support of only nine of the 15 Democrats. heavy schedule will keep it busy until late May or June. Hubert Thomas Hubert Thomas in Commissioner Race The snow was welcome at ski resorts, a dozen of which were hampered by the warm weather preceding thi storm.

South and east of the snow area a belt of freezing rain and sleet extended eastward to Penns vania. Ohio highways were reported hazardous. Near Aurora, 111., a woman was killed when struck by a skidding car while crossing a highway. Hazardous driving warnings were up in Michigan, which reported sleet and freezing rain, changing to Freezing rain began early Thursday night at Grand Rapids. In Lake Erie Thursday a Navy helicopter rescued 14 Detroit fishermen from a drifting ice floe.

The temperature dipped below zero in parts of upstate New York Thursday afternoon and the coldest weather of the season was forecast. Florida citrus growers, relieved at the lack of frost damage to their groves, reported the cold wave actually benefitted the fruit, improving the qtmlity of the juice. The county and precinct us grew again Friday with the an nouncement by Hubert farmer living in the Leonard area, that he will seek the office of commissioner of Precinct 2. Thomas is seeking the office now held by John Kent, who has not yet announced for reelection. In his formal announcement on another page of Daily Favorite, Thomas points out that he mad the race four years ago and got a nice Minuteman Test Proves Success CAPE CANAVERAL Air Force Minuteman streaked from an underground launching pad and soared across the Atlantic Ocean a full success for first rocket test of the new year.

The 56 foot missile blasted away on its ocean-spanning at 10 a m. after a perfect countdown. The success was the third straight for Minuteman missiles in firinys from concrete-lined buried in the earth, and the fourth success in seven shots including surface launchings. 1 Negro Suspect is Sought in Passing Of Three Checks County and city officers today their search for a Negro suspect in the passing of three forged checks here late Thursday afternoon. Each check was in the amount of $65 and in each instance the passer made a small purchase and received cash for the difference Chief of Police O.

McKissids and Sheriff Hoyt Ivey and all members of both departments joined in the search for the suspect late Thursday afternoon. Several possible suspects were picked up for questioning but were released when parties who received the checks were unable to identify them. As they pushed their search for the suspect, Sheriff Ivey and Chief McKissack again urged all businessmen and clerks to make tey knew the persons who ed checks to be cashed. The officers said that identification should be required and then the license number of the car should be secured if at all possible.