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ANNOUNCE screen actress Silvana Pampanini and American television comedian George DeWitt smile happily for photograpers after revealing their engagement. The couple met at a Havana swimming pool and said later they planned to marry, but did not set a date. DeWitt opened a nightclub act in Havana and Miss Pampanini came from Mexico City where she is to do a television show. (AP Wirephoto). SECOND SECTION SECOND SECTION 89th YEAR.

NO. 219 PARIS, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 19, 1959 FOUR PAGES Solon Guiding Education Cash Is Experienced One AUSTIN The man helping guide the Legislature on how much money should be spent in 19fiO-61 to educate almost two million school children and about! 80.000 collegians is a bachelor. He is Rep. B. H.

(for Brownrigg! Hefferron) Dewey of Bryan, 41, serving his fouiih term on the powerful 21-member -louse Appropriations Committee as its most experienced member. Dewey is chairman of the subcommittee which will recommend how much should be spent for education. He says it will be plenty but not as much as the educators want. "Money, money, it's the bigj problem." said Dewey, who has! served in I he house since 1953 and i who introduced his first tax bili last week. It would up to 10 per cent the 7 per cent tax on natural! gas.

It would bring in an estimated i 18 million dollars a year. "Our recommendation on spending education will be higher than the present appropriation bill or the Legislative Budget Board's proposals," Dewey said. "It won't include a pay raise for the public school teacher, but it probably will have more money for college teachers." Dewey first moved into political circles as secretary-treasurer of the County Democratic Executive Committee. He was twice defeated in efforts to be elected to the City Council but won over four opponents in his first race for thej Legislature. "Call me B.H., nobody knows about Hefferron," he says.

Some call him i or "Brownie." Rep. Tony Fenoglio of Nocona recently tagged him "The Little Bull of the Brazos" after Dewey's! verbal attack on John G. Tower, Wichita Falls Republican who criticized the all-Democratic Legislature for doing nothing. Short '5-5) and weighing 155, Dewey squints through his glasses while talking. He is always ready to laugh, mostly when the criticism is about him.

He worries about what his home folk think but keeps them informed with a weekly newsletter. He works harder than the average legislator and is on the job every day at 7:30 a.m. Dewey said the coming appropriations bill of more than two billion dollars "is the biggest hot potato ever. More people are watching it now. You know the bill actually is written in the house-senate conference committee but we've got to pass something so we can bargain in tha committee." Opposed to a sales or incorm tax.

Dewey said he feels the mon ey needed can still be raised. she's an Ideal mother. 41 LOSES HIS EYES FOR SECOND TIME DALLAS W. E. Noe lost his eyes a second time this week.

The first time, in 1935, a refrigerator he was repairing exploded, costing him his sight. The second time someone shot his seeing eye dog, Christie. Noe, a door-to-door sal s- man, let his dog out for a run yesterday morning. "I had a cold, decided not to go to work. I went back to bed.

My wife woke me at 7 a.m. and said Christie was dead on the The dog had been hit more than a dozen shotgun pellets Noe said he knew of no reason for the shooting. "On the telephone a month ago a man said he'd shoot my dog. but he wouldn't tei! me his name. I paid no attention: I thought it was just an awful joke," Noe said.

Noe had had Christie for four years. ONLY ONE LEFT the death of John Sailing, of Kingsport, left, the only remaining veteran of the Civil War is Walter W. Williams, right, of Houston, Texas. Sailing, 112-year-old Confederate veteran, died of pneumonia, leaving Williams, 116, the sole survivor of the more than 4 million who fought in the Civil War. (AP Wirephoto).

Prosperity Puts New Life Into Easter Retail Trade By WALTER BREEDE JR AP Business News Writer NEW YORK prosperity, a booming stock market and a return to fashions that flatter the female form are putting It's Good Thing He Left Early AUSTIN (AP) Jack Young, a printer at the Austin Statesman, ivas having a good time but he decided to leave the dance early Monday night. He said he doesn't know why. but he is glad. When he got home, he found the house full of gas. His mother, unaware of the reason, was in the living room coughing and "feeling terrible." GOOD COOKS OF THE SOUTH sold everywhere! ft i new life into the nation's Easter retail trade.

So say many of the merchants, i bankers and Chamber of merce officials interviewed by The Associated Press in a coast- to-coast survey. "Business is shaping up beautifully." ays an executive of a big department store on Chicago's busy State Street. "Easter sales are far ahead of last year." People are spending with more confidence," said Richard H. Rich president of Rich's in Atlanta. "Consumers are more confident and seem to be spending more." observes Joseph Liebman, senior vice president of L.

Bamberger Newark N.J. "The stock market is healthy and that always i seems to be a good indicator." Laurence Maltinckrodt. president of the Scruggs, Vandervoort, i Barney in St. Louis said: "Sales are very good compared to last; year and we still have a few' sell- i ins days to go." While optimism is the keynote. you'll find dissenters here and there.

A New York department' store executive complains that i "women don't get excited about i fashions when there's a half foot; i of snow on the ground." Wide areas of the Northeast and upper Midwest were blanketed by heavy snowfall Inte last week. I and store sales took a nosedive. Other localized deterrents to an: unbounded shopping spree in- elude: persistent pockets of unemployment in some industrial centers, scattered state and local; tax increases, a printers' strike that closed daily newspapers in Columbus, Ohio, for two weeks i cities where winter has lingered on the earlier Easter date. Not all merchant? regard the earlier Easter as a handicap. IP, some Southern and Western citiei where the weather has been mild, it is considered an asset.

That'i the sentiment of merchants in Los Angeles where the mercury climbed into the high 80s while snow fell in New York. It's echoed by store officials in Miami, San Francisco, Dallas, Denver and Kansas City. is tremendous," exults Cyril Magnin, president of Joseph Magnin's, a San Francisco women's store. As usual, mom, sis and the younger kids take the lion's share of pop's Easter shopping dollar. Charles E.

Boyd. secretary-treasurer of the Detroit Retail Merchants Ass f. says: "Mom and the kids get first call on the new clothes budget and if there's anything left maybe pop gets a necktie." Auto production is booming in Detroit, but there's still enough unemployment around to put a damper on Easter sales. Cat Takes Ride With Salesman AUSTIN Refers, 21. University of Texas student, took her white tomcat to the grocery store Monday at a west Austin shopping center.

The cat disappeared and many persons joined in the search. Among them. Mr.rvin Meyers, a salesman from Sulphur Springs whose car parked nearby. No cat. Not until Meyers had driven to Kyle and back to Austin Monday night.

He heard a strange sound under the hood of the car. There was kitty, greasy and no longer white, curled up around the distributor. cooks up fluffy every time! i with that Whole Grain Flavor First and only rice Vitafied with Vitamin.