Lubbock Evening Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 1

West Texas Weather Scattered Tor Complete Report On Weather Map See Page 7, Sec. 3 mm a Final Edition For Classified Ads Dial P03-9311 VOL. 34, NO. United International News Services LUBBOCK. TEXAS, "The Hub Of The Plains" THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1958 Entered as Second Class Matter, at the Post Office at Lubbock, Texas, under Act of March 3.

1879 46 Pages Today Lubbock Police Deny Quotas Set Up For Officers On Traffic Violations BEAUTY PAGEANT HIGHLIGHT Five-Block Business Area Filled By Displays, Rides Curious shoppers were pouring into downtown business area in a steady stream this morning as the Dollar MallM began its three days of experimental operation. The carnival atmosphere, designed as a promotion idea to open pocketbooks and pull additional trade into ip downtown area, may draw! persons by the time it! participating in the undertaking, closes Saturday night, officials1 Gerome Grayum, head of the predicted. Is oring Greater Downtown Merchants said if possibly Lubbock Park Shop organiza- rould point the way to a com-ltion said. pHe revamping of the downtown Another of the featured attrac- area to maintain it as the reactions, the South Plains Art Guild shopping of Lubbock and show, opened at noon today in the South Plains, 'the vacant building across the Barricades have been thrown street north of Depart- Up around five blocks in the cenyment Store, tral business district, and Broad- The show, featuring the work way and Aye. have been turned artists from throughout the into pedestrian malls whore includes portrait painting, BY C.

W. RATLIFF Journal Staff Writer Denial of charges that members of the Lubbock Police Department issue tickets for traffic violations on a quota basis was made by City Manager H. P. Clifton before Lubbock City' Commission this morning. Clifton said the charges had been made a number of times lately by various individuals given tickets for violations, Clifton said he had been informed by Chief of Police J.

T. Alley that there never had been quotas set up for policemen on traffic violations and that a check of records during the first ten days of June showed that police issued 755 tickets for moving violations. During that same time 858 motorists were contacted and warned about violations but were not issued Chief memorandum to Clifton said. Discussion on the quota charges came in consideration of a claim of $250 presented against the city for false arrest, summarily imprisonment and trial by a Lubbock man who later appealed his case to county court and won acquittal. He had been arrested and carried to the police station because he had refused to sign the ticket calling for his appearance in corporation court to answer the charge of following a vehicle closely.

The charge resulted from an accident at 19th St. and Ave. last January. always hear the charge Clifton told the no use going before the judge as he considers everybody guilty who appears before him. we also made a cheek on the appearances before the corporation court judge in these same seven Clifton said, wa found that lfi of 31 persons who appeared before him See LUBBOCK POLICE DENY Page 10 5,000 Flee Floods In Indiana Storm Slams Into Wichita pers can wander to and fro with cut worrving about traffic.

The streets were filled with china painting, mosaic work and culinary displays. Lubbock of will be displays and rides for crowned Saturday night to climax Musical entertainment is ached- the mall program. The beauty tiled this afternoon and tonight. pageant preliminaries will be Schedule Is Given held at 8 p.m. Friday and the Stores will be open until 9 p.m.'finals at 8 p.m.

Saturday, today and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Twenty-four girls are eontest- Friday and Saturday. for the Miss Lubbock title. One of the highlights will be1 Streets already have been dec- beauty pageant Friday and Sat- orated in holiday fashion. An out- urday nights to select Lub- stage has been erected at More than 90 per cent Broadway and Ave.

J. from where of the downtown merchants are See LUBBOCK MALI, Page 10 South Plains Entry, Olivia Beemon, Places 11th Kansas Girl Is Spelling Champion By OPAL DIXON Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON 1 i 11 a Schlehuber of McPherson, today won the national spelling bee by correctly spelling the word Johtta defeated Terry Maderia 13. Elizabethtown, who stumbled on the word She misspelled it Under the rules of the bee, Jolitta first had to spell correctly and then go on and correctly spell another word, she did. Had she failed Terry' would have been given another chance. Placing 11th among the 68 spelkrs in the National Bee, Olivia Beaman of Klondike, Lamesa Rt.

A. left the stage this morning with a smile and the statement, glad I went this She misspelled the word in the 15th round, spelling it It was the only word called to her in the 15 rounds that she was not iar with. menas a device to fill the lower part of a painted window, or the swastika. Other words she spelled this morning, in the second day of the contest in the Sheraton- Park Hotel ballroom, were and She was See SPELLING BEE Pace 10 Football Coach Will Go To Port Neches Moore Resigns At Tom A Child Writes To "Heven II THE Schlehuber of McPherson, hides her grin behind a tightly clasped purse as she is announced as the 1958 National Spelling Bee champion in Washington today. Holding up her left hand in true prize fight style is Benson Alleman, pronmmcer, story in Cols.

3. 4, 5 and 6. (AP Wirephoto) ON CITY ELECTRIC BILLS: Rebate Of 5 Per Cent Is Proposed Lubbock Youth Is Killed In Crash Jack Spoon. 21, brother of Charles E. Spoon.

517 4fith died about 5 p.m. Wednesday in a Big Spring hospital about an hour after his motorcycle collided with a dump truck near Big Spring. Spoon, who recently was discharged from the armed services, was returning to Lubbock when he was in collision with the dump truck. He had made home in Lubbock with the brother the past six weeks. He had been employed a short time by Richardson Store Fixture Mfg.

until last week. He was unmarried and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Spoon of Mineral Wells, Lubbock Man Found Shot ake Any Of My Toys, God, But Please Leave Mommy" ELIZABETH, N. J.

letter, written in a childish scrawl was addressed "To God in Heven." It "Dear God know you are bnsy, bat please will you make mommy well again. says that you may take mommy to Heven to he with you. love you but I want my mommy to stay here with me. can have any of my toys. Daddy needs mommy two.

will say my prayers every Postmaster William Runyon opened the letter yesterday. There was no signature. By JOE McLAUGHLIN journal Staff Writer i Wilford Moore, for the last hvo years head football coach at Tom S. Lubbock High School, resigned early today to accept a similar at football-conscious Port High School. The resignation will become effective July 1.

Although still pending, it is expected that Edgar Payne, line coach for the Westerners under Mm WOMAN RESIDENT KILLED school. Too. there is a possibility two other of assistants. Ronald Robbins and James Cobb, will accompany Moore, Statement Is Given In a signed statement to Nat Williams, superintendent of schools here. Moore said: have submitted to Mr.

Williams today my resignation as PONCA CITY, Okla. fAPt A the four-room frame house about head coach at Tom S. Lubbock flaming Air Force jet training 10 p.m. about "five or six'blocks long and 13 KiIlw! High School in order to accept plane hurtled out of a rainstorm Barham Van Organ said he was one block ide. About 20 police- Continuing storms had claimed the job as athletic director and into an isolated farm home near driving with his ife along a near- men patrolled the area through- ieast lives, most of them football coach at Port here last night, killing an Air bv road when the plane crashed, out the night Spann said, to pre- ln accidents.

The death 'Neches High School. I would like Force instructor and his pupil. at this time to thank the board and a woman resident of the and Mr. Williams for the oppor- house Three Die As Jet Rams Into Home Funnel Injures Five; 25 To 30 Homes Are Hit WICHITA, (UPI) A giant twister-producing storm slammed into Wichita shortly before midnight, damaging a five to six block area in the northeast section of the city. Five persons from Wichita and Andover, a suburb, suffered minor injuries.

They were treated for small puncture wounds and lacerations at Wesley Hospital and released. Wichita Police Capt. Warner Spann said the tornado moved through the northeast part of town about rooftop level. The weather bureau said about 25 or 30 houses were damaged. Spann said a survey of the damage would not be made until daylight.

Numerous funnels were report-; ed in twister-jittery south-centralj and central Kansas. Other twisters were sighted near Newton. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Furley, Emporia and Osage tprT71Pd rhp At Olpe, about 11 miles south 45 years raged through north een- of Emporia, rainfall measured tral Indiana today, causing at 5.50 inches.

Eagle Creek has ieast 3.000 persons to flee their been rising I1? feet an hour and homes now is overflowing in the A Pmergencv The weather bureau said cla in Peru Ind Mayor observers are posted along he John Devj Wabash creek to advise residents if the ovprflmvpd jt Wednesdav overflow dangerous. mgh( an(i causpd ab0M Spann said police cars with sons fo abandon their homes, their warning sirens on were dis- (P patched to northeast Wichita be- Rfp- Reamer sent I tino a Piea President Eisenhower to fore the twister hit and gave the Marion a disaster area 4. Urtldl lull dl UlbaMtrl dl naming. Hf Mld up (o Wocks Q( Police Patrol Area were under water. said the damaged area was about five or six blocks long and Floods Worst In 45 Years toll included a youth electrocuted in the basement of his home as tunity afforded here.

is naturally with regret that I leave Tom S. with its fine prin- Mr. Rill Howorth, its faculty. student body and the football was on fire and it seemed vent looting to come right over our Numerous high tension wires c. Thp urgtrp identified as he said- "Wp drovp to ihp in the area were ripped down.

A water, and ffs ana 1 Rnhert and saw a man in a plfklip truck barn approximately miles tT11ng actirn- Lt. Robert Hp suffmn, shock and northeast of Wichita was demol- E. Irons. 25, Westbury, Long Is land. N.Y.; and Lt.

Charis Poulos 22. Grand Island, both sta A Lubbock man. George Muweni ana me luoiuau contv, players and other athletes. My at Jfancp Alr Forcp Rase oarmar1 farn, nbnP an. emergency order gave wy got him ished and an unknown number of National Guardsmen and city ofii- Another witness Rill Clark, who livestock killed.

authority to evacuate endan- Police Dispatcher Bill Rldge. their homes. at FmH Okla an in- Harman farm, said the plane ap- way said reports indicated Sev-; hfthfr 11 nr not- Barnes. 57. was found shot stmctor death about 7 a.m.

today at his residence. 2207 6th St. Police were notified of the and Poulos a pilot, The Vance Public Information them the very hest To Supt. Williams, following Moore's resignation, told The Office said Irons was the stepson death by a Robert, In. who Avalanohe-Journal: of Mrs.

Walter Irons, Westbury. told investigators he found his fa- --jbe loss of Wilford Moore is bves in Enid. The couple mnd a a severe blow to the athletic pro- bad no children. Poulos. unmar- ullr KPaI a a aa at Tom s- Lubbock High ned, was the son of Mr.

and Mrs. gliit an School. In the Short time he has Poulos, Grand Island. nx n' been in Lubbock, Wilford has cs- Explosion tablished himself as an excellent coach and a great leader of bovs. student Pparpd have come down at an eral funnels hit the ground, but The levee on the Mississinewa 80-degree angle, said it looked he said he had no confirmation River has broken, flooding 60 to apart of those reports.

said a great number of tornado funnels were as though it was falling about 100 feet above the ground. 100 Beamer said in his telegram to the President. crest is expected to reach the IruuLe NeuLA Mrs. Barnes and a daughter and son-in-law. Mr.

and Mrs. D. Authorities at miles northeast Annual rebate of five per cent. third of the amount of taxes col- plus one per cent each year to a looted, the former city official maximum of 15 vears for he favored setting up the re- Harlow of Salt 1 ake Citv cm of Municipal Electric plant system as api incentive for, ha(j proposed to Lubbock City participation in the municipal tri to spr Rirming. boys participating in athletics and thrown from the house by th former bam.

Ala. They were reported thpy respected him for it. it wlU piosion following the crash. in favor of doing this even pn routp hornp tWg morning after be most difficult to secure a satis the scene, five Radio, TV of Ponca City. Markols He maintained high standards for said Mrs.

body was Thoators wYas Commission by a commissioner today A. J. Richardson, it means that we have to raiseirec in th Jh company owner who served as Richardson told the Com-1 1 message, city commissioner from 1933 to mission. 1937, presented the proposal at' Would Mean Tax Increase City Hall this morning, but City But City Manager H. P.

Clifton! hours, according replacement for Texas Polities Mrs. Harman's husband, Dick, Mr. was in the farm yard driving his Shot Once In Temple Rames appeared to have been faetorv Eek Curtis, athletic director of the T33 slammed info a corner of the Lubbock Public Schools, was Page Sec. 84 ms 4 fi 7 3 5 3 1 41 3 .........9 4 id gewav said. storm Wabash River through the cities clouds came from the southwest Huntington, abash and Peru, and moved slovvlv Die flood appears to be the worst Alert I.

Sounded Ridgcua. said the funnels lars nf was moved toward El Dorado. Beamer urged con- where a tornado Tuesday night sideration be given the possibil- took 17 lives and caused exten- ity of declaring the flooded re- sive home and property damage, gion a disaster area. Ridgeway said most of south Ppru HjSh churches, central Kansas was alerted bv and an American Legion home the weather bureau at about 11 were declared emergency evacua- Wednesda.v to expect torna- Lori stations. ots and blankets p.m.

does through 3 a.m. today. See FLOODS Page 10 Commission only took the pro-1 interrupted him to declare CT posai under advisement without rebate the profits of the Barnes Moore will replace owk Ford discussion during the morning would mean at least o0-cent in-' boimerly Amarillo, Baine. I had resided here about five vears Neches. Ford resigned I.

a i ii Thncp ntrHHmtincr in the and vvas a lithographer at Parks recently as coach to accent a post Incentive For Participation But those paibcipatmg in the as a srhonl administrator in the session. I crease in the fax rate. been reading and study-1 Municipal Electric plant now are Printing 1 ing a lot about the utilities situ- paying 30 per cent of the Lp PpacP George Richardson said, of those not Rich-! continuing invest- Raek in the middle 30s lookingiardson said. even pay-; to the expansion of Lubbock we ing 30 per cent of the utilities; igation of the case. The bodv was taken to Rix Fu- same system, which reepnth- was moved into Conference AAAA after several years in Class AAA.

Moore was awarded a i i where funeral ar- vear contract at Port Neches at tbouKh we eould have a tax taxes. are pending arrival definite advance in pay." He tewm alone about 1960. But now v011 would rpbate bills survivors. 'see MOORE Paee la am convinced that we were pPr CPn( the end of the year1 -----------------------------------------wrong. (plus onp per cent for each year) Then citing the fact that rove- participation, then thp nues from thp city electric plant transferred to thp general fund ent approximately one- LITTLE UIX foolish to worry about people think of you, because most of them seldom do.

tomers of thp electric plant would have some additional funds with which to pay their taxes. Could Apply On Taxes am told that 45 per cent the people do not participate in the municipal Richardson said. "That means that those who are customers are paying 30 per cent of their taxes. reimburse those persons! now being served by the plectric! plant on the basis of five per cent of their bills plus one per cent; up to a maximum of 15 years and people would have a saving ofi 20 per cent of their electric hi 11sj with which they eould apply to See CITY REBATE Page 10 Plumbing Firm Loses $100 Burglaries, Vandalism Are Reported To Lubbock Police Several business places reported burglaries and vandalism today, with losses estimated at almost $700. Reed Son, wholesale plumbing firm of 2222 19th told police $50 in cash and an equal amount in checks were taken from a box in a desk drawer Wednesday night.

A back window' was broken. Damage to a filing cabinet and other property at Cagle Tire Appliance 1519 Ave. was set at $300. A back door locking bar was forced and the hook bent, police said, and then a small hole was knocked in sheet- rock to the offices. A small amount of change and an assortment of merchandise valued at $130 were taken in the burglary of Dales Grocejw.

'710 4th St. Someone See B' RCLARLES Page 10 CANDIDATES FOR MISS LUBBOCK the 24 young women who vie for the title in connection with the Dollar Mail" which opened today. The pageant wilt be at 8 p. m. Friday and Saturday.

The girls from left to right, front row Barbara Cain, Margie Damron, Deanna Barbara Graham and Judy Frouiau. Second row: Beverly Woods, Martha Ann Williams, Mary ten, Mary Jane Cashion, Mary Lynn Peveto, Sandra Rita Riggs and Myran Thompson. Bark row, Jerrie Jill Enna McDaniel, Patricia Taylor, Barbara Hookef, Yvonne Skinner, Jill Welch, Nancy Baron, Bertha Weige, Mary ian Long and Joyce Lee Duncan. Photo-).