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SNAP SHOTS Around flip world, Fpeed of a jet, Newspaper, easy chair, Cigarette. (Uh? Harn CITY IH! IOS SIXTY-FIFTH 110 SEA Mrwspaptr Enterprise Association UPI I rilled ips Intprnational WACO, TEXAS. MONDAY MORMNC, MARCH 120, 196! PAGES PfPSf Ptapa ten Warn Newt Tribuna Waahlnfton Bureau Waco Austin Bureau SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS Theater At Bavlor Grant Ford Foundation Sets 4 -Year Plan The Baylor Theater is listed! among 24 university professional and community theaters which wilt share in a program sot tip by the Ford Foundation to cooperation among the theaters Tlie Ford Foundation, through McNeil Lowry, director of its progiam in Humanities and thp Arts. Sunday announced a grant of to be used in a four- year program to facilitate the exchange of and other thea- ter personnel and enable them to study each others' methods to make the theater more profes sionaJ tn training, creation and production. 13 Among the 13 representatives of New York, professional, regional, community, summer-stock and ac-! adeimc theaters who will guide the communications group are L.

Newell Tarrant, Baylor Theater! graduate who now directs the Playhouse in Ene, Pa and Nina Vance, director of the Alley Theater in Houston. Pat Brown former managing director of the Magnolia Theater in Long Beach, will be field director. Purpose of the grant is to remedy the lack of communication among Broadway, professional and non-professional theaters, to aid finding and developing new professional talent, and to assist young people seeking a theater career, who go off to New York or Los Angeles with only a vague idea of what professional exper-, ience they need or can obtain, Lowry said. Here and No specific allocation of funds to any of the recognized theaters has been made, Paul Baker, di- rector of Baylor Theater, said, but money will be spent at both Baylor Theater and the affiliated Dallas Theater Center. Baylor and the Dallas ('enter will he affected at least sev- era! "tasks" already suggested by the board of advi'-ore, enabling See GRANT, Page 5 Trial For Robbery Opens Today Former bank president and newspaper publisher towrence C.

Pope will go on trial today in U. S. District Court, Judge Ben Rice Jr. presiding. Pope is charged in the Nov.

5, 1960. armed robbery of the First Statp Bank in Thornton. Twelve jurors are to be chosen from a venire of Central Texans. They are to assemble at 9:30 a will be sworn in by Court Clerk T. Maxry Hart and then will be questioned by Pope attorney, Pat Maloney of San Antonio, and the government attorney, Key Hoffman, also of San Antonio.

Judge Rice declared Pope mentally competent to stand trial and to help his attorneys in his defense after Judge Rice held a four-hour sanity hearing here March 8 About 20 witnesses have been summoned to testify in die case. Pope, 42, had been vice president of a Houston bank and president of a West bank. He purchased newspaper plants in Gid dtngs and Lexington only one month before the Thornton bank robbery. Pope also faces state charges for robbery of a Sehulenburg bank a few days after the Thornton robbery. FBI men arrested Pope in San Antonio Nov.

17 at a motel. WEATHER tonight at sunrise tomorrow at 6:32, Forecast for Warn and vicinity 25 Uaidy to part lv cloudy today, tonight and day; not much change In ture. Maximum today, 54 minimum tonight, to Temperature: Highest, S3 de gives at 4 30 Wist, 43 degrees at 7 highest since Jan. 1, 86 degrees on March 12; lowest since Jan. 1, 17 degrees on Jan.

29; normal maximum this date, 69 degrees. Rainfall: For 24 hours ending at 6-30 p. trace; total this month. 110 inches; normal this 2.9-1 inches; normal for year to date, 6.72 inches; total since Jan 1, 10.79 inches; accumulated excess. 4.07 inches.

The river stage Sunday at 7:30 a m. was 8 4 feet. First quarter moon on March 23 at 8:49 p. m. Foot of Snow Dumped Over Panhandle, Plains FOIt LEO PAI fD.VEN UN, Congolese Join in Search LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo to have indulged in witchcraft and human sacrifice.

It aims to rule by magic powers and during the Nations and Gi- zcnga Congolese soldiers launched a joint military operation Sunday, Belgian colonial regime was to try to mop up roaming bands of fanatics terrorizing whites in Kivu Province, which has fallen into anarchy. heavily suppressed Members of Kiluawa believe that by killing a human being the strength of the victim passes to the murderer. Witch doctors of by their followers as being immortal and immune to the white bullets. STRANDED ISLANDERS FED UP WITH OATMEAL LERWICK, Shetland Islands 74 days no ship or has visited tiny Foula Island, west of here, and the 50 inhabitants of the little dot in the Atlantic are getting tired of a diet of oatmeal. Sea storms more persistent than anyone can rempmber have isolated the island.

Its little boat, Island Lass, which normally brings provisions, cannot cross the 25 miles of rough water from the Shetland Islands, and a 180-mile journey to the northernmost tip of Scotland is quite out of the question. But the islanders, 15 of them children under 15, are in touch by radiotelephone. Harry Gear, the postmaster, told reporters by telephone Sunday the situation is becoming critical, "We have no bread, milk, meat, green vegetables, butter, preserves or cigarets." Gear said. "Our one shop has been rationing the flour and oatmeal to a pound a person per day, and it's tiresome. "We ll meet tomorrow to decide whether to send out an emergency call for help by ship, plane, helicopter or anything.

We have not asked before because we did not want to put Shetland County to unusual Seas were still raging Sunday night. by 89 YEAR OLD REV. C. F. PEARCE OF HILLSBORO 'What's This About Faint Heart Ne'er Won Fatr or Never" Drive for Bail On Nuclear Arms Tests Slated CALISTHENICS K9 Retired Pastor Slavs Busy Learuinir and ritinsi Poems By JOHN BANT Waco Staff HILLSBORO Prophets of gloom cut any ice with Rev.

C. F. Pearce of Hillsboro. who spent more than half a century as a minister and who will be 89 years old in May. Pearce is a lively.

Inquisitive, studious little guy who look at all like nearing the four ore and 10 mark. He says he thinks the world is getnng better all the time; he great things store for mankind; and so busy he have time to worry about the aches and pains that sometimes hit. Daily Poems Pearce retired from preach ing 13 years ago. but he keeps himself busy studying religion and history. And he keeps somebody at the library of Congress busy sending him books on the subjects.

On top of this, he writes two or three poems a day. just as anxious to learn now as I was wlien I was 25 years old" he says. so much I know that I fee! ashamed of myself sometimes." Was Range Rider Pearce was born at Lizton, on May 17, 1872, the son of a farmer. When he was 12 years old his father moved the family there were six children to western Kansas in covered wagons. It took 36 days to make the trip and there were no roads or bridges.

When they got to Kansas they took up a homestead claim, Pearce grew up there, became a gun-totng range rider in the country just west of tough Dodge City, but always had an inclination toward books. "I practically educated myself until I got a certificate," he said. He started teaching when he was 19 and was married that same year. Liter he entered Christian University at Canton. now Culver-Stockton College, and paid his way through school preaching.

He got bachelor of arts, master of arts, and doctor of divinity degrees, and studied, among other Latin, Hebrew and seven years of Greek This thorough grounding in languages qualified him later to teach Greek in college for a year. Also, he got hold of a Spanish book, studied if. learned the language, and when World War I came along A heavily armed force of 150 Malayan troops and 50 Congolese soldiers was organized at the N. Ithe cult are looked upon base at Kmdu for the 200-mile drive against the pagan terrorists, who seem to be descendants least the jungle Leopard Men, killers all I The military column is expect-; ed to take 24 hours to reach the Kasongo area, where the wild bow and arrow- gangs are concen-j trated and where about 30 white persons are believed to be ly at the mercy of tlie fanatics, It is the first time U. troops and soldiers owing allegiance to GENEVA (UPI) Diplomats ing of control stations and of in- the leftist Stanleyville regime of said Sunday that the United States 1 soection teams comoosition of the Gizenga have cooperated and Bntam would push a and length of the moratorium on ma, jor tests while research on the factor ending chaos and law- ban with Russia at the resumption iessness in Kivu.

of long drawn-out. talks here on A U. N. spokesman put the Tuesday, strength of the cult around Ka- They said that the allied position songo at several hundred. They was based on three factors: are armed with bows and arrows, the Americans have barbed lances and homemade structions from President Kenne- i guns fashioned out of steel tubing to seek an early conclusion to and door bolts.

Around their the talks, perhaps by early heads they wear strips of leopard mer. A TK1 skin, and their professed intention the would make no A is to kill all whites. dramatic new offers would be II I lit II A U. N. spokesman described prepared to make certain compro- the cultists as Kartelites, but thus mises on the basis of substantial is a loose term, and experienced Congo experts believe the gangs belong to a sect known as Kiiu- awa.

This is a mafia-like that would jeopardize West-! gram, including a five-year $7 bil are hopeful it may prove a major ment on a nuclear weapons test Warnings For More Announced By The Associated Press A fast moving late-winter for the death of five men in a plane crash 1 dumped as much as 12 inches on Texas Sunday, crippling traffic and capping telephone poles. The Weather Bureau issued heavy snow warnings for Sunday night and Monday morning for an area which includes Southwest Kansas, Western Oklahoma, the I Texas Panhandle and the South Plains area of Texas. An additional four to six inches of snow was expected to accumulate over these areas by early Monday morning. At 8 30 p. snow again started i to fail at Amarillo and other points in West Texas and the handle, The unexpected storm on the last day of winter was blamed for the deaths of five men.

They died when their plane crashed about midnight Saturday 17 miles southeast of Signal Peak in the rugged Guadalupe Mountains as snow, had detection of smaller underground explosions is continued. To Demand The sources said that the United and winds raked the JFK to Ask Five-Year States would stand firm on its demand for 20 on-site inspections annually of suspicious seismograph readings of what have been described as "tremors" in Russia All of the victims in the wreckage of the plane Sunday were from £11 Paso. They were identified as James E. Nord, owner of the plane; Lejandro Mora, Derryl Moreover, the Russians will be Hammock, William Jacobs, told that they cannot staff Manuel C. Mora, tion teams in their own territory Twelve inches of snow blocked highways for a time around Tuiia as the snow covered the Panhandle, South Plains and across southeastern New Mexico to El Soviet concessions.

dent Kennedy will send to there would be no pollti- gross Tuesday plans for a major eal horse-trading and no conces- overhaul of the foreign aid pro- with their own nationals. They i have maintained that they must I select their own inspectors in order to guard against spying. 1 The position is that the Paso, the Guadalupe Mountains Russians may escort such teams, and the Big Bend country. WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi- but that they cannot conduct the Amounts ranged from a light coat- actual inspect.on in Soviet terri- mg upwards to 12 inches, tory. The sources said that Britain and the United States mam ization which the past is knowm; ern security.

Well informed sources said that writhm this framework chief U. S. negotiator Arthur H. Dean has I coordinated strategy with i British. The conference, which: See MAN, Page 5 Polish Cardinal Flares Hark al Commie Chief WARSAW Poland (API The Hand and carrying out fight twn most powerful men in Poland head of the Communist party and the primate of the Roman Catholic into direct and open conflict Sunday for the first time since 1956.

"I tell you that against communism at the cost of Fifth Babv Dies In Hospital's Formula Mixup REGINA, Sa.sk, (AP) Sunday in a Republican Congressman Dies at 71 WASHINGTON Congressman Carroll Reece of Tennessee, former national Republican chairman and a member of the powerful Rules Committee died Sunday in the U. S. Naval Hospital at nearby Bethesda. Md Reece, a lawyer, banker and publisher from Johnson City in solidly Republican first district, died at the age of 71 of lung cancer complicated by pneumonia. He was admitted to the hospital on March 9.

A long-standing member of the conservative coalition on the Another House Rules Committee. Reece's i lion development fund and bonuses for countries that adopt Democratic social reforms. Administration officials who disclosed the outlines of the Kennedy plan acknowledged that it faced an uphill fight in Congress, which has insisted on a year-to-year control of the aid program. Kennedy wiU ask for both annual authorizations primarily for "defense grants to financially weak allies ami the Above Freezing In midafternoon, however, Tu- tained that the same rule should lia Police Chief Alvin Roberts said apply to inspections in their ter- temperatures were above freezing ritory. and the snow was melting.

All roads were open and there were no persons stranded or in need of help, he said. I To farmers in the area the snow brought long-needed moisture, snow is a life said Lewis Redmon. a wheat farmer seven miles west of Tuiia. "Before this snow we hadn't had an inch of moisture this year. It's CUCAMONGA, Calif.

A worth a nuiiion dollars or more four children iarmers in this (Swisher) Six Killed As Train Smashes Car WASHINGTON UPI put into nursery-bottie by mistake. The solution was thought to be distilled water because it was so szynaki in jeering tones. "Satan dear whether he had known of is mighty, but man will not bow Gomulka's speech and intended his head before him." his own as a rebuttal. But his statements Sunday were The cardinal, speaking in a Sun- dearly a reply to Gomulka. day morning sermon amid a ---------------------------steadily heightening churvh-stati II.ia struggle denied an accusation i made by Communist chief1 HOLLYWOOD (AP) Smger- lady slaw Gomulka actress Gisele Mackenzie gave to tar plans concentrated on organized crime and price-fixing in the business mst Albania world.

illness kept him from the House the hierarchy here. He denied the hospital where boracic acid was during this session oi Con- government is persecuting the put into nursery-bottie formulas Kress except for two votes against General Robert F. Kennedy said Slav Communist party news the successful Sunday he fight to enlarge the committee, crackdowns Reece voted once in the Rules Committee and once on the House floor against the administration plan to increase the Hr also said that within the membership and thereby overpow-j couple of weeks" the Juser conservatives who coual have Department probably will kept the administration program from coming to a vote. to empower death was not expected federal agents to break up inter- to change the new Rules Commit- state crime communications, inter alignment since the GOP prob-1 eluding dissemination of gambling will appoint persecuting church. at Retrrat The cardinal, speaking at a Izcntcn retreat minutes later, said labeled on the jug that held it at will bow to your God and you will he would not offer any defense i the Grey Nuns llospital here.

Ten serve only Him and no one else "against the charge that the of the hospital's 45 babies got the declared Stefan Cardinal church is a It wax not wrong mixture Two died Friday and two more Saturday. Five appear to be recovering. Rda Fortier, sister superior at the hospital, said replacement blood transfusions were given to ailing infants when the doctors first began to realize something was wrong, She said distilled water and boracic acid jugs in the formula room are the same size, but the water jugs are clear instead of Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Sun- amber. Police and hospital au- opened Oct. 31, 1938, has been recessed for three months to allow the Kennedy administration time to prepare for it.

The sources said that the West would open the talks by concentrating on the issues which have thpNon re'Tte'Tst Is the new five-year authority to pledge jman and fe an(i dispute oveMpst barTcontrols. The grant, to U.S.-pprov- I a mounta.n picnic were; issues to be settled include the ed development plans. hrt broadside by a fast-movmg get number of on-site inspections to Total spending on evonomir and fre-gM tram at a railroad cross- the stiff- military aid, which Kennedy wantf mg Sunday. All six were killed. Kign winds that gusts to budget separately, would be of two of the UP t0 mijes early around the billion a year fig- foiling in another car, watched visibility to zero at a ure proposed by the Eisenhower i as ihe skimmed into the, number ot administration in its final budget and scattered wreckage and Highway last January.

Kennedy gradually mangled bodies 144 feet down the L-S- west of Ama- would the economic aid track. riUo was closed for a while early share of this total to 60 or 65 per Thp highway patrol identified i several buses and a wnt the dead as: John Herron, 29, of I oi trucks and cars were Norwalk; his wife, Audrey, 30; staked heavY around wr 'heir two children, Kathleen, 5. Wr'an- However, by mid-after- 1 urjre Under av md BiUy, 4, and two children of noon highway was reopened. BELGRADE (AP)-The Yugo- two other families, Edward state highway department nox. 3, and Dm Fuller, 5, a girl, I however, that traveling guard against cheating Pi Fac es Tough Crackdown Borba reported Sunday night a Mr.

and Mrs. James Lennox of sections of the Panhandie purge of the army and admir Downey and Mr. ami Mrs, George and Plains was tration is under way in Commu- Fuller of Norwalk were a car and should to emergen- i following Good Morning ably conservative Vatican. The cardinal said instructions to him have always been: "Poland acts on its own," Gomulka came to power 1956 after the tough Stalinist regime crumbled He negotiated an uneasy truce with the Roman Catholic Church, The Communist major concession to the church was to religious in st ruction by priests in schools. Most Poles are Roman Catholics Reform Program In January the Communist party adopt ed a school-refor pro- gram believed aimed at eliminating religious instruction from the classroom by 1963 The atheist newspaper Argu- menty then church sources con the Vat i lean had given Cardinal Wy-! szynski special powers to impose; fighter discipline on priests.

This apparently was aimed at priests w'ho have grown less militant toward Communist authorities and at pseudo Catholic friendly with the regime. I Gomulka. a speech Saturday! opening the campaign for the April 16 national elections, ac-1 cused the Vatican of trying to! day The child was her first. Her husband is Bob Shuttle worth. The boy was named Mackenzie Duffy.

thorities were investigating to learn how the acid got into a clear bottle Jl ST LIKE ilMY Lx-uen. Gavin rmds riling All Fouled I PARIS seemed to go right at the arrival reception Sunday for James Gavin, new U. ambassador to France, But Gavin, smiling easily after a A planning error put the official Frenrit greeting party, rm- ba.s£y newsmen ami photographers at the wrong spot on the platform. 1310 ambassador, nervous start, moved through the looking out of the open tram win. confusion at St.

re Railroad dow, aeenved startled by the light with diplomatic aplomb, i oi dtcr The amhassHdor, his wife and four attractive daughters arrived on the boat train from Le Havre, they deharked earlier in wished away sea of nulling tlw day from the liner United and tram After the train stopped, a care- fully placed reception Ime was minded legislator to succeed him. Baylor Gives Bear lo am Baylor bear pit getting bare. At any rate, one bear irr it. Baylor Qiamber of Commerce officials Saturday delivered Dusty, one of the twin mascots for 19u9, to his new home at the Texarkana, Texas, zoo, That leaves Baylor with three bears, Rusty, Burney and Nip, the wily female C-C officials gave Dusty away because they want more roo a in the bear pit. They are seeking another femaie, Toe Baylor C-C wants new arrivals to art mascots to' lor.

They explained that bear cubs, alter odf' year, usually arc too large for a trainer to manage. Red Diplomat Die- MOSCOW (i PI) The death i of Boris Stein, noted Soviet dtplo- mat for two after the Bolshevik revolution, was ed Sunday a press information. The attorney general said he no longer would press for creation of a national crime commission. "I think we are able to accomplish a good number of those things that I thought should be done through a national crime commission within the department of he aaid. "I think there is still some use for it and certainly be opposed to it," the former Senate Rackets Committee counsel said, "but I am not as strong for it as I had teen in the I ROOTS a rare display attd leftist Congolese forces, of cooperation, joined for a Rerrv to I1 ote tiorbe Kacinjr SAN ANTONIO (UPI) state Rep.

(Red) Berry of Bexar County said Stinday night he introduce his horse-racing bill for i a floor vote in the lower chamber at 11 a. m. Tuesday us scheduled Berry s.ud he to "talk to some of the good ministeri and set if they can convince me of tteir side of it and I may postpone it altogether or perhaps later go ahead and it in march on terrorist fanatics in Kivu Province Polish cardinal, in open conflict with Communist chief, warned will bow to Rep. B. Carroll Reece, longtime GOP leader, died The S.

and Britain prepared a or drive for agreement at the nuclear test ban talks. A FROGMAN swam under the V. S. nuclear submarine tender Proteus, scratched his initials on the hull and then derided F. S.

security Gen, James Gavin, now an ambassador, found things just like the ail fouled he arrived in Paris to take up his new job Six persons were killed as a train hit a car in California A fifth baby died as result of being fed contaminated formula in a Canadian hospital. cy trips. Long distance telephone lines were snapped in the Littlefield Muleshoe, Giton, Brownfield, and Levefiand areas, cutting off those towns for approximately 8 hours early Sunday. At Plan view where more than seven inches fell, tree limbs, snapped by the heavy, wet snow, clogged streets. Snow fell for 16 hours Sunday at Amarillo and by 7:15 when it halted, four inches had fallen.

Silverton, southeast of Amarillo, got 8S inches of snow. By Sunday night all roads in the area were open. Temperatures varied only two provoke "the persecution and Loan 31 of the church in Po 1 State Wrong Spul Carefully laid arrival plans went awry from the start tiet readv for Spring wiih a HUM NATIONAL BANK Home ember onlookers As Gavin stepped off the train, Emanuel de deputy chief of protocol for the French Foreign Office, wax still pushing his way past a ring of photographers See GAVIN, Page 5 Waco Will Says: good Start the week with a word for Waco. Your port con help your city grow. STORM chose the last full day of winter to spread up to a foot of snow over the Panhandle and South Plains and warnings called for more snow during the night Five Paso men were killed tn a plane crash near Van Horn Bing wife said she would help her father in his race for the U.

S. Senate and the Tyler Couner-Times-Telcgraph endorsed William A. Blakley for the job. BH 1.0R 1 IV was named to share in a program set up by the Ford Foundation to improve cooperation among the theaters The bank robbery trial of Lawrence C. Pope begins here today A retired Hillsboro minister, nearly 89, keeps busy studying and writing daily poems.

See SNOW. Page 5 Swallows Back At Capistrano SAN Jt VN (AP) The came back to Capistrano Sunday and About 2.000 eariy birds watching for them. The crowd gathered tn the morning hours to await the return from South Americ.au, by legend always taking place on St. Day, March 19. And although a few dozen were around the mission is by longtime flew in Sunday toon after the vanguard was spotted at 5 51) a m.

More wul arrive over the next few operating on a less rigid t.metable than.