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Downtown Pans Plans Shopping' Tonight Until 8 O'clock INDEX Sj Comics TI-4 Editorials 1-6 fe Hospitals Mf Markets Sports 1-7 fs TV Log T-6 Want Ads Women's News 1-4 J4 SINCE JAN. IN LAMAR Traffic 1 Traffic Injuries 9 YEAR. NO. 224 AP Leased 5c PARIS, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 23, 1961 Boost Plan For Africa Due at UN UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Kennedy administration unveils new proposals today for a U.N.

program to boost the economy and education level of Africa. The proposals were to be put before the General Assembly's main political committee at the start of debate on the help-to- Africa proposal made, last fall by President Eisenhower. Sources closs to the U.S. delegation said the new administration plans considerable changes in the Eisenhower program, winch never reached the resolution stage. The delegation has been circulating a tentative resolution among the African nations for the past week, trying to formulate a plan that will give the Africans what they need and want rather (ban what other nations think they ought to hate.

A source close to the Soviet delegation said the Soviets would study the plan as presented by U.S. chief delegate Adlai E. Stevenson before taking a stand. The original Eisenhower plan hinged on five main points: 1. Noninterference in the internal affairs of the African countries.

Help in assuring their security without wasteful and danger- competition in armaments. 3. Emergency aid to the Congo. 4. International assistance in shaping long-term African development programs.

5. U.N. aid for education. Stevenson conferred again with Soviet Foreign Andrei A. Gromyko on for resumption- of disarmament negotiations and Third Jury Has Finch Trial Now LOS ANGELES jury of 10 men and 2 women starts work today on an assignment two previous juries failed to complete- reaching a Verdict in the Finch- Tregoff murder case.

Jurors in the third trial of Dr. R. Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff received the case late Wednesday after more than two of testimony. But deliberations were delayed and the jury was locked up in a hotel for a night of rest. Dr.

Finch, 43, and Miss Tregoff, 24, the doctor's secretary-mistress, are accused of murder and conspiracy in the July 18, 1959, gunshot death of Finch's socialite wife, Barbara Jean, 36. The first two trials ended in deadlocked juries. In California, conviction of first- degree murder is punishable by life imprisonment or death in the gas the jury's discretion. The second-degree count carries a penalty of five years to The penalty on the conspiracy charge is the same as first-degree murder. told newsmen that the U.S.

and Soviet governments seem the new negotiations should take place in Geneva, where the last 10-nation talks ended in a Soviet walkout last June 27. Earlier the Soviets and Americans reportedly had agreed the talks would start in August, but Stevenson said there still were differences over the makeup of the new negotiating group, the starting date and basic principles to govern the talks. On the Congo front, diplomatic sources said pressure is being brought on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to ease Rajeshwar Dayal of India out of his post as head of the U. N. Congo operation.

A U.S. delegation spokesman declined comment on reports that his government had joined in the suggestions that Dayal be replaced. EIGHTEEN PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS ESTABLISHED 1869 A BOTTLE THAT probably familiar with canned chicken, but now you see bottled rooster. The white Leghorn rooster has spent all of his BVz weeks of life in this five-gallon bottle. A wide-eyed Everett Price watches the bird that is on exhibit at the Sarasota, county fair.

The rooster was raised in the bottle by Jonas.Y, Yoder. (AP Wirephoto)' VOTING HEARS Senate Campaign Race Quickening By CLAYTON H1CKERSON Associated Press Staff Writer With scarcely more than a week to work, Texas' 71 candidates for the U.S. Senate quickened the pace of their campaign Thursday, 65 lesser known aspirants almost drowned out by the so-called "big six." A tired, state Sen. Henry Gonzalez was back in Austin at his Senate duties after a round trip' automobile jaunt to San Angelo that was delayed two hours by car trouble. Also in Austin was interim Sen.

William Blakley who planned to attend a reception in his honor and confer with Gov. Price Daniel, the man who appointed h'im to the Senate seat. Blakley planned to go to San Antonio later in the day. Rep. Jim Wright spdnt most of the day in Dallas.

An appreciation dinner, for which supporters said 10,000 tickets had been sold, was set for Wright Thursday night with the candidate's speech to be rebroadcast over a special statewide network. Channel 8 of Dallas will telecast the same speech Friday night at 6:30 p.m. Republican candidate John Tower, joined by Rep. Bruce Alger, Dallas' GOP congressman, made plans to be in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Friday for a round of appearances capped by a downtown Brownsville rally Friday night. Tower spoke Thursday night at a $10-a-plate dinner in Abilene.

Blakley, Gonzalez and Maury Maverick Jr. all campaigned in San Angelo Wednesday, Blakley arriving first in his two-engine plane, Maverick next in his single- engine aircraft, and Gonzalez arriving two hours late in his crippled station wagon. Maverick and i QT Valley M( Set in Paris The future development of the main valley of the Red River from Etenison Dam to Full Ark. will bt aired in a public 'hearing in Paris on April 26. The Corps of Engineers called meeting today, upon direction of Col.

Howard W. Penney, engineer for the Tulsa District. It will be held at 9:30 a.m. at Nicholson House. Navigation, bank flood control and preservation of land along Red River will' head discussion.

Representatives of towns and counties within the covered are expected to be jprcsont. meeting is of called by the Corps of; Eiigtaecrs 'hearings', on the'main valley oi the Red River. Others Will be at Alexandria, and April 21 at' Shreveport, cpver the part or the Red River Valley below Fulton, Ark. A complete survey; of the main of the Red: River-is being made by the 'Corps of Engineers by the authority listed below: "Resolved by the Committee on Public Works of the United States Senate, That the Board of Engineers for Riveri and Harbors, created under Section 3 of the River and Harbor Act, approved June .13, 1902, be, and is hereby requested to- review' the report on Red River, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, submitted in House Document No. 320, 80th Congress, 1st Session, with a viesv to determining the desirability of developing a comprehensive, integrated plan of improvement by means of levees, bank stabilization, and channel improvement for navigation, flood control, and preservation of, land in the main valley of Red River; Provided, that Federal projects for reservoirs now constructed and in operation, under construction, authorized for construction, or not in conflict with main valley features that hereafter may be authorized substantially in accordance with reports currently, before or that may hereafter come before the Set MEET, Page 2 Col.

Blakley earlier had been at. Abilene while Gonzalez attended a Senate session in Austin. 'All three, went through a round of appearances including hotel receptions, radio and television appearances, and banquets. Gonzalez told San Angelo radio and TV audiences he would, vote to make San Angelo -College a four-year school. He said Atty.

Gen. Will Wilson Avas his most serious threat in the race but that the San Angelo area needed Gonzalez to help keep the bracero farm program -from breaking down. Maverick praised the Kennedy administration in and the Peace Corps in particular. He said the Peace Corps would serve to get uncommitted countries in the cold war to side with the United States. Blakley, who conferred with his Washington office by telephone while in San Angelo, told a meeting of bankers he was "definitely opposed to federal aid to He added that the Federal Government had no business in education.

Bank Robbery Draws 25 Years WACO former banker and weekly newspaper publisher, who said robbing banks and making the employes pose in the nude "was fun while it lasted," is under a 25-year prison" sentence. It look a federal district court only 35 minutes Wednesday to find Lawrence Pope, 42, guilty of bank robbery. Federal Dist. Judge Ben H. Rice promptly sentenced him to the maximum prison term.

Pope published weekly newspapers at the South Central Texas towns of Giddings and Lexington. He had worked at banks in Dallas, Abilene and other places. Rice could also have fined Pope $10,000 in addition to the prison term but did not. Five defense witnesses went to the stand in an attempt to prove Pope insane when he robbed the First State Bank of Thornton of $1,744 last November. But as the jury filed from the courtroom, Mrs.

Pope broke into tears. She had testified that she believed her husband insane since he lost a job as president of a Central Texas bank. Pope's attorney, Pat Maloney, and Pope himself both told Judge Rice before the sentencing that they had nothing to say. WEATHER NORTHEAST TEXAS: Generally fair Friday. A little warmer in west tonight and in most sections da v' aB5 LOW 1 IGI 5 iSh Frl OKLAHOMA: Fair today and sllBhtly warmer Friday.

Hlsh today 6S-70. Low tonight 38-45. Weather Bureau in. formation for the 24-hour period at a.m. Thursday courtesy of Observer W.

J. Thomas. High temperature 63. Low temperature 41. No rainfall.

Tola! rainfall to date; this year 4.81 Inches. Total rainfall to Ihln date last year 6.B7 Inches. 1 Humidity 73 per cent. Barometer' 30.25 and steady. STOKES OPEN HERE TONIGHT UNTIL P.M.

The first in a series'of "Family Shopping Nights" is planned by downtown Paris merchants tonight. They'll remain open until 8 p.m. The late opening is for the convenience of working people, out-of-town shoppers and for families who want to shop together. Shopping Nights" for Paris are planned for -the Thursday of each month, and have been approved by the Retail Division of the Chamber of Commerce. JFK Appears Speeding Military Toward Policy Statement Due Tonight Over Crisis WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy apparently began speeding U.S.

military units toward crisis-wracked Southeast Asia today in the crucial hours of a diplomatic showdown with Russia over the embattled kingdom of Laos. Kennedy is' expected to issue a major U.S. policy statement on the Laotian crisis at a news conference p.m. EST. Meanwhile the President asvait- ed some reaction from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to an urgent appeal from Britain tor agreement to a cease-fire in the civil war in Laos.

Given a cease- fire, the Western, powers accept a Communist-backed proposal for an international conference on Laos. The last-minute move on the diplomatic front was made by Britain after consultation with the United States. It kept open the road for a negotiated settlement and put the next step up to Khrushchev. Meanwhile the reported military moves underscored Kennedy's determination to deal with the Communist threat by force if diplomacy fails. One of the tightest secrecy clampdowns since the Korean War shut off Pentagon information on military moves.

1 Authorities here said privately, however, that some of those moves were clearly precautionary steps, others were designed to begin, substantial--increase' in' U.S. military assistance to the royal Laotian government. At Hong Kong the U.S. aircraft carrier Midway and two destroyers suddenly departed for an un- disclosed destination days ahead of schedule. They were believed heading tor the waters of Southeast Asia.

Speculation immediately broke out that other units of the U.S. 7th Meet, ordinarily stationed in the Philippines-Formosa area were moving south. The Marines were reported sending a helicopter maintenance unit of 100 to 150 men to Udorn, Thailand, 50 miles from Vientiane, capital of Laos. The number of American-made helicopters available to the Laos government for military use was reported increased from 6 to 20. There were reports here that various units of the Strategic.

Army alerted for movement on'a precautionary basis, though STRAC itself denied there was any special YOUTH SAYS GIRL ASKED TO BE SHOT ODESSA high school boy kissed his former girl friend goodbye, he told officers, and then blasted her to death with a shotgun she held to her temple. Local police and officers of neighboring Winkler County tried today to get more information from Mack Herring, 17, about the death of Elizabeth Jean Williams, also 17. Bui County Sheriff L. B. Eddins said at Kermit, that Herring only answered, "She asked me'to do it." Eddins quoted the youth as saying the girl had asked others to kill her previously.

The boy was charged by Eddins with murder with malice Wednesday night after he led officers to a farm pond and pulled the pajama-clad body of his classmate from four feet of water. She had a shotgun blast wound in the head. The pond where tlie shooting occurred was near the seen eof the shooting, about 30 miles northwest of here in Winkler County. Young Herring was held in the Winkler County' jail i lieu of $10,000 bond. Lead weights were tied to the body of Elizabeth Jean when Herring pulled her from the water.

Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Williams of Odessa, reported her missing from her bedroom at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday. Odessa officer Pt.

McAlpine Wilkinson Named JFK Physical Fitness Aide WASHINGTON an Pros i- dent Kennedy named Charles (Bud) Wilkinson, athletic director and football coach at the University of Oklahoma, today as special consultant to the President on physical fitness. The announcement said Wilkinson will serve without compensation for an indefinite period, but will fulfill his coaching duties at Oklahoma during spring training and. the fall football season. Wilkinson had conferred with Kennedy in the White House. The announcement said Wiikin- son will start at once to confer with governmental agencies and private organizations and groups outside the government with a view to formulation of a youth fitness program "to meet the demonstrated need for action in this field." arrested the youth in a classroom at Odessa High School, the same school Elizabeth Jean attended, Wednesday morning.

Herring told officers the girl went to bed about 11:30 Tuesday night and that he came to the house for her early Wednesday, less than an hour after she retired. He said Elizabeth Jean left without her parents' knowledge. Eddins quoted the boy as saying that the couple had not dated recently but that "we did year." After they parked near the pond, the youth related, Elizabeth Jean asked him to kill her, but to kiss her goodbye first. She persisted when he refused, the youth told officers, so finally "I kissed her goodbye." said, he pulled the trigger of the gun as she held the barrel to her temple. Later, officers theorized, the boy became frightened, weighted the body, dumped it into the pond, and drove back to Odessa.

Checks Pile Up On Paris Ring The siring of worthless checks continued to pour into the Lamar County Attorney's Office today in connection with the re9ent breakup of a hot check ring. Five checks totaling $121 were received overnight Wednesday to run the lota! to more than $490 for 19 checks. A third member of the seven- man ring was arrested a 1 Thursday morning by the Paris Police Department. A charge of theft over tho value of $5 and under the value of $50 was against Nolan Ray Pate, a West Kaufman Street resident. Charges had been filed earlier against a Sherman man and a San Antonio man.

Other arrests are expected in the near future. The ring has been using an unusual method of attempting to beat the hot check law; Members would write checks to each other and pass them, (hen refuse press charges when the chec bounced. The Attorney's of fice said'-the'pattern of the checks indicated a conspiracy to unlawlul- ly and fraudently obtain money, thus the charge of over $5 and under $50, BY WEST Laos Plan By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The West edged cautiously today toward a Soviet peace plan for Laos. Britain, in a note delivered to Moscow partly on the initiative of the United States, accepted the Soviet proposal for an international conference on the Soviet Union first helps secure an effective truce in the torn Southeast Asia kingdom. the U.S.

aircraft carrier Midway arid two destroyers steamed out of Hong Kong on a few hours raising belief 'Feet Dragging' Charges Made AUSTIN (AP)-House members took up the hotly contested firemen's arbitration bill (HB14) today -after being sharply chastized by Rep. Lloyd Martin for "dragging our feet this session." Before getting to the firemen's bill, by Rep. Robert Hughes, Dallas, another touchy subject was postponed until 6. Rep. Steve Burgess, Nacogdoches, asked postponement of a House bill (HB61) selling stern standards for imported milk.

similar Senate bill kept the House upset most of yesterday. Martin's 'outburst over House action came when Rep. George Richardson, Forl Worth, asked approval of a resolution (HSR244) inviting television star Richard Boone to address the legislature. The measure previously was approved by the House Rules Committee. "This just congratulates Boone for playing his part as Paladin and invites him to speak to us while making a series of TV films at Bracketville," Richardson explained.

"I'm a great admirer of this television personality but Tbelieve we are indulging in more levity than is becoming to this body," Martin said. A crowd of about 100 League of Women Voters from throughout the state sat in the spectators 1 gallery. have reached the this session where we are beginning to drag our feet," Martin said. He was interrupted by Richardson. The Fort Worth legislator asked that his resolution be withdrawn from further consideration.

The Senate today passed and sent to Gov. Price Daniel two House-approved measures. One (HB265) allows the Department of Agriculture io fix fees for testing weighing devices used by farmers and the other (HB54) permits the Texas Water Development Board to invest about $250,000 it has now in cash in interest beating deposits; Sen. George Parkhouse of Dallas got a 28-0 vole on the water bill and the agriculture bill passed on voice vote. ihey-had been alerted for action case an East-West showdown.

Unconfirmed reports said other U.S. 7th Fleet units -were heading outh toward the; Indochina'coast. U.S. military officials said in Washington the anti-Communist Southeast Asia Treaty military strategists are now meeting in Bangkok, throw about 4,000 iattle-ready troops into Laos on short notice if Premier Boun Oum's pro-Western government needs urgent help in his battle against pro-Communist Fathet Lao rebels. The sudden departure of 2,000 U.S.

Marines from Tokyo led to speculation they were being returned to their Okinawa base in preparation for any A responsible source jn Bangkok said a Marine maintenance unit is being stationed at Thailand, to service Helicopters supplying the Le.ouan 'army. Udorn, is about 50 miles south of Vientiane, the capital. President Kennedy, who has increasingly tough stand on Laos as the current rebel. of- fcsiye in. Laos gained victory victory after is -expected to make a major U.S.

policy statement on the crisis today. Balmy Weather Is Continuing By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Texas' siege'of beautiful weather, bathing the state in sunshine since the first full day of Spring, continued Thursday. Forecasts indicated the balmy weather would continue at least through Friday with "mild temperatures and no rain. There was early morning fog at Corpus Christi Thursday and some cloudy skies from Laredo southward along the Rio Grande, but the rest of the state was cloudless. EXPOSITION Kfi-RCH EXPOSITION BOOSTER Mike Bowden, 10-year-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Bovvden, 648-12th NE, displays posters announcing the Scout Exposition. The Exposition will be held Saturday at the Fairgruund Coliseum from 5 to 8 p. rh. More than 400 Cub, Boy and Explorer Scouts are participating in the event, Tickets to the Exposition are 50 cents each.

(Paris News Staff Photo).