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INDEX Comics 8 Sports 7 Churches 3 TV Log 7. Editorials 4 Want 10 Radio Programs 4 Women's News 5 RAIN, SNOW, COLDER 88Hi YEAR. NO. 196 AP Uaied PARIS, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1958 TWELVE PAGES ESTABLISHED Snow Ushers In New Cold Front Today By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Light snow fell intermittently over the Panhandle and South Plains of Texas Friday as a new cold front moved into the state. A heavy snow was falling at Electra in the Wichita Falls area, on top of earlier snow and rain that iced over that portion of North Texas.

Visibility was cut to 2 city blocks. Snow ranged up to 8 inches at Clayton, N.M., and U.S. 87 north of there was closed. The Amarillo Weather Bureau School Board Election Set Here April 5 The annual election to fill two spots on the Paris Independent School District's Board of Trustees has been set for Saturday, April 5. Terms of two present board members, Dr.

Courtney Townsend and Walter Bassano, expire this year. Dr. Townsend will complete his second term. Bassano his first. Bassano has indicated a willingness to serve again if re-elected.

Officials pointed out that deadline for filing for candidacy in the school board election is 30 days prior to the election date. That would make the deadline March 5. Five members of the Board of Trustees do not come up for reelection this year. revised downward to little more than 1 inch an earlier forecast of 4 inches by nightfall. Police and safety officials warned again of hazardous driving conditions.

Most of an earlier snow up to 6 inches had melted, except in drifts, in the Amarillo area. Winds up to 25 miles per hour were blowing. The snow had reached almost an inch at Dalhart, Childress and Amarillo. Vernon reported snow falling on earlier ice and snow that had only partially melted. It was winter's thrid icy blow in three days.

Eight Texas deaths have been attributed to the weather this week. The Weather Bureau in Kansas City issued livestock and travel- lers warnings for a great area from east Wyoming and west Nebraska to west Oklahoma and northeast New Mexico. The advisory said the hardest- hit section in the snow-blasted area would be the central High Plains from west Nebraska into the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. Winds were expected to blow the snow into deep drifts in many places with blasts up to 40- miles per hour. The snow at Amarillo began Friday at 4:47 a.

m. and at Dalhart a few minutes earlier. Light rain was falling at the time in Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, and College Station. Austin had rain and drizzle. All the state was cloudy except the far West Texas section including Wink and El Paso.

RARE WHITE COAT Unusual snow all blankets City Park in New Orleans as sub-freezing temperatures preserved the white coat. Up to two inches of snow were recorded in the New Orleans area, the he aviest since 1895 and the first measurable snow in twenty years. (AP Wirephoto). SAFE-CRACK CASE IS SOLVED HERE Last weekend's International Harvester Company safe-cracking was broken here today. Sheriff Dan Bills has the confession of a 28 year old Gladewater man, but Lamar County tvill have to stand In line to prosecute him.

The' suspect also is implicated in a swath of 16 other burglaries and safe crackings across Tex-, as. Bills and Texas Ranger Red Arnold of Mt. Pleasant drove to Center, Texas, on Thursday to question the suspect and two companions who are in jail there. Coffee Break A. M.

Aikin in a F. E. Swint going to work Earl Gulhrie paying a bill Bramble looking for a parking place Norment dressed for rain that't It for Friday. They said readily admitted the Paris job. In a statement signed before witnessing officers, the suspect told how he and a 23 year old companion drove into Paris about 10 p.

m. last Saturday. He admitted dropping off his tools at the International Harvester building, then going uptown. Later, shortly before 11 p. m.

the suspect related, he had the other man drive him to the city limits. From there he admitted walking across the pasture to International Harvester, opening the rear door with a crow bar and knocking the knob on the safe. The first charge of nitro jelly failed to open the safe door, the suspect said, and a second charge didn't complete the job. He said he finally had to use a crow bar to remove the fire door. Twice during 'the safe cracking, the suspect related, he had to stop work when patrolling officers stopped near the building on routine checks.

The man said he finally got the safe open, rifled it of more than $400, then fled across the pasture south of the building. He said he Sec SAFE Page 9 Col. 8 raq, Jordan Merge Today AMMAN, Jordan and Jordan joined today in a new Arab federation rivaling and challenging the recently proclaimed United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria. The merger cast doubt on Iraq's future participation in the American-supported Baghdad Pact. King Faisal II of Iraq and King Hussein of Jordan, 22-year-old second cousins of the Hashemite dynasty, proclaimed the federation just after sunrise on this Moslem Sabbath.

The two kings agreed to merge their armies, economies, finances and foreign affairs. The monarchs will retain their separate thrones and their local governments, but Faisal was named chief of state of the new federation. As the Egyptian-Syrian proclamation of the U.A.R. had done two weeks before, the new federation invited other Arab states to join. There seemed b'Ule likelihood King Saud of Saudi Arabia would bring his big desert kingdom into the new arrangement.

Saud apparently approved the Iraqi-Jor- danian'move, but the impression here was that Saudi Arabia would remain outside both federations. Faisal and Hussein called the new arrangement, "al itfihad Arabi bayin al dawlatayin," Arabic for "the Arab federation between two states." This can be rendered, for brevity, as "an Arab federation." The word "ittihad" is- a loose term meaning something like brotherhood, and has little in com mon with the sort of union pro claimed by Egypt and Syria. Thai was called "wahdah," meaning actual "oneness." The Egyptian-Syrian union proc lamation purported to sink the identities of Syria and Egypt in a single republic of two provinces under a single leader. President Nasser. But Iraq anc Jordan apparently will retain thei identities.

The Syrian Egyptian union brought pressure on other Arab governments for a show of unity by all Arabs in the middle east. By merging, Iraq and Jordan cement a geographical wedge separating Syria and Egypt, 120 miles apart. There was no announcement here on Iraq's plans regarding the Baghdad Pact, in which it is a keystone and the only Arab member. The pact has been a target of violent attack from Arab nationalists, who denounce it as a means fo perpetuating cclonial control in the Arab East. Fire Destroys 5ig Warehouse In Pennsylvania ERIE, Pa.

(ffi A spectacular fire, fed by drums of gasoline and chemicals and punctuated by explosions, destroyed a block-long warehouse last night. Damage was tentatively estimated at be- two and eight million dollars. All available fire equipment was summoned to the fire in the one- story brick and concrete struc- 20 blocks from midtown. Fire fighters were hampered by 14-degree temperatures. The area became a mass of ice.

Two firmen were injured. One was sent reeling by concussion but was not seriously hurt. Another slipped on the ice and was admitted to Erie Veterans Hospital. Deputy Fire Chief John North said, "It was the worst fire es far as property loss is concerned that I have seen in my 31 years on the fire department." North 'said he' estimated damage at "about two million dollars but that is strictly a Millard Irwin, owner of the warehouse, valued the building itself at a million dollars. He said an inventory taken Wednesday showed the contents an assortment of- goods ranging television sets to drums of gasoline and chemicals to be worth seven million dollars.

Irwin said the fire appeared to have started in an area with a considerable amount of electrical wiring. LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PICTURE OPTIMISTIC Unemployment figures in this area are not as acute as other parts of the nation, according to Mrs. Faye Boyd, manager of the Texas Employment Commission in Paris. Although no definite figure is available at present, she pointed out that there have been no mass layoffs. "It seems that many one-time Parisians are coming back as a result of the mass layoffs in other industrial areas," she said.

"And this possibly could bring about a part of any upswing in unemployment locally." But, Mrs. Boyd, who worked in Paris during the depression of 1930's said "no alarming situation has come about in the Paris 1 Since this area is basically agricultural, she pointed out that it's strictly normal for the January-March months to produce a lag period in employment for the three-county area of Delta, Lamar and Red River served out of the Paris office. "But we already note that such unemployment is tapering off through the early part of February," she said. Key Dem Chiefs Talk of Tax Cut Issue Not Expected In Congress Soon WASHINGTON Democratic leaders in Congress were talking today in terms of a 5 to 10 billion dollar tax cut if the business recession makes tax reduction necessary. But barring a snowballing decline in the economy, there was no solid conviction on Capitol Hill that Congress will consider tax cuts before early summer and then only as a last resort to reverse the business slide.

Early estimates of a possible reduction of two or three billion dollars have been pushed aside as insufficient to stem a major economic dip. Nothing less than a 5 to 10 billion dollar cut would generate enough new buying power to put the economy back on the track, the leaders estimate. This reportedly was the thinking behind a statement by House Speaker Rayburn of Texas, who said House Democrats are going to start a review "pretty soon" to see where a tax cut might do the most there is one." Rayburn, as well as other House tax leaders, said a lax cut might also depend on whether the budget can stand it. President Eisenhower already has forecast a deficit for the year ending this June 30, and many Democrats are questioning the basis of his esti- mate that a surplus will appear in the following year. If definite indications of recovery do not become apparent by May, it was believed Congress may have no choice but to enact a tax cut before it goes home.

Before June, however, Congress annot be expected to act "with ny one House member said. House tax writers appear to be 'Specially concerned over the nowballing effect of the business Jump on the nation's psychology. fear it will create a bad 'sychological effect apart from he true state of the economy. LATE NEWS WASHINGTON confession in which Sgt. Roy A.

Rhodes said he agreed to cooperate with Russians in the United States because "I was up to my neck in it" was introduced today at his court- martial trial on charges of espionage conspiracy. TUNIS (ff) President Hablb Bourguiba increased his diplomatic pressure on France today, and put a police blockade around three French consulates. WASHINGTON (A 1 Navy today awarded contracts for three atomic powered submarines to fire Polaris guided missiles. Two will be built by Electric Boat Division at Groton, and a third at the Mare Island, Naval Shipyard. EXPERTS SAY One More Motor Could Send Jupiter to Moon PASADENA, Calif, one more rocket motor on the Jupiler- missile that launched the American satellite and you could reach the moon.

Scientisls who designed Explor er I disclosed this yesterday at a news conference called to report on the satellite's progress through the heavens. California Institute of Technology's jet propulsion laboratory has formally asked Defense Department permsision to try lo circle the moon with some future satellite. There is no thought at the moment, scientists said, of trying Spaceman Shows Signs of Fatigue SAN ANTONIO Force officials said loday that Donald Farrell, on the downhill side of a mythical 7-day trip to the moon, had shown his first signs of real fatigue in the experimental space cabin here. "However, this morning after a real good sleep he sounded much more alert and we are very optimistic he will complete the full seven days," said Lt. Col.

George Steinkamp, chief of space medi cine at Randolph Air Force Base. "It was during last night's work problems that we saw for the first time indications of real fatigue. He skipped a couple and slowed down in reaction on others." Farrell entered the experimental space cabin last Sunday. Farrell passes the 120-hour mark in the compact cabinet day. He'll emerge from the "trip," a simulated space voyage in nearly every way Sunday al 9:35 inches.

Total rainfall to a.m., exactly seven days after he 7 In( the chamber. Lt. Col. George Sleinkamp, head of the department on space medicine, School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Air Force Base, said he believed Farrell would sain Ihis with Explorer II, Ihe second U.S. satellite now being rushed to completion at the jet lab.

To reach the moon, a fifth rocket stage would be added to the four stages of the Jupiter-C. This stage, however, would he added lo the nose of the missile, not the base. Dr. Henry Richtcr and other scientists at the news conference said Explorer I is performing as they expected il would. Radioed information indicates that a human could live in a salellite.

"Room temperature" is bcin; maintained inside the satellite and measuring devices indicate no great peril from cosmic rays or small meteorites in space. A radio which Explorer I does not have, is being installed in Explorer If at the jcl lab. "By means of Ihis receiver we can tell Explorer II when lo broadcast to us," Richlcr said "A tape recorder in the satellite will save up information gatherec while the salellite is farthcsl away from aarlh and send it to us, on command, when the satellite if nearest the earth." Because the radio will not be transmitting all the time, its batteries will last longer. WEATHER FBI Probes FCC Payment WASHINGTON Rep. Harris given to Mack by Thurman A (D-Ark) today promised full cooperation with an FBI probe of allegations that Communications Commissioner Richard A.

Mack received "thousands of dollars" from an attorney a Miami television case. Harris said that the investigating subcommittee he heads will call Mack to testify "very soon" on the charges made by the group's ousted counsel Bernard Schwartz. Testifying under oath. Schwartz said Mack has acknowledged accepting several thousand dollars from a lawyer Schwartz said was active in gelling a lelevision license for a firm rated by an FCC examiner as the least qualified of four applicants. He said Mack described the money as loans.

Mack could not be reached for comment. A few hours after the hearing, Ally. Gen. Rogers ordered the FBI to make a "complete inves- ligalion." Schwartz has agreed to return Monday for further questioning on information he says he has about other FCC commissioners and Sherman Adams, Presidenl Eisenhower's top aide. Schwartz was fired by the sub- commitlee Monday night in a dispute over the conduct of its probe of the regulatory agencies.

Schwartz produced from subcommittee file-s cancelled checks totaling $2,650 which he said were EAST anc! early tonight extreme north tonight Demo Banquet Tickets on Sale Tickets were on sale Friday in Paris for the March 18 banquet in Ml. Pleasant honoring Governor Price Daniel, Stale Senator A. M. Aikin and other stale and local elected officials. Joe Hammack, county Democratic Party executive committee chairman, released tickets with several persons.

The price is $2 per person. Hammack emphasized it was not a fund raising event. of the banquet see the event, as an opportunity for al First Senatorial District Democrats to get, tobelher. Kd Levee, of Texarkana and Mrs. Rayburn Bell of Paris Rain somc asf i members of the stale Democralic weight during journey.

the make-believe central portions. and cold. i LOCAL. Thursday 'omperatures i at Cox Field: High. -42; 12.

here this P.1 date i tern- pcrature Friday morning. 32 locally heavy snow warnings extreme west portion. Snow west portion today with locally Colder to- Execulive Commillee, will serve sauirdayTair as co-chairmen of Ihe banquet along with county chairmen. Gov. Daniel and Sen.

Aikin are scheduled for speeches al the ban ouet. in the Ml. Pleasant Nations Guard Armory. Heading up ticket sales in La Whiteside of Miami after Mack became an FCC commissioner. The former counsel said Mack claimed the checks represented loans and lhal the commissioner said a portion of the loans had been forgiven and some repaid in cash.

The checks, Schwartz said, were subpoenaed from Whifeside, who he said had a reputalion in Florida as a "fixer." Schwartz said Whiteside represented Public Service Television, which won the grant for Miami's TV Channel 10 in a holly conlesled case. Public Service is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nalional Airlines. Boy on Ledge Is Found Dead SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. IJV- An expert mountain climber final ly got down to a ledge where a boy lay by a waterfall, gro tesquely twisled and still. "Negative," the climber yellec to the men 300 feet above.

They knew then that the crum bly cliff had defeated them. Young Donald Burns was dead. A day earlier, the 13-ycar-olc eighth-grader from nearby Collon was walking along the top of the cliff on lowering Mt. San Gorgonio. He and a schoolmate, par of a hiking parly, had climbec from a snowy canyon lo look from Ihe, lop of a falls that tumbles 70C feel down in two steps.

Donald slipped on a path, wen over Ihe side. He landed on a small ledge about 100 feet down but the water pushed him off am he fell another 200 feel to Ih ledge lhal forms a slop in th middle of the waterfall. Teen Schoolgirl Found Murdered Dallas Fires )ne Missing DALLAS persons were dead, one was missing, and an- jther under arrest today after a eries of three blazes brought the ire death toll here to 15 since an. 1. Fire officials estimated the loss the fires, which occurred here ast night and early today, at well over Firemen were successful in keeping one of the fires from spreading to nearby tanks of and naphtha.

The dead, killed in the smallest of the fires, were tentatively iden- ified as Edna Colman and Howard Johnson, both Negroes. They were killed in the fire that destroyed a small dwelling where he property loss was estimated at only $500. Soon after the bodies of the pair were found, homicide officers arrested a 39-year-old man. A neighbor of the southeast Dallas victims told of seeing somebody jump over a fence in the back of the blazing house. An autopsy was ordered on the victims.

The missing person was a night watchman who could not be found alter a roaring fire broke out at the Dallas Waste Mills, where a two-story frame building was destroyed. Officers could not immediately identify the nighlwatch- man or say whether he had been killed. The Waste Mills fire gave firemen the most trouble. Flames leaped more than 100 feel in the air and for a lime threatened to spread lo nearby businesses in the south Dallas area. Firemen kepi the flames away from nearby tanks of gasoline and naphtha.

II was the third fire since sundown occurring shortly afler I a.m. Earlier lasl nighl, a fire tha 1 broke out in the storeroom of a carpet firm in the Casa View shopping center in northeast Dal Is, caused $75,000 damage before firemen could control it. Firemen, who made the dam age estimate, said the fire spreac through burning attic insulation to tive other shops in the one-story shopping village before they coulc slop it. Farm Ranch Field Day Due To Draw Crowd A program aimed at every farmer in Lamar County promises to draw a record Field Day audience February 21. Farm Ranch lub officers predicted Friday.

The morning program will fea- ure information on grain sor- hum production, steer feeding on iqme grown grains, sheep on Lamar County farms and sesame production. Emphasis will be no ocal conditions. Three of the speakers are close- connected with farm and ranch operations in Northeast Texas. Norman Moser of Moser Bros. Ranch in Bowie County will report on steer feeding with horne jrown grains.

Moser has carried on a successful steer' feeding operation for several years. Horace Boyle will talk on sheep management. Boyle operates a sheep ranch near Roxton and has feeder lamb and ewe and lamb operations. Robert Parker, executive vice- president of Texas Sesame Growers, will discuss sesame production, harvesting and marketing. Parker has been with Texas Sesame since the early period of its organization when sesame was grown for the first time.

Ben Spears, Extension Agronomist at Texas College, will talk on grain sorghum production, storage and marketing. Spears is well acquainted with local conditions in grain sorghums. The program opens at 9 m. A barbecue lunch will climax the morning program at Paris Junior College auditorium. Stripper Gets 15-Year Term DALLAS stripteaser Candy Barr faced 15 years in prison today on a narcotics charge.

A jury here convicted the exotic dancer and assessed the penalty yesterday after deliberating two hours and 45 minutes. The dancer, charged and tried under her true name, Mrs, Juanita Dale Phillips, showed little emotion at the verdict. "It was an unfair verdict," the shapely Candy said to reporters, "but my spirit is not broken." Attorneys said quickly they would appeal. Courtroom fans said the defense lawyers appeared more shocked than the dancer at the penalty. The nightclub entertainer Iried unsuccessfully to make a last- minute appeal in her own behalf.

She had not previously taken the witness stand. But as attorneys ended their arguments, she walked before the jury which included one woman and said: "I've made a few notes here and 1 want to tell you I didn't intend to violate any law." NEW YORK A 16-year-ol schoolgirl was found murdcrec yesterday in the basement of he Washington Heights home. Her body was burned, she had been bludgeoned, and fragments of Venetian blind cord clung to her throat and wrists. The victim was brunette Lillian Mojica. Her body, face down and arms extended, was found under a mattress which showed no signs of burns.

Police said only laboratory tests could determine whether the sirl died of burns, strangulation or from a blow on the head. Luke Abbelf Dies Thursday Luke C. Abbctl, 1519 Clarksville retired district sales representative of the Gulf Oil Corporation here, died about 4 p. m. Thursday in a Paris hospital, where he had been a patien' a few days.

He had been in failing hcallh recently, and had relired January 1. Funeral services at Fry-Gibbs chapel will be conducted Saturday at 2:30 p. m. by the Rev. Seth Parker of Central Presbyterian Church.

Interment be made in Evergreen Cemetery. Born at Georgetown. December 13, in02. Luke Cox Abbett was a son of Hie late William G. and Linda iPullianrO Abbelt.

He married Miss Frances Finnell in Louisville, in July, and she survives, besides these children: Mrs. Frank E. Fuller. VV'nco: Luke C. Abbett, LUKE C.

ABBETT in World War going overseas with Ihe Ninth Infantry, Second Division, and remaining nine months after the Armistice, with the American occupation forces. He had followed other business pursuits briefly before becoming White Oak, and Spencer L. an employe of Gulf Oil in 1919. Abbett, Paris, and five grand WCbl (J'JIU'Ml I'HJHV MILrtllv snow accumulating to three to four mar Cotmly will be County Judge xtreme Rain and scat- Braswell. County Attorney mndorstnrms southeast pw "Isewhere rain changing to I Lflighton Cornell.

Millard IgO, inches extreme tered thunri El snow. east port 1 i District Clerk Leslie Kchols, David where. Colder tonight and 1,1 west Rohinson. Don McLaugnlin, Tony portion today. Saturday rlnuriv colder with some turday rlnudv and j-.

anr snow portion. nfp ann You can buy maple accessories at factory cost when you belong to the Maple Club at Cox's. No charge, no dues, no obligation lo belong. Join today. 1700 Clarksville.

SU4-4045. children. Graduate of Georgetown School and of Georgetown College. Mr. Abbett attended the University of Kentucky where he was a member of Kappa Alpha frater- He represented this corporation in Sherman and San be- High fore transfer here in 1934.

He was active in various capacities in Central Presbyter i at Church here and in Ihe Masonic and various civic and so- nify. He served two and a half cial during his years in years in the army as a lieutenant Paris..