El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 1

ID) HO eraM EDITION The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL LXXIX NO 58 EL PASO TEXAS MONDAY MARCH 9 1959 zmrassD bt cARim Mo PIS WBXK Cash Papent Plan Hastens Port Road Court to Order Earlier Opening Of Project Bids fl 7 Was Treated Well Says Kidnaped 1 Child Returns to Mother -ROTARIANS GATHER Officials and delegates from the Southwest attended a district Rotary conference today at Del Camino From left: Dr Willard Schuessler Chamber of Commerce president Dr Stu Adler of Albuquerque nominee for district governor Edward -Long lieutenant governor of Missouri: L'A Hendrix of Alamogordo district governor Harvey Meston president of East El Paso Rotary host club and Tom Coats of Alpine presidentelect of the Alpine club Rotary Club Leader Strong For Symington for President District Clubmen Meet In £1 Paso Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri is in the forefront for Democratic nomination for President Lieutenant Governor Edward Long of Missouri said in El Paso today am strong for Symington Mr Long said I also am an admirer of Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas a strong contender and of Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas Johnson and Sam will be very influential in naming the Democratic nominee Senator Kennedy and others are contenders but I believe die choice will be Senator Symington A Better Place to Live lieutenant Governor Long a friend of Former President Harry Truman spoke today at the 36th conference of Southwestern District 5S2 of Rotary International at Del Camino The conference opened yesterday with some 200 delegates present and ends tomorrow Mr comments on politics were made outside the Rotary meeting in reply to questions In a talk at die conference he did not mention politics but stressed Rotary aims and ideals He represented the Rotary International president Cliff Randall through their activities make their communities better places to live Mr Long said make the world a better place for all who believe in friendship and die fellowship of man and fellowship are a dynamic force that binds men together in a quest for permanent and lasting peace It creates confidence understanding and trust Main Speaker Mr home town is Bowling Green Mo where he has been a Rotarian of long standing He is tobe main speaker at a Rotary banquet at 6 today at Del Camino Robert Jackson Jr a past president at Albuquerque addressed the conference this morning on Your Community as individuals or as members always should be cogni-? (Continued an Page 2 CoL 1) Official Here to Discuss New Mental Hospital First step in contemplated plans of the State Hospital Board 'to decentralize services may be worked out in connection with the planned El Faso General Hospital improvements Dr Ruilman in charge of all special services and schools for the Hospital Board told County Judge Woodrow Bean his visit here today is to discuss the possibility of using the- new hospital facilities phis the already established Victor Gilbert Mental Annex as the first step in the plan which has long been under consideration by state health authorities Additional Funds Under the plan the State will furnish additional funds to established charity hospitals and perhaps to other hospitals for preliminary treatment of mental patients and for follow-up out-patient treatment According to the best information available it is the consensus into effect This will save money fra foe State however since the per-patient cost in local institutions will be much lower than in state-operated hospitals Dr Ruilman was to confer with five leading psychiatrists of El Paso late today and ask for their opinion before taking further action Judge Bean welcomed foe plan as both a saving to foe cost of operating the El Paso General Hospital mental ward aa well as providing better service to patients Commissioners Heavily Armed Army Forces Revolt Bombers Sent Out By Government Rebels Start March Bf United Preea International BEIRUT Lebanon March The north Iraq revolt exploded into civil war today A government radio broadcast from Baghdad said Iraq air force planes bombed the rebel capital at Mosul A rebel broadcast from Mosul claimed an insurgent victory over government ground forces and said that revolutionary troops were marching on Baghdad No Details No details were available on either foe bombing or the reported ground battle Outsiders were totally dependant on rival radio broadcasts and sparse diplomatic dispatches But these made it appear that foe uprising in rich northeastern oilfield area led by Arab nationalist sympathizer CoL Abdel Wahab Shawaf against the regime of Leftist Premier Abdel Karim Kassem was headed for a bloody showdown The Baghdad Radio said loyalist fighter-bombers attacked Mosul at midday But a broadcast from Shawaf a rebels declared that bombardment will only make us stand firmer with hte Marching on Baghdad The rebels also announced over an insurgent said to be in Mosul that their troops were marching on Baghdad Moscow Radio said foe United States may be behind foe Iraqi revolt in an attempt to bolster the Baghdad Pact nations bordering Iraq British to Evacuate It broke out coon after foe signing of the bilateral mutual defense treaty with Iran and Moscow Radio said in a broadcast beamed toward Southeast Asia Coukl it be Moscow Radio asked that the revolt was attempt of foe plotters and their protectors to use these agreements as a pretext for their foreign interference in internal The bilateral agreements pledging in broad terms backing against aggression were signed last Thursday in Ankira with Turkey Iran and Pakistan In London foe government said plana in a state of to remove about 850 Britons fivkig in Northern Iraq The rebels appeared to be gaining ground in the north foe oil-(Continued on Page 2 CoL 3) Abdel Karim Kassem Leftist Premier Khrushchev Backs Down On Berlin Sees 'No Objection1 To Having West Troops In City Bp United Prree International BERLIN March 9 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today Russia has no objections to the Western powers perhaps some neutral maintaining a minimum of troops in West Berlin The Soviet premier made this major concession today in a speech to mass Communist rally in East Berlin No Great Threat He said that West Berlin would be guaranteed complete independence if the West accepts proposal that it should be transformed into a free city is no threat to the freedom or independence of Berlin if the Western powers accept our proposals Khrushchev said have proposed that the big states should guarantee it also have no objections to the United Nations joining in this guarantee We also would agree that the United States Britain France or neutral states should maintain minimum of troops in West Sees No War It was foe first time Khrushchev had indicated the West might keep troops in Berlin In the past be had adamantly insisted Western Allied-garrison- must leave Berlin after conclusion of a German peace treaty Earlier Khrushchev predicted the Western Allies soon will lose their rights in Berlin and predicted communism will defeat capitalism war without Khrushchev made the confident predictions during a brief courtesy visit to East Communist-run city hail where he scribbled the guest book: express the elief that in no distant time all (Continued on Page 2 CoL 2) 18 Absentee Votes Cast In Demo Primary A total of 18 absentee ballots lave been cast for the City Democratic primary election City Clerk Joe Herrera announced at noon today Absentee voting for the primary election ends tomorrow Twelve of the votes were tabu-ated on a voting machine in the lobby of City Hall and six of the votes were by mail Four other written requests fra absentee bal-ots have been received Election officers assigned to foe 56 precincts have been Instructed to attend class of instruction in election procedure beginning at 7:30 Wednesday the County record room the City-County Building One judge and one to force clerks will be on duty at each voting place during the primary Saturday Polls will open at 7 a and close at 7 pm The future of primary elections in El Paso will be decided at foe City general election April 14 Robert Haynsworth chairman of the City Democratic Executive Committee favors abolition of the primary The City Council approved a proposal- to place the issue on the general election ballot DANA and her mother Mrs Nofa Henderson together again in Paso Dana 12 Took Circle Tour Through Mexico Claims El Pasoan Got Her Drunk In Las Vegas Dana Henderson 12 back borne In El Paso today told of her journey over two weeks with the man accused of kidnaping her He Is Gerald Crosby 29 a job shop printer Dana Is the daughter of Mrs Nola Henderson manager of the Dare apartments at 717- She said it was a housekeeping apartment told me to call Min Daddy and I did I did most of the cooking and looked after foe apartment It had two bedrooms I slept by myself part of foe time and with Jimmy part of foe time Gerald told us never to leave the apartment But when he would go off to work at the Optic (foe Las Vegas newspaper where Crosby got a job as a printer) we would sneak out and go places I never (Continued on Page 1 CoL 4) Andrews County Gets New Well Special to Tha JXarald-Po et HOUSTON March Discovery of a new oil field in the north Wemac area in Andrews County two and one-half miles southeast of Andrews was announced today by tiie Continental Oil Co On a drills tern test foe discovery well the Kemper No 1 flowed at tiie rate- of 61 barrels of Ml per hour at the interval of 9160 to 9147 feet Gas-oil ratio was 106 to 1 and flowing pressure ranged from 1220 to 2400 pounds Conoco has a Mod: of 1420 net acres in the area Nearest production is weH in the Bakke pod one and one-half miles southwest of the disoovery well Postal Receipts Up 33 Per Cent Postal receipts for foe four-week period ending March 6 were up 33 per cent over the same period last year Postmaster Charles Boyce said Receipts were $271545 compared $203942 for foe same period last an increase of $67603 Adjusting the figures to allow foe rate increase the normal ncrease would be 1318 per cent figured at 85 per cent of the gross adjusted receipts: $230814 One of foe biggest reasons for increase was a mail volume of 649 per cent Mr Boyce Commissioners Court was to be informed today by Auditor A Mackay they can get a three weeks earlier start on the Cordova Island port of entry construction by using funds on hand instead of time warrants The Court was expected late today to order advertising for bids to be opened two weeks hence instead of April 13 County Judge Woodrow Bean has estimated costs of construction of the three and six lane sections of foe new border crossing highway linking Hammett street with the boundary line at approximately $45000 on foe basis of figures furnished by Consulting Engineer Glenn English Okay Warrant Issue At a meeting a week ago Commissioners voted approval of $60000 time warrant issue to pay for the construction Warrants not needed were to be canceled when the time warrants were converted into bonds at a probable interest rate of per cent Date set for letting foe contract was April 13 But Auditor Mackay who actually took over the post from retiring Ed Haight less than a month ago has already found about $150000 in errors in the budget for 1959 which was prepared last September He recently socked $110000 of this away in the bank at 54 per cent interest as funds on a call money basis is a great deal of difference between no interest and 354 per cent interest even on such sum as said Auditor Mackay Funds Available have the funds to build foe border road and we have to pay any interest or brokerage fee fra marketing time warrants or bonds Judge Bean said he is pleased at foe manner at which the new auditor appointed by foe four District Judges' is tackling the problems of saving County taxpayers money Mr Mackay a long-time auditor and accountant for the Federal Government was a strong campaign supporter of Judge Bean Valley Woman Shot to Death A 24-year-old Lower Valley woman Mrs Guadalupe Rivera was shot and killed shortly before noon today Sheriff Bob Bailey said her husband 29-year-old Raymundo Rivera Jr a farm worker was arrested by Deputy Don Whitley The shooting took jdace on a farm six miles east of Ysleta on North Loop drive Bailey said Mrs Rivera was shot three times in the head with a 22-caliber rifle She was also stabbed in the chest The shooting took place in a tenant farm home occupied by the Riveras on the farm of Thurman Do rough Five-Day Weather DISTRICT 13 Temperatures two to four degrees below normal minimum of 26 to 36 north 36 to 51 south maximum 55 to 73 Only minor daily changes Precipitation light or none DISTRICT 12 Temperatures two to four degrees below normal minimum of 49 to 59 extreme south Texas and near coast 39 to 49 elsewhere maximum 64 to 78 Mostly minor daily changes Precipitation light to moderate in widely scattered showers DISTRICT 28 Temperatures near or slightly below normal minimum of 19 to 32 north 30s In south maximum 56s north 60s south SmaH but frequent daily changes Generally fair with little or no precipitation DISTRICTS 31 AND No precipitation Temperatures near normal El Paso Sunshine The sun shone today for the 130th consecutive day It has shone every day this year 68 days of psychiatrists that complete or partial cures for most mental patients can be made in from two to six week period in small local institutions Then follow-up treatment can be on an out-patient basis Lack of Funds Under present practice patients are held in the local mental wards for transfer to large state mental hospitals where they are in the Jam as far as individual treatment is concerned primarily because of lack of funds to retain enough competent psychiatrists to handle them efficiently If the plan is placed in effect in El Paso County then local psychiatrists can devote additional time on a contract basis and patients cured or temporarily relieved quickly for the most part A few incurables will have to be sent on to the state hospitals but tiie remainder will return to their homes and receive further treatment as out-patients Because most counties are unable to provide adequate facilities the State will have to contribute both to construction and operation of mental wards if the plan goes North St Vrain street She disappeared on Feb 21 with Crosby and hit son Jimmy 9 Crosby lived in the Dare apartments Planned Short Trip did most of foe cooking and Dana said was treated well except that he got me drunk in Las Vegas' know we were going to be away long when we left home went to Juarez early that morning but stay there long We went oa down into Mexico on road south of the river I think we went to the town (Oji-naga) just across from Presidio We came back through Van Horn and on through El Paso We stay here long She said she told Crosby she wanted to go home but that he told her she could not do that semed scared'- Dana said But I scared I was not afraid at any Rented Apartment Dana said Crosby drove north from El Paso skirting Las Cruces and going up Highway 85 through Socorro Albuquerque Santa Fe and on to Las Vegas New Mexico slept in foe car somewhere along foe road that Dana said foe next day we readied Las Vegas and rented an apartment at the Meadow Courts Get Hospital Plan A Hospital District bond issue proposal of $35 million to be used as the share of a $5 million new El Paso General Hospital on foe site now in use was to be submitted to Commissioners Court late today It is planned to hold the brad election on April 14 is our hope that the Department of Health Education and Welfare recognizing the emergency facing El Paso County and West Texas in the lack of sufficient hospital facilities will contribute generously through Hill-Burton Funds to our project said County Judge Woodrow Bean we have discovered that foe largest sum ever appropriated from Hill-Burton Funds for Texas was $15 million and fra that reason we will ask foe voters to approve a $35 million bond issue in the event the money is needed $15 million appropriation of Federal funds was for use in Houston where the county had on (Continued an Page 2 CoL 1) used for carrying ore and stone The sides of the car suddenly opened throwing the three men out of the car Texas Ranger Jim Nance stopped foe train at Sierra Blanca and arrested foe men remaining in the car pending an investigation of fold Death Car Driver Gets $500 Fine Edwardo Carreon salesman residing at 6336 Ogage road today entered a plea of guilty to a driving while intoxicated case in County Court-at-Law and was fined 9500 Carrera had been scheduled to appear in District Judge William XL court today to answer to a charge of murder while 'riving while intoxicated in the death Dec 15 1957 of Felipe Alderete 72 struck by a car while crossing Hawkins way near Beacon street Despite the fact that three police officers were willing to testify that the body of Alderete was knocked 90 feet from where he was struck and that Carrera was drunk had a strong odor of alcohol about him swayed when he walked had bloodshot eyes and his speech was shined Assistant District Attorney Larry Welch said the prosecution did not have sufficient evidence to try Carrera on the murder while driving while intoxicated charge right to continue to drive as a commercial operator of a motor vehicle was restored to Mm two days after the death of Alderete in letter written by the District office The moon rockets will probably hit the taxpayers harder than tha moon Burglars Rob Office Of Highway Police Burglars entered the Texas Department of Public Safety offices at 823 Hawkins way early today and escaped with $145 In in a nna envelope It was the second time In three months the offices have been burglarized On Dec 10 thieves also looted the 3 Dumped From Train One Traveler Killed Three men were dumped out of a speeding Texas and Pacific freight train near the Fabens depot early today killing one wum and seriously Injuring the other two Walter Mitchell 70 of Gainesville was killed Injured were his son Troyp 47 and 17- Inside Your Herald-Post EL Weather Bureau Forecast Fair (Details on Page 19) Page Amusements it Ann Carroll 11 Comics 27 Crossword Puzzle 27 Deaths 7 Dr Conner 18 Editorials 18 Foreign Scene Inez Robb 17 Markets 28 Pegier 18 People Radio and TV Programs 8 Side-Bar Remarks is Sports 2421 News -12-13-14 building Patrolmen Luis Barba and Lin-dell Cowan discovered foe burglary on a routine patrol when they saw a bathroom window open on the south side of the building The burglars smashed a steel desk with a tool to get the manila folder containing the money Officials said usually no money la kept la tha building overnight Nothing else was damaged Police said the burglars put papers and other items in order before leaving They entered and left through the open window State and City police are investigating Officers said the same methods of entering the building were used on Dec 10 No arrests were made following that burglary said to year or The foe rise year-old Roy Clark of Fort Worth Justice of the Peace David White of Clint acting as coroner said Walter Mitchell died instantly when his head Mt a switch at foe side of foe track The force men along with five others were riding foe eastbound freight in aa empty gondola ear: I.