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Daily Hera 16 PAGES TODAY Biloxi Local News Coant Entertainments Gulfport Local Newt -Local National porta Pg 19 Herald Classifiads Pg 14 Associated Press (A and NEA Features Herald Building Biloxi Mississippi Coast Wednesday Afternoon January 1 1958 Herald Building Gulfport Volume Number 76 Wintry Blast To Drop Mercury To Freezing Mark Agreement Will Solve Problems Leader Declares1 Girl Is First Gulfport Baby The New Year was only two hours and 38 minutes old when Mr Stork paused in his circling of Memorial Hospital Gulfport and delivered his first 1958 bundle a little Miss weighing in at even pounds 13 ounces The baby named Patricia Nell is the sixth child of Mr and Sirs Palmer Wil liams 421 Pass Road She is joining a family group which includes four sisters and one brother Sir Stork's number one assistant to usher in (he first baby of the year was Dr Stuart Jr Dallas School Board Now In Funds Dilemma Reading Of 32 Expected Along Mississippi Coast By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A wintry blast of Arctic weather carrying shivering temperatures chilled Mississippi Wednesday as the New Year arrived after a wet 1957 1 The Weather Bureau explained the drop in temperatures 29 in north Mississippi and 44 along the coast as a result! of a northland cold front passing! through on its way to warmer climes FREEZING PREDICTED Temperatures were expected to drop even lower Wednesday night! from 20 in north Mississippi to! 32 along the coast before a' warming up trend sets in Friday Hard freeze was forecast throughout the state north of the usually balmy Gulf coast where only freezing temperatures were predicted Originating in the northwest the front has passed through Mississippi and was in Alabama and northwest Florida Wednesday COLD UNTIL FRIDAY Because the cold front is clear-the skies of rain-bearing i MOSCOW Nikita Khrushchev raised his glass in a toast to President Eisenhower and told diplomats at a Kremlin New reception early today an agreement between the United States and Russia would solve moit of the problems The Soviet Communist party leader spoke after he and Premier Nikolai Bulganin and President Klementi Voroshilov had spread year-end greetings and wishes for lasting peace to state and government chiefs around the world Calling Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson by name Khrushchev told the huge banquet crowd he wished to drink to the health of Eisenhower Dr Welch Outstanding Citizen Dr Welch New Eve received the cup awarded by Biloxi Lions Club each year to the most outstanding citizen Cup chairman the Rev A DeMiller makes award (Photo by Dennis) Outstanding Veteran 1957 DeLamarre right chairman of the selection committee presents the Lyman Bradford Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars plaque to Mayor Laz Quave as outstanding veteran of 1957 Mayor Quave was recognized for his contributions to and for veterans during the year both as mayor and as a private citizen and a veteran (Photo by Lockett) DALLAS UR The Dallas School Board wants the federal courts toing Dr Welch Recipient 1957 Honors Move Toward Cf ifa I II tj JIdIC solve a dilemma posed by a flict between a federal integration order and a state anti-integration law Power Company Favored In Co-Op Service Case JACKSON Miss Mississippi's Public Service Commission has given the largest private utility authority to serve a The Lyman Bradford Post of! new industry near Jackson Veterans of Foreign plaque! cause a rural cooperative doesnt to the outstanding veteran of 1957 have the facilities to serve it Parrish Baby Is First Biloxian partly cloudy The absence of rain was a district which desegregates with- i marked change from the regular NEW YORK UR President Ei-out approval in a local option deluges that plagued farmers andjsenhower will be urged to make election is subject to loss ot part ouMoorsmen for the last five fundamental changes in the or-of its state school fines1 months iganization and pilosophy of the and loss of accreditation I Temperatures around the state' Defense Department the New! The board filed suit in Federal 'and the rain that preceded the York Times said today Court asking for' a judgment ad-: cold front included: Tupelo 29 devising the board of its and grees and 19 inches of rain The civil suit named! Greenville 29 and 27 inches State Commissioner of Education 'Greenwood 30 and 27 inches Dr Edgar State Comptrol-jJackson 31 and 12 inches Meier Robert Calvert and 34 and 17 inches McComb In Hinted The recommendation the Times said in a Washington dispatch is contained in the first of a series of Rockefeller reports to be published Monday The Times story continued: awarded to Laz Quave the Weather Bureau fore- cast fair and sunny but cold I days until Friday which will be 36 and 47 inches and Biloxi 44 and 04 inches Daydreams In Flowers" Theme Of Rose Parade PASADENA Calif UR Hun- Elton Co plant business yester- byiday Powi the area under the day although Capital Electric Power Assn of Clinton claimed hope you other chiefs of mis- sions will not misunderstand diplomats quoted him as saying we are realistic If the Soviet' Union and the United States can get together and can reach agree-' ment most of the world's problems would be PLUG FOR MEETING toast appeared to be another plug for the current! Soviet campaign for two-party ne--gotiatiens at a high level between Washington and Moscow At the recent NATO summit meeting: some members of the alliance also said they favored such talks The United States has shown no eagerness to be drawn into such negotiations which might present innumberable opportunities to create misunderstandings and splits between toe United States and its closest allies Ambassador and Mrs Thompson went to table as toe toast was completed and drank with Khrushchev Bulganin and Voroshilov SPUTNIKS ON DISPLAY A highlight of toe banquet was a lighted bit of simulated sky across which two tiny moons symbols of Soviet Sputniks traveled The reports have been in preparation for 15 months They attempt to foresee the major secu-i rity economic political and cial problems facing the United later a hentt and States in the next 15 years collector-the light of new Soviet challenges HELPED VETERANS was Mayor of Biloxi Tuesday night The presentation was made at of the Biloxi Community House by DeLamarre chairman of! the selection committee Now in his second term as mayor the 47-year-old Quave formerly served his city as chief Treasurer Jesse James Judge William Atwell dismissed the suit Dec 9 He said the Legislature had not authorized the filing of the action and state courts could decide it The school board filed notice of appeal of this ruling yesterday The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans last Friday overruled Atwell ta a related case in schools to integrate at midterm The appeals court ordered a new hearing in this case and the taking of evidence School Board Atty Andrew Thuss said the 'district still is obligated to integrate all deliberate and the dilemma posed by the conflict still remains n7u which he directed Dlas dreds of thousands converge strategy and was greatly in-j today for the 69th annual Tourna fluenced by Gen Lucius Clay The 79-year-old dean of Biloxi physicians in his 52nd year of medical practice was named the outstanding citizen for 1957 Tuesday night at the Lions Club New Eve ball He is Dr Welch 28S0 Beach a native of Bethel Community near Collins Miss Dr Welch has been active in church and civic work in Biloxi since he moved here in 1915 He has served as president of the Chamber of Commerce the Lions Club the board of stewards of First Methodist Church the board of trustees of Seashore Campgrounds the Harrison County Medical Society and was commander of the Sons of the Confederacy The Rev A DeMiller cup committee chairman presented the loving cup to Dr Welch at the 27th anniversary ball Continued On Pare Two Foresees Entry Of Alaska To In '58 WASHINGTON (A-Rep Miller (Neb) senior Republican member of the House Interior Committee predicted today that Congress will admit Alaska as the 49th state during toe coming session At toe same time Miller said he felt that statehood would be voted for Hawaii this year The Alaska statehood bill was reported out by both toe Senate and House committees during toe past session but neither house has acted The Hawaii bill came out of toe Senate committee Miller who said he will vote Bil-j clause1 agreed that toe plant was in Capital's area A 1956 public utilities act clause" gives a prior right to areas already served by utilities when toe act went into effect last March Both firms wanted to serve the firm which processes timber for roofing material and other uses PSC Chairman Rubel Phillips whose resignation from the com mission became effective today said the commission found that Capital Electric Power Assn lacked adequate facilities and in a position to construct the facilities to serve toe Elton plant An appeal to toe Hinds County chancery court and probably to the State Supreme Court was almost certain argued that industrial development of certain areas could be assured only if new factories were free to choose their power source The owner and operator of toe Elton plant Stokes told the commission he preferred to be rather generate his own power than accept from toe REA Harvey Hedgepeth Jackson attorney for several REA cooperatives charged that Stokes was denying the commission toe truth by refusing to give toe cooperatives a chance to demonstrate that it could serve the plant their families not only in his of- ficial capacity but also as a citi- zen and a veteran In a number of instances he added the mayor had cooperated with the VFW post Continued On Page Two Explosion Bums Four Men One Critically CANTON Miss UR An explosion shook an equipment plant here yesterday burning four men one critically Herbert Pearson a welder for the Grady Equipment Co received burns over 85 per cent of his body Officials estimated damages to the plant at several thousand dollars The blast apparently resulted from butane gas fumes drifting into the building where they were ignited Also burned were Gene Bellew Others Transferred To Parchman Prison 4 Among the Soviet notes Jer going to world leaders was which expressed the wish for an today to the Mis-end to fear which toe people State Penitentiary at in all lands feel for the Continued On Page Two sheriff Wittmann released the prisoners to the custody of The Mississippi Power Light Co of Jackson was awarded the WOMAN DIES IN TRAIN COLLISION JACKSON MiSs (A Mrs Douglas Bradshaw 28 died last night when a car and ah Illinois Central train collided at a crossing here Her husband who was injured told police he did not see the train The car was dragged about 150 yards after the impact Mrs Bradshaw was found about 45 feet from the track officers said She was dead on arrival at a hospital ment of Roses and perhaps a record traffic jam in Flowers" is this theme of the annual New Day floral procession that attracts hundreds who sleep over night along curbs to hold vantage points The weatherman promised summery warmth reaching about 75 degrees at mid-day for the parade and the Oregon Ohio State Rose Bowl football game These lures and a drivers strike against two Los Angeles-area bus lines curtaling public transportation promised a mam- SACRAMENTO Cahf UR If moth congestion of automobiles Mrs Ardie information is and taxicabs Police appealed to correct she was born three years visitorg heading to the great holi- aD day spectacle to pool rides Lears tay' Police Chief Clarence Mor-jTrxi rixon Choctay ris from his yearly vantage point uer saidiin a sheriffs helicopter had a she was born Jan 1 1839 ground force of 1400 officers to no fnH keep traffic moving They includ- to be 119 and her istncr disd in iaa Bn tnn Berkeley in 1940 at 125 i No matter how old she is-and she is very Mrs Nixon is a remarkable woman She can thread and jump rope Vying for honors in the two-hour parade were 62 floats Twen- needle wlthoutelas'ses bands and 200 horseback riders needle witnout glasses were assigned positions between floats The first child of Mr and Mrs Earl Parrish 437 Ifoxie St Biloxi a daughter born today at 9:13 am has the distinction of being the first birth recorded at Biloxi Hospital in the new year of 1958 The father a native Biloxian who Is employed as a fisherman and who was out on a boat working when the baby was born is about 22 years old His wife the former Miss Betty McArthur Pass Christian is about 19 McClendon suffered a fractured knee cap and lacerations of the chin and shoulder Simpson is being treated for lacerations of toe 1957 Buick as a total loss McClendon is associated with McClendon Building Service Simpson is operator of the Simpson Seafoor Company and Easterling is at socatcd with the A Easterlin 'Construction Company Traveling Sgt Billings and an assistant guard at 6:15 am All were sentenced to penitentiary terms by Judge Leslie Grant during toe Deceuber term of Harrison County Circuit Court BELLEW HEADS LIST Aden Bellew 50-year-old White Plains man sentenced to 15 years for manslaughter in connection with toe last Feb 13 slaying of a (Mississippi City man headed the erection of toe new Pascagoula 'Ugt of prisners bank building has been awarded! Bellew was also convicted in December on counts of aiding jail w-! escape and attempted murder in for admission of both Alaska and connection witl the last June 6 Hawaii as states made his pre- aab of former Montana cow- dictions in a forecast he makes I andH" 5 Dale -M orris 33 and a plot each vear before Con areas beams 7 non i rynrlitfnnin jto assassinate District Attorney Holleman and County Pros-Heatrng Contract goes to Ladner Gaston Hewes Refrigerator Service of Gulfport for $18994 The Holloway Elertri-! cal Service of Pascaeoula ant the 03 the jail escape and attempted electricS contract foglS 5M lmurder counts wepe to conm with the mansluhter work on clearing of toe site on snTD O1" completed and construction of toe Three Gulfport Men Reported To Be Improving Three Gulfport men injured when their car struck a tree in Biloxi last Saturday were still confined to hospitals but repented in improved conditions today Charles McClendon 26 37 53rd St and William Simpson each year before Congress begins action Miller also forecast as he has before that the Democrats will increase their majority in Congress in this election He said Democrats will benefit from two satellites actions of Secretary of Agriculture Benson and the Little Rock racial situation Miller also predicted a summit building will start immediately meeting of toe major world pow-iwith a specification that it be ers since at this level can 'completed within 240 days after firm decisions be reached" starting I Representative Colmer who has served Missississippi with distinc- Let Contracts For Pascagoula Bank Building Alton Thomson president of the Merchants and Marine Bank of Pascagoula and Moss Point announced that -contracts for the Queen of the spectacle a special float with her court of princesses is Gertrude six (Trudy) Wood 17-year-old Pasa' dena City College student to this country and the free world The first report deals with US international security objectives former commander in Germany The report recommends the appointment of a single military Continued On Page Two Patterson To Present State i Tideland View JACKSON Miss Atty Gen Joe Patterson plans to present Mississippi's arguments before the Supreme Court in the five-state tidelands dispute Patterson said yesterday his argument is based on articles under which the state was admitted to the union in 1817 The articles provide that the bounardies shall all islands within six leagues of the The Justice Dept contends the boundaries of Mississippi Louisiana Alabama Texas and Florida extend only three miles or about one league seaward Patterson argues that because the state possesses all Islands within six leagues the Gulf actually begin until the southern borders of Ship Island 12 miles out from Biloxi He also argues Mississippi Sound inside Ship Island and other outer island areas is not actually a part of the Gulf proper He expects the hearing before the high court to be set for early spring ling national security only natural when things go wrong for Americans to look for a fall guy or scapegoat" he commented some of them jwant me to be the goat it's all right with nan FISH SPECIES There are about 25000 different kinds of fish WEATHER NEWS SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI: Today clearing windy and cold high 42-46 tonight fair and cold with freezing temperatures low 28-32 Thursday continued fair and cold high 46-50 winds moderate northerly diminishing tonight and becoming easterly Thursday Friday partly cloudy and warmer low 34-38 high 54-58 Winstead Kenneth Bollinger and Irving Greenwood Parchman Loses Two Inmates Search On PARCHMAN Miss (A Two inmates one serving life for kidnap and armed robbery escaped from toe state penitentiary here last night Officers with bloodhounds hunted them in toe Mississippi Delta country early today The escapees were identified as Albert Espes 39 sentenced to life from Noxubee County in 1942 for armed robbery and kidnap and Harrelle Pitts Roe 28 serving 18 months for escape from Lincoln County where he was sentenced County where he was Sentenced on burglary and grand larceny charges A penitentiary spokesman said toe men not believed armed but are believed rather Smith penitentiary classification officer said hounds picked up the trail on toe east side of the 16000-acre prison farm A trusty fired at them when they escaped he said but they were not hit Roadblocks were set up in surrounding counties 40 ushered blowing of bells crackers 120 YEARS AGO IN THE DAILY HERALD JAN 1 1938 Mayor Louis Brauu named outstanding citizen last night by the Lions Club Wilson Claims Scaring Many People In Arms Race Coast Leaders View 1958 Problems And Solutions DETROIT Former Defense who he said was faced with pub- Secretary Charles Wilson says! lie and Congressional demands for Mississippi: Cloudy south portion this country by being too zealous a tight budget Defense funds this afternoon otherwise clear to jin trying to win the arms race1 later were cut to 36 billion dol-partly cloudy through Thursday could do as much as the Soviet lars I had no quarrel with' the President Wilson said He added Colder this afternoon and tonight Union toward touching off anoto-with hard freeze and lowest 18-28 er war tonight the national Congress since wfll contribute as much toward pete with toe Russians actively by promoting too much of arms buildup in our own defense said: my humble judgment the best thing that could happen to Weather Station located a the Navy Base in Gulfport 24 hours ended at 5 pm High Low Noon Prec Dec 31 67 43 Fog Jan 1 62 40 42 Fog Weather Station located at Biloxi Yacht Club 24 hours ended at 6 pm High Low Noon Precwe think if we attempt to com- that he never had been criticized by Eisenhower or any Cabinet about his defense policies to gcnerBl I blame toe American people foreseeable war as the Rus- as ch as Congress for toe Wilson said cuts Wilson said public -m-irina lwanted to keep down spending and we made its wishes known through selves down necessanuy andjits Congressmen" 400 many peop hei He was asked if he agreed with added decision to trim his Wilson said he does not feel the budget request for this United States is in danger of be ing attacked at this time year I had Wilson said adding America and for that matter to face and mouth brush burns and toe free people of the world would" be a re-dedication by toe American bruises Wallace Easterling 25 4711 BY TOM COOK Daily Herald Staff Writer The dawn of young 1958 will see oninous sputniks still whirling through toe skies over a troubled America beset by un-paralleled international and domestic problems For America or Mississippi or toe promising Gulf Coast what could be the best thing that could happen in 1953? FOUR INTERVIEWED This question was asked by The Daily Herald to four distinguished citizens with long years of service in toe fields of government and private enterprise a Khayat Moss Point vice-presi- Thoughtfully each paused to: dent of toe Pascagoula-Moss Point view toe fog-bound future and eachjBank and an energetic member of offered ideas bom of wisdom and the Jackson County Board of United States Constitution and toe ill of Sweatt Jr GulfDort A call for the Federal govern- meat to relax its control of the money market to allow a further increase in the house building industry because ownership would give added stability to our was issued by Edward Washington St was reported in as enunciated by the United States condition at toe Biloxi Vet-Constitution an the Bill of Administration Hospital Extent of his injuries was not re-guarantee but the hospital said East-- erkng comfortably" last KcpuWIe of the i United States th to live their lives as free immortal documents to the citizens of this! night Three men were injured about nd aftSfsasKfcT fiasK government (went out of control and hit a tree more than the iirst in the neutral ground of hundred years of the life of the Highway 90 near Iberville street young Republic the entrusted ser-jin Biloxi vants of the people scrupulously! Biloxi police who investigated followed the mandates of the the accident described toe car a Asked in an interview at hispid he was aware of the Presi-home in suburban Birmingham if duty to consider the whole he thought the United States could picture in determining budget tv thf DAILY HERALD defeat Russia should war break nteds i'm a team iIX THE DAILY lltKALi out Wilson replied: Wilson said he has received! Wilson said he favors an in- many letters from citizens-since crease to 40 billion dollars in De-j stepping down as defense leader fense Department appropriations' He cited one which accused him! in 1958 nearly toe same sum he of his job of maintain-' yetifs JAN 1 1918 New Year was gloriously in by Biloxians with of whistles ringing and firing of cannon SMALL CRAFT WARNING Coastal winds: Brownsville Tex to Apalachicola Fla: Small craft warnings are displayed from Brownsville Tex to St Marks Fla for northerly winds 20-35 miles per hour diminishing tonight and becoming moderate northeasterly 10-18 miles per hour Thursday RIVER STAGES Pascagoula River at Merrill Miss 129 feet down 6 Forecast slow fall Pearl River at Pearl River La Stage missing Forecast 134 feet Jan 3 founding fathers as set out in these charters of human liberty The result was two-fold America pros- pered and grew into world leader- ship toe envy of the civilized world But more important still oa mas) Supervisors SATELLITE LAUNCHING Gulfport Mayor Meadows Jr sees toe 1958 launching of an American satellite as the best means for this country regain this lost prestige among the peoples of the world" an to regain superiority in toe fields of tech oology and science experience as tentative beacons to light toe way for a groping citizenry Congressman William Colmer of Pascagoula a veteran and re- spected legislator sees the best: thing that could happen to America as re-dedication by toe American people to toe principles of freedom as enunciated by toe i said he asked for last spring sev eral months before resigning from the Cabinet The onetime General Motors Corp president said toe request was whittled to 38 billion dol lars by President Eisenhower I.