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Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 26

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Jti -r- bw SIGHTED ON RADAR DEATHS iotpus fhrteti Caller Charles King Captain Turned Left in Tanker Collision CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS TUESDAY MARCH 31 1959 Trailer Hits DOORWAYS LOWERED FOR QUEEN School Integration Plan Okayed Charles King 43 was found dead at his home 5900 Ocean Drive about 5 pm yesterday He had apparently been dead for several hours Justice of the Peaoe Johnnie Roberts has directed that an autopsy be per-formed to determine the cause of death King came here 10 years ago from Aurora III He owned and operated the King Enterprises specializing in sales of home appliances Survivors include his wife Dorothy a son Frank Charles King a daughter Rosalee his mother Mrs Emma Sperry of Aurora and a sister Mrs Ruth Moody of Aurora Funeral arrangements will be announced by Cage-Mills Funeral Home Gar Killing Alice Teacher was that of Vernon McKay 54 of Harrington Park NJ Two other bodies previously were recovered and the fourth was believed lost at sea The 20000-ton Santa Rosa coming home from a Caribbean cruise rammed the 16500-ton Valchcm in the stem almost cutting the smaller vessel in two There were no injuries to the Santa Rosa's 247 passengers and 265 crewmen Encountered Fog The owners of the Santa Rosa the Grace Lines insisted after the crash that the liner was proceeding normally in perfect weather and that the Valchcm cut in front of her But Siwik said the Santa Rosa encountered fog before the crash And he admitted that he slow his ship from its cruising NEW YORK (AP)-The captain of the' liner Santa Rosa said Monday that his own loft turn may have caused his ship to collide with the tanker Valchcm last Thursday Capt Frank "Siwik of the Santa Rosa told a Coast Guard hearing that he saw the tanker on radar three minutes before the 3 am crash and ordered a hard left turn of going left at approx knately 2:57 am had you gate right would you have avoided a Siwik was asked "In all probability" the 50-year-old skipper replied Four Killed Four Valchcm crewmen died in the 3 am collision 22 miles off Atlantic City NJ A third body was recovered during the day in the wrecked stern of the tanker now in a Brooklyn shipyard It Sol Goldstein his wife mother and eight children were in the car Empty Trailer The trailer was described as a light metal shop-built type It was empty when it broke loose from (he Snowden car The accident was Investigated by Sgt Bill McCoy of the State Highway Patrol Funeral arrangements for Rivera will be announced by Walk-er-Mora Funeral Home speed of 21Vi knots about 24 mph Hie skipper of the Valchem Louis Murphy previously said in a statement that he drew to the right when he sighted the Santa Rosa on radar approaching head-on But Siwik testified that he turned in the same direction as the in a move that evidently counteracted the tanker's evasive action At the last minute Siwik continued within sight of the Valchcm and within sound of her fog horn he ordered a swing back in the opposite direction He estimated visibility in the fog at about a quarter of a mile In his turn on the witness stand Murphy 33 said that he had no way of knowing whether his ship was making any headway at the time of the collision He had claimed last week that his ship was stopped dead in the water because of the fog Asleep In Cabin Murphy said he had been on the tanker's bridge about 90 minutes before the crash But he testified he had returned to his cabin fallen asleep and awakened only when the Santa Rosa's fog whistle sounded almost in his ear Continued the tall blond skipper: "Our ship blew two prolAnged blasts I dashed right up to the bridge and straight into the wheelhouse I glanced at our radar and saw a target extremely it was extremely close" Murphy added that he never saw the Santa Rosa visually until the crash The Coast Guard hearing continues Tuesday Chicago Tribune Service LONDON The Royal Navy said Monday it had altered the 42009-ton carrier Eagle so that when Queen Elizabeth visits it on April 29 she won't have to lift her knees As with all carriers and other warships doorways through bulkheads are oval shaped with the bottom a loot or 18 inches above the floor The construction gives the bulkheads strength provides a tighter fit for the watertight doors and reduces the danger of water rushing throughout the ship if the craft is damaged But it also means that people walking about the ship must lift their knees smartly about every 15 steps For a woman in a skirt this can be embarrassing tiring and even dangerous So when the ship was in Gilbralter on its way to London workmen with torches cut away the lower part of the bulkheads extending the openings to the floor When the ship arrived in England some of its crew claimed the ship had lost its soawr-thiness But the Admiralty said the openings werp lowered only on decks -SO feet above the waterline Kaiser Plans To Build Entire City in Hawaii Sol Goldstein 50 of 404 Buccaneer Dr was dead on arrival at a local hospital at 4 pm yesterday He suffered a heart attack at his store 2941 Agnes Goldstein had been a resident here 14 years Survivors include his wife Mrs Ida Goldstein of Corpus Christi a son Elliott and a daughter Beverly two brothers Robert and Gershon a sister Mrs Lillian Turian all of New York and his mother Mrs Minnie Goldstein of Corpus Christi He was a member of Bnai Israel Synagogue and of Bnai Brith Funeral arrangements will be announced by Cage-Mills Funeral Home Ike May Travel South in Search Of Golf Weather Caller-TInies News Service ALICE An Alice school teacher was killed and three members of his family Injured one seriously when the car in which they were riding was struck by a runaway trailer on Highway 44 four miles west of Alice at 5:45 pm Monday Two cars carrying a total of 15 persons were hit by the trailer Frank Samuel Rivera Jr 27 was dead on arrival at Physicians and Surgeons Hospital Head Injury His four-year-old daughter Angelina suffered a serious head injury She and her mother Mrs Sylvia Rivera 25 were reported in fair condition by a hospital spokesman last night A second child Frank Rivera III 4 received minor cuts and bruises in the collision The accident occurred when a small two-wheel trailer broke loose from a car driven by Woodie Snowden and veered into the opposing traffic lane It struck the Rivera car head-on demolishing it then struck the side of a car following Snowden's The second auto hit by the trailer was heavily damaged along the left fender and door but the driver and 10 passengers escaped injury Francisco Segovia 48 of 5322 Burton Lane Corpus Christi HARRISONBURG Va (AP)-Charlottesvillc's new school assignment plan which envisions some desegregation in September was approved Monday by US Dist Judge John Paul Paul met for 35 minutes with John Battle Jr counsel for the Charlottesville School Board and Oliver Hill of Richmond an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People No objections to the plan were raised during the meeting In Good Faith Paul said he had every reason to believe the assignment plan had been drawn by the school board in good faith and he commented that the board should have time to try it out He retained the case on his docket in case there was need for further court action Twelve Negroes were ordered into the all-white Lane High and Venable Elementary schools last September an action which brought the closing of the two schools under the state's now defunct massive resistance laws Had Tutors The 12 Negroes remained out of school while the two schools were closed but have been tutored since the schools reopened in February "The plan contemplates admission of the group now being tutored and there may be some others to qualify under it before Battle said after the meeting "The extent of that will depend entirely on the number that may seek transfers But I do not anticipate much integration next year The plan places assignment powers in the hands of the school superintendent and specifics that area of Koko Head an extinct volcano crater on the southeastern tip of Oahu Island on which Honolulu Is located Kaiser is building a home on a seven-acre site there His announcement said an agreement for integrated projects in the new city had been entered into by Kaiser builder Fritz Burns who has been HONOLULU UR Industrialist Henry Kaiser and associates announced Monday plans to build an entire new city near Honolulu for 50 000 people They said the resort and residential city would cover 6000 acres and represent an Investment of 350 million dollars The project is by far the most ambitious undertaken here by Eric (Joker) Harlan Kaiser who is expanding his big hi 10 years archltect Miser wno is welton Becket head of Welton Hawaiian village hotel resort cen- ter at Waikiki Beach Hie community will be in the Becket Associates of Los Angeles and the trustees of the Bernice Bishop Estate of Honolulu which owns the land The announcement said they plan to start building "within a matter of months" The project envisions resort hotels private homes in various price brackets luxury apartment buildings a marina for boating and water sports and other Dulles Arrives For Florida Rest Funeral services lor Eric (Joker) Harlan 69 retired veteran police officer will be announced by Clifford Jackson Funeral Home Harlan whose home was at 4001 Green Grove died jester-' day morning after a heart at-'m i i tack He was found slumped over 1 13111 HODDd the steering wheel of his car at ft Annapolis and Norton LllCS Ol LailCCl Harlan retired in January after the city sister Corpus forces in SAN FRANCISCO UR-One three brothers who dynamited Oregon mail train in a 1923 attempt died of Sunday He was Hugh D'Autremont Paroled last Jan 9 he Maiue Woman Accused in Court Slugs Rapist WASHINGTON President Eisenhower just back from Gettysburg may go to Augusta Ga next week in search of warm weather and pleasant exercise The Eisenhowers spent Easter at their Gettysburg where the weather permitted only one round of golf during the weekend Press secretary James Hag-orty told reporters that personal doctor and his staff in general feel the President should take a rest in a sunny climate Hagerty hastened to say in reply to questions that Eisenhower is not ailing He just needs a change of scene from the White House routine Hagerty said This week Eisenhower has two speaking engagements He will address a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council here on Thursday On Saturday he will return to Gettysburg for a speech at a Gettysburg College convocation This speech has been described in advance as an important one dealing with the international Nicholas Murder Trial Jury Picked PALM BEACH Fla (AP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles landed at Palm Beach Air Force Base Monday to begin a Florida convalescence from cancer He came here on President Eisenhower's personal plane Columbine III Dulles alighted without assistance Newsmen said' Guy Benjamin Hebert he looked wan nearly 30 years with police department He is survived by a Mrs Holbert of Christi and a son Walter Harlan with the armed facilities PORTLAND Maine (API-Municipal Court was turned into a momentary uproar Monday when a woman grabbed the man she accused of raping her and belted him with a roundhouse right Miss Leona Gagnon 33 ofporill 24-CoUIltV Millinocket rushed from the rear of the courtroom pushed Attyl gipau(0 Firill Gaspar Tevanian aside and INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-A jury to try Minnie (Connie) Nicholas for the slaying of her prominent married fcvpr was completed he exclude all racial considers- Monday wltll agiwmcnt 0 two alternates The first wit tion Missile Submarines Are Pushed by Navy of an robbery cancer 55 only was permitted to come to San Francisco to work as linotype operator On Feb 15 he became ill and was sent to the hospital where he died On Oct 11 1923 D'Autremont and his brothers twins Roy and Ray dynamited a Southern Pacific train near Siskiyou Ore One crewman was killed in the blast and three others were shot to death The brothers fled wjth no money The hunt for them ended in 1927 Hugh under an assumed name was with the Army in the Philippines Roy and Ray were working in a factory in Steubenville Ohio AH three were sentenced to prison Ray is still there Roy is in a mental hospital He declined to halt for photographers and would make no state ment An Air Force car escorted by Florida patrolmen immediately whisked him off to Kobe Sound about 20 miles north of here He will stay at the home of home Undersecretary of State Douglas Dillon will with Hebert Peace death Funeral services for Guy Benjamin Hebert 65 of 1214 Vance be at 4 pm today at Maxwell Dunne Funeral Chapel burial in Holy Cross Cemetery was found dead at his Sunday Justice of the Johnny Roberts ruled from natural causes Hebert owned and operated grocery at 5002 Bonham grabbed Fred A Wright 33 of Portland by the coat lapel and hit him square in the face Court Recorder Walter Murrell recessed court while the worn' an screaming and sobbing was taken from the court room He continued Wright's case until Friday and held him in $10000 bail French Village Argues Election ness two police officers will take the stand Tuesday Agreement on the 12 jurors and two all married men after a jury search which consumed 10 days of court sessions since the trial officially opened March 16 Delivery of 26 preliminary instructions to the jury by Judge Thomas Faulconcr and opening statements by the state and defense will precede the actual start of testimony HOUSTON ID Lincoln Liberty Life Insurance Co said Monday that one of the largest insurance companies in covering 24 southern has been established by two McAllen men Lincoln Liberty President Lloyd Bentzen Jr said general agents Buckner and Charles Stewart have joined in an agency which will cover all of South Texas except Cameron County It Red Orders Halt To Bis Funerals Former TV Company Loses Judgment WASHINGTON The Navy is continuing to urge a speed-up of its Polaris missile launching submarine program but defense officials said Monday that barring change of mind development will follow the planned schedule As early as January 1958 the Navy testified favoring the speedier building of a fleet of atomic powered submarines each capable of launching 16 nuclear explosive missiles Six Polaris submarines are now under construction and advanced work on three additional vesels is scheduled to start in July The budget for the fiscal year starting in July contains requests for funds to start an additional three making a total of 12 in the program approved by the Mother will have its headquarters in Mc-'Communiyt Party sccrotary in So- Goillg tO Clll)3 Allen and cover an area fromiviet Georgia has told his followers Eagle Pass to Port Lavaca to cut out big funerals and big Offices are now located in Wes- weddings to avoid disrupting work laco Edinburg Mission Corpus He said such afiairs were sur- WHITING Ind (AP)-A but determined mother to fly to Cuba Amphibious Group Switch Scheduled worried prepared Monday night on a personal crusade to free her adventurer son from a CALAIS France The village of Hermelinghcn near Calais has 214 residents two mayors and a noisy argument The city council met recently to name a new mayor after municipal elections The first time around outgoing mayor Paul Bu-tor got five votes with two abstentions and four scattered ballots That wasn't an absolute majority so the council voted again The second time candidate Henri Du-terte got eight votes and was declared elected A look at the rule book the next day however showed that because of the two abstentions liter needed only five voted The council was called together again couldn't agree on what to do and tossed the issue to the subprefecture in Calais Sewer Explosion Injures 2 Men Laredo and vjvais 0f an ancient tradition and Christi Robs town Victoria have no place in modern Soviet fsu former superin- (CUoan prison Buckner is a tendent of schools at Pharr and life' EaPdBy Enounced were A judgment of $67682 has been returned against the Coastal Bend Television Co one-time operator of a former local television station KVDO A judgment in favor of the Radio Corp of America was filed in federal court yesterday The order called for foreclosure of $168000 worth of electronics equipment RCA had sued for defaulted payment on the equipment The judgment was issued against the Coastal Bend Television Corp ruling that South Texas Telecasting Co never took legal possession of the equipment because RCA did not approve the sale SAN DIEGO CaliL The Navy said Monday that 14 ships of Amphibious Squadron 1 would leave April 16 to replace Squadron 7 with the Seventh Fleet in the western Pacific The movement is routine Each squadron of the four in the Pacific Fleet Amphibious Command is composed of attack transports and landing ships funerals that wind up in drinking bouts of a week or more Stewart is a former assistant football coach at the same town SAN DIEGO OPENINGS NATO Allies Planning Sub Research Center SAN ANTONIO A sewer line explosion rocked a part of the west side Monday injuring two men First reports said the blast probably came from natural gas seeping into a new sewage line workmen were laying Manhole covers were blown off over an area of several blocks Witnesses said Gregorio Benavides 25 was blown from the new line He suffered burns The other injured man is Fernando Fuentcs 25 He was standing outside Ihe ditch where the line was being laid His injuries were not serious is -Mrs Helen Lynch's description of charges her son Alan Nye 31 was hired for $100000 to assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro She was scheduled to be accompanied on the flight by Joseph Sullivan a Whiting lawyer who made a fruitless trip to Havana earlier this year in an effort to aid Nye been there 100 days now" Mrs Lynch said of her son a former Navy pilot "and I'm not leaving until he's free" Non-Journeymen Get Employment Call CROSSWORD PUZZLE Car-Horse Accident Hurts Kingsville Girl WASHINGTON (AP)-The US Navy cooperating with eight North Atlantic pact allies will establish an antisubmarine research center at La Spezia Italy in May The US Navy will contribute a team of seven officers and six enlisted men Similar contributions of personnel are scheduled from Britain France Italy West Germany the Netherlands Norway Denmark and Canada The first employment call for workers with ratings below that of journeyman was received yesterday by the employment assistance office in the Overhaul Repair Department at Naval Air 56 Schoolbook 60 Japanese ihoc-sock 61 Porridge: Sp Am 63 Fondness 64 Spread 65 At no time 66 Vocal part 67 Healthy 68 Deplete 69 Airless cubby hole Caller-Tbnea News Service GEORGE A 5-year-old Kingsville girl received minor in Israeli Minister Says Nasser Is Dictator Japs Plan Foreign Agriculture Centers Station juries in a car-horse collision 14 29 Openings 31 Pith helmet 32 An art form 33 Married again 36 Swlshy dance 39 Ghostly 40 Captains 43 Sulphuric acid 45 Varnishlike coat 47 Mission 49 Falsehood 51 Chemical compound 53 Put away 54 In good health 55 Biblical figure 56 Committed murder 57 Knowledge 58 Badness 59 Actual 62 Eggs Holland's Farming Praised by Castro fabricator and electric equipment and parts repairman Qualified apprentices having completed at least two years of training and helpers as well as journeymen are acceptable This includes the 1500 who were discharged Feb 20 and those to be dismissed Friday All 3000 workers here are to be laid off by July 1 Interested personnel should submit applications not later than 3 pm today either to the Texas Employment Commission office 820 Buffalo or at the employment assistance office TOKYO Japan's Agriculture-Forestry Ministry plans to establish agricultural centers in Pakistan and Cambodia this year to extend Japanese farming technique to Southeast Asian countries The centers will be the first of their kind set up abroad by Japan The call came from the San Diego Naval Air Station but it is nut known how many are needed The San Diego office said it had openings for workers in several aircraft assembler accessory and part repairman engine accessories and parts repairman electronic installer metal miles south of George West on Highway 281 about 7:30 pm Monday Rose Marie Garza riding in an auto with her father Francisco Rodriguez Garza 306 West Nettie Kingsville suffered a sprained arm Garza escaped -injury The horse was killed Highway Patrolman George Higdon investigated the accident ACROSS 1 Rough file 5 Member of the wedding 10 Particular area 14 Scent 15 Permission 18 Fuss 17 Man 18 Perfume 19 Cupid 20 Supply 22 Plowmea 24 Blunder 25 Pertaining to kidneys 26 Period of human culture: 2 wds 30 Rhetorician 34 Section 35 Cut 37 Move as In darkness 38 Die away 39 Make one'a own 41 Church aeat 42 Vibrant 44 Nurse a grievance 45 Withered 46 Go on pension 48 Where to hammer BA Bushed 52 Paatry 53 Dividers HAVANA Prime Minister Fidel Castro says Cuban farmers should follow the example of tlfe Netherlands in agricultural methods He told a gathering of peasants and workers "Holland uses every inch of her land They have industry These people are working" Punle of Monday March 80 Solved JERUSALEM Israeli Sector (AP) Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir said in Parliament Monday President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic is an ambitious dictator aiming to subjugate other countries in the Middle East She said latest developments between Baghdad Iraq and Cairo induce some Western circles to wish again to strengthen the Egyptian dictator and increase his power out of false hope that in this manner there is a prospect of attracting him to the West "We have no doubt such hopes are utterly without foundation and it seems to be there are more people who agree with us than DOWN 1 Frolic 2 Hebrew month 3 Piece for one 4 Keep from happening 5 Gala atllrs: 2 wds 6 Network 7 Grain heed 8 Egg-shaped 9 Breed of iherp 10 Of star quality 11 Study 12 Smell 13 Throw 21 Indignation 23 Bulky 25 Echo 26 Pierce 27 Festal board 28 Satellite's course Jcl Crash Kills Texan Uf PRISONER WINGED TOKYO W) Maj Jack Chandler 35 Huntsville Texas died Monday when his T33 jet trainer crashed near Johnson Air Base 25 miles northwest of Tokyo Also killed in the crackup was Capt Joe Rhiley 34 Oshkosh Nev whose wife formerly lived in Fort Worth 4jT Nf IlkLMte IV-AifrDjliy IBfiO It AL M'ffIL C'r'l vote ctcaeM 82-Year-Old Deputy Halts Jailbreak With One Shot say what ths heart is too full to sxprsss Reassuring Life insurance is a very important matter You need the best possible advice find it very reassuring to be advised by a CA Man so obviously an expert in his field The CA Man down a halfway and out through the north door "I told the other prisoner to stay put and then stepped out the said the sharpeyed deputy "I called twice for him to stop but he just kept running so I fired "I hit him about two inches from where I wanted to Just wanted to wing not kill him" The other prisoner heeded Graves He didn't stir Hospital attendants later reported McCampbell in leg irons and under guard was in satisfactory condition Murder Conviction Court records showed McCampbell was convicted of murder in 1951 and later drew prison sentences for car stealing and felony theft Associates said it 'was no ac AMARILLO UR It took just one shot by Deputy Sheriff John Graves 82-year-old former Texas Ranger to halt an attempted jail-break Monday Levelling his six-shooter at a running prisoner the veteran officer dropped him on the lawn 50 feet from the Potter County courthouse door The courthouse is in the heart of downtown Amarillo Hamilton Delaware McCamp-bell Jr 32 fell with a 38 caliber bullet wound in his right shoulder He had heard himself sentenced a few minutes earlier to 10 years in prison for auto theft Dashed Down Hall Graves a peace officer for 56 years had just taken McCamp-hell and another prisoner from a fourth floor courtroom to the ground level McCampbcll dashed cident that the elderly deputy known as dropped his man at 50 paces Among fellow officers known as one of the best pistol shots in the Southwest Graves first became a peace officer at 18 in his native Ben County in Central Texas He joined the Texas Rangers two years later serving during what he calls "the wild on the Mexican border and has been a deputy sheriff here since 1924 Young Witness An entranced witness to the attempted break was Loren Bullard 12 of Amarillo who was standing beside the elevator door as McCampbcll broke free "The sheriff (Graves) went to the door and told him to stop" Loren recounted "Then he drew that six-shooter and it went pow Two-Car Collision Kills Denton Woman DALLAS Ul Mrs Juanita Ruth Shattel 52 of Denton died Monday in a two car wreck involving a Wichita Falls car Six were hurt Mrs Bonnie Walker 73 and Walter Schatteel husband of the dead woman were injured Mrs Walker seriously Both are from Denton The others hurt were in the other car and all are from Wichita Falls They are Charles Morris 64 and his wife Patricia 62 both injured seriously about the head their son Navy Lt John Morris and Mrs Mattie Haynir both of whom received cuts COIONIAL AMERICAN CD 'Jeissmmnmhft Jit WATER AT PEOPLES ST CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS I 4iO A IQ -A an AdK-as iAAA- UH idWiS i sww o- I'.

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