Big Spring Daily Herald (Newspaper) - July 3, 1958, Big Spring, Texas v 1C SPRING AND VICINITY Partly ut warm Friday witk widely Mattered tke area K Uw High K BIG SPRING DAILY HERALD INSIDE THF Hf AP WIRE SERVICE 306 Words Get Lots Of Fanfare By EDMOND LE BRETON WASHINGTON AP Rarely has this the spoken word is anything but 306 words launched with so much fanfare The words were Bernard Gold fines account Wednesday night of how some of his favors to aide Sherman Adams came to be charged off as busi ness expenses Goldfine a Boston millionaire said favors for Adams including hotel bills were deducted by his accountants as business expenses He said hes willing to adjust his tax returns f the Internal Reve nue Service feels he made a mis take For a score of reporters the launching intended largely for newsreel a frus experience There also was some evidence it was frustrating for a ruddy and gregari man He seemed to want to talk to the one of his lawyers wouldnt let him Presiding over the production was Tex McCrary television per and public relations man McCrary told reporters neither the White House nor the Republi can National Committee had brought him in to work with Gold fine Hi said he was helping out an old friend Roger Robb one of lawyers and was get ting neither pay nor expenses TO BALL ROOM The newsmen were summoned to a hotel ballroom by word that Goldfine would distribute his statement at 8 p m and read it for the newsreels a later When they arrived at 8 they found the story already was in most of their offices because it had been telephoned to the wire services an hour earlier and Goldfine wasnt expected before 9 at the earliest Bottles and canapes were wheeled in and McCrary said the drinks were on Goldfine He smiled bravely when somebody asked Goldfine was go ing to take the bar off his taxable income Nine oclock came and went while the reporters read pers and interviewed McCrary Goldfine arrived at accom BIG SPRING TEXAS THURSDAY JULY 3 1958 Dear Abby Editorial ZB OH Newt TV Lag Wameas New by McCrary announced lawyer Samuel Sears called for quiet and a rehearsal Goldfine read his statement with lights but no cameras A reporter shouted a question about Goldfine and Adams Soars was on his feet in a flash Dont talk No talking Not a word he advised his client The reporter persisted Dont press advised McCrary still hanging on to that smile The live reading followed sev eral times over Reporters kept trying Sears kept objecting Finally a desperate reporter asked Mr Goldfine to what do you attribute your rosy cheeks rr M rJ fJ Walking happily Goldfine replied The newsmen bored in Did he walk as much as former dent Harry Truman I walk faster Goldfine said Then the questioning goc around to Adams again and Sears went back into action As Sears steered his client out of the room Goldfine told the hov ering reporters You are all fine gentlemen Benavides Dies Of Gun Wounds Leon Bonavides shot in the leg and stomach early last Fri day died last night in a local hospital Benavides of 901 NW also suffered head injuries in the inci dent at Frontier Lodge Motel on west U S 80 Joe Torres 307 N Bell was charged with assault with intent to commit murder as a result of the shooting He has been at liber ty under bond Torres wife Trinidad received mirror head injuries officers said She was not hospitalized however Body of Benavides will be taken to Odessa for funeral services but arrangements are incomplete Funeral Home will be in charge Gift From Adams Beroard Goldfine holds up a wrist watch as he sits at witness chair before House in Washington Goldfine said this watch Js one of two given to him by Sherman Adams and he particularly treasures it because of the date on its 20 President first inauguration day Aides Named As Gift Recipients WASHINGTON secre tary to Sherman Adams and an aide to Rep McCormack CD Mass were named in House hear ings today as having received Christmas checks from Bernard Goldfine Eugene Kinnaly administrative assistant to McCormack denied to newsmen that he had received a check He said he had received food and fruit as a Christmas gift McCormack is the House Demo cratic leader Goldfine in the witness chair of a House investigating committee of 37 names counsel said was given a list which committee came from incontrovertible proof that Goldfine had made payments to federal employes in both the present and past administrations Goldfine pictured these as to 50 Christmas gifts to some of the poor workers in the White House and at the Capitol Goldfine said if thats bad Id like to be told about it Then the Boston industrialist and friend of Adams No 1 aide o President Eisenhower fied one of the 37 as Kinnaly Goldfine said that was the first name on the list Rep Peter F Mack said another name on the list was a secretary to Adams named Laura G Sherman DENIES LINK But he denied a suggestion that may explain the mysterious dis position of threequarters of a mil lion dollars He refused to give House in his records on the of checks drawn on funds of his enterprises but never cashed said he had Kinnaly for many years known Robert W Lishman counsel for House subcommittee investi gating relations with Adams and with other officials a 1 federal agencies handed the list of 37 names to Goldfine Lish man asked him to identify the persons Lishman said he was to find out what happened to three quarters of a million dollars worth of Goldfine company checks that remain outstanding and still un over a long period of time We have records subpoenaed from the Pilgrim Trust Co of Lishman said incon proof that Mr Gold fine made it apparently a prac tice to have treasurers checks purchased which he used for pay ments to various employes both past and present in the White House and on the Hill The Hill was a reference to Congress coming from Capitol Hill TOO BASHFUL Lishman then handed the list of 37 names to Goldfine saying the checks may have gone to employes who may have beer too bashful toget them cashed Goldfine rM not immediately identify any one on the list pub except Kinnaly But he protested that only a small portion of the checks rep resented payments to federal of lie records on declined the full to produce amount as Lishman sought Goldfine contended that the checks were not relevant to the stated aim of the subcommittees check on how federal regulatory agencies are following the Jaw Lishman questioned Goldfine on his understanding of the differ ence between a treasurers check drawn against a bank and an ordinary personal check Is it not a fact Lishman asked that a treasurers check is purchased in the name of the person that is to receive it and masks the identity of the person who gives the check Goldfine disagreed saying that a letter always goes along with these checks explaining who they are from Yes but your name never ap pears on the check Lishman in a photo Lishman Here Ill hand you static copy of one said All right Goldfine said testi ly Hand me one Goldfine said his signature did not appear on it Lishman asked Goldfine if he understood that a treasurers check was good indefinitely or un til the issuing bank went bank rupt whereas a personal check expired by law unless wilhm a year of issuance I only learned that today replied Goldfine Sweetwater Mon Joins Hereford Unit John W Jones who has been serving as a for Pace Pack ing Co at Sweetwater has been named field representative for the Texas Hereford Assn He will succeed Bjt Reyes who resigned recently to enter private business Jones who is a native of Brady a graduate of Texas Tech and who did grad work at Texas College will be located in Fort Worth headquarters for the association DEARLY PAPER TOMORROW v In observance of Independence Day The Herald will be pub at noon Friday Deadline on Classified ad must be moved up to 9 am Please call your Classified information tomor row by that hour Khrushchev Urges Peace Proposal MOSCOW AP So mier Nikita Khrushchev today for an West Pre called confer ence of military and civilian ex perls to work out an agreement to prevent surprise attacks by one nation upon another Khrushchev made his proposal in a letter to President er delivered in Washington Wednesday and released at a for eign ministry news conference in Moscow this afternoon He suggested the United States and the Soviet Union take the in in calling conference that the conference le held in the near future and that the partici States and possibly pants include the the Soviet Union representatives of some other government The State Department after translating the page document rushed a copy o Eisenhower last night Some US officials were ed to regard Khrushchevs sugges tions as more promising than the formerly unacceptable proposals he has set forth thus far for tion of each others territory While refusing to divulge details some officials said Khrushchevs ideas if sincere could eventually open the dfrf to limited EastWest co operation to guard against sudden attack Press officer Lincoln White noted this is a problem on which the United States has itself taken lie initiative since President Ei open skies tion proposal in 1955 Russias earlier inspection plan called for both sides to check ar and military movement in a Central European area 800 kilometers on each of the West bast German frontier Western nations rejected this as unaccept able on the grounds it would tend to perpetuate the division of Ger many and because of other con ditions the Soviets attached to the plan Eisenhower had proposed that the Soviets agree to an arctic in zone as a starling point to allay Soviet fears that Ameri can atomic bombers on routine training flights might attack So viet territory The Soviets bitterly rejected this in a United Nations debate in May PRICE FIVE CENTS Rebel Rel ease Claim Victims Were TWENTY PAGES TODAY Ord ers ners GUANTANAMO Cuba broadcast from the mountain headquarters of rebel leader Fidel Castro has ordered the release of all Americans and Canadians held by rebels in the mountain jungles near here Five of the 50 kidnaped by bands under Castros brother Raul were released last night The broadcast said Castro knew nothing about the kidnaping of 47 Americans and 3 Canadians due to difficulties in communications It said Castro had ordered Raul to release the men Raul com mands rebels in the northern sec tion of rebellious Oriente Prov ince The broadcast monitored in Puerto Rico said We know they the captives actually were not taken as hos tages but only as observers so they could see how President Fulgencio forces kill Cuban civilians using arms fur by the United States A speedy return of more kid naped North Americans was ex here after US Consul Park Wollum came out of the hills with five captives in a US Navy helicopter yesterday Wol lum returned with five of the 12 engineers seized by the rebels at the Moa Mining Coin Northeast ern Cuba last Thursday TO RESUME TODAY Darkness halted the flights but the helicopter was readied to re sume operations today In all rebels kidnaped 47 Americans and 3 Canadians and spirited them into the mountains of Oriente from which Castro has carried on his guerrilla cam Among those seized were 30 American sailors and Marines from the base Wollam and Vice Consul Henry Wiecha were sent over the week end to make contact with rebels Wiecha remained in hills to continue negotiations the the Wollam indicated those still held would be freed soon He said he had seen a number of the men including some servicemen scat tered in various small rebel camps They are all fine and in good health he said Edward Cannon 53 of Corn wall Ont said he was present at the conference with Raul Cas tro and the rebel leader broth er of Fidel promised to stop kidnaping foreigners Others in the Moa group re leased were Henry Salmonson 46 Portland Ore Anthony Chamber lain Coral Gables Fla Howard A Roache N Y and William Koster 63 Akron Ohio LOOKED WEARY They looked weary alter five days in captivity Some were un shaven and most clothes But they praised their captors and Chamberlain said a rebel doctor treated him for his chronic headaches We were treated fine all the time and made a lot of friends said Salmonson Judging from his statements the rebels apparently planned the kidnap campaign to dramatize their charges that the United President campaign Ful to States is helping crush the rebels The United States has denied supplying forces for the drive and canceled all arms shipments to Cuba on March 14 Salmonson said they were kept on a coffee plantation screened from the air by foliage He said they were taken on swimming trips and on jeep tours of the wilderness area We had good food and enough of it although it was all Cuban cooking and beds with clean sheets on them he added Castro May Not Permit Flights HAVANA Cuba informed sources here said rebe leader Fidel Castro would not per mit any US helicopter flights into the hills of eastern Cuba to day to bring out more North Americans held captive there Five were brought out Wednesday night and the understanding was that more were to come today The informants here said a snag had developed in overtures by US consular officials for their release Alaska Statehood Celebration Parade High Cost Of Insurance May Cancel Local Fireworks Show Big Springers probably stage their Fourth ot July will cele Harris Subject Of Search Into Past Rep today WASHINGTON AP Oren Harris DArk said mysterious phone calls inquiring into his past have been made o his constituents during this weeks Goldfine hearings Harris is chairman of the House committee investigating relations between Bernard Goldfine Boston industrialist and Sherman Adams No l aide to President Eisen hower Harris told reporters he had heard rumors that lawyers and Lets AH Just Grin And Bear It JACKSONVILLE FJa API Three bears came knocking at a home night in suburban Marietta last A woman who said shed heard a commotion outside her house for three nights turned on a porch light and saw a big bear Duval County Patrolmen H B Seymour and L B Williams found the tracks of a big bear medium size bear nnd a small bear They racked the trio to a nearby swamp This will bear watching said Seymour Swim Pool Airport Projects Progress rap Work is proceeding two projects construction crew at the airport began the spreading of caliche in preparation for paving the runway at the airport day morning At the same lime concrete was poured for the swim ming pool in Park The operation in completed in 6 the park was hours and re quired about 80 yards of concrete Funeral Set For Bishop FitzSimon AMARILLO Funeral mass wifi be held Tuesday at 10 am for the Most Rev Laurence Fitz Simon bishop of the Amarillo Dio cese of the Roman Catholic Church The Rev died Wednesday after a fouryear ill ness He was 63 and had been bishop for 17 years public relations men were trying to intimidate his committee He said he also had heard ru mors all over Washington that his office telephone was being tapped But no charges Har ris said He said he put no stock in the wiretapping rumor and had not even bothered to check with the telephone company about it But he said that seven of his constituents in his Arkansas district had reported re long distance telephone calls from New York and Chicago Do you think somebody is try ing to dig up some dirt on a reporter asked Im making no charges Har ris replied He said callers asked about his political background and whether Id any rides in air planes owned by private individ like that Huge Ranch Bought By Midland Oilman Purchase of the Fowlkes Ranch in the Big Bend area by Lcn G 35 Midland oilman was announced Wednesday played football for Baylor University and later pro ball for Baltimore and Washington The ranch is one of the 12 largest single unit ranches on the North American continent Water Consumption Soars Wednesday Water consumption here gained almost a million gallons day over the previous day Usage here Wednesday was 8 763000 gallons while it was 7 827000 gallons Tuesday a for the first two days of July Estimated July consumption is 280 million gallons During June Ihc city and used 236 million bration tomorrow without the tra fireworks display The Chamber of Commerce fireworks sponsor was having dif today in efforts to find in surance coverage at a price could afford A new state law uncovered Wednesday by Midland Lions Clubs who also planned a fire works show requires public lia insurance of for group injuries The Chamber had such a policy arranged through the Burnett Fireworks Co of Enid Okla but slate fire insurance officials told Quimby Chamber manager the insurance isnt acceptable in Texas The coverage was provided by Lloyds of London at a premium of Quimby said Quimby reported local insurance agents were attempting to locate a Texas firm which will provide at a price the Cham ber feels it can afford However preliminary estimates were that same as the cost of the fireworks Quimby said Chamber cant afford to pay more than for the coverage It looks pretty bleak he add ed The fireworks law also requires a permit from the stale fire marshall but the permit cant be secured until the insurance is written Quimby was told State officials said they would telegraph he permit to Big Spring as quick V I y as they receive that the insurance is certification in force Midland Lions and the Country Club announced plans to cancel their fireworks shows be cause they were unable to comply with the new law effective last Feb 1 The chiet of the Licensing Divi sion for the State Insurance De A W Penn said at Austin that some groups and cit ies complained about the high rates and because they didnt know of the new law He said most of the clubs probably could have secured satisfactory bond in lieu of the insurance A Midland theater group met the require ments in filing for a permit Wednesday Penn added Businesses Closing Down For Holiday Celebration Business activity was grindin o a halt this afternoon as Big Spring prepared to join the res of the nation Friday in the cele bration of U S independence The big Fourth of July holiday will see hundreds of local famil es heading for lakes and parks or on weekend trips to other points and law enforcement officials are irging everyone to abide by al he rules of safely One of the most tragic three day weekends in the nations his lory is being predicted by safety officials and authorities here urge hat Big Spring and Howard Coun y residents take care to avoid he lists of traffic mis laps and other tragedies that wil be published during the weekend Special care with fireworks is by Fire Chief If V ocker Each year someone here s injured by fireworks Crocker minted out and last year oys were hurt seriously in a fire works accident Banks stores public offices ami all but a few service stations restaurants are to shut down Fri and Ike Dulles Talk Over De Gaulle Visit WASHINGTON AP Secre ary of State Dulles conferred vith President Eisenhower today before taking off for a meeting vith Gen Charles de Gaulle could bring a showdown on he issue of coopera ion in nuclear weapons produc lon Dulles is expected to urge the premier to cooperate with and the United Stales in negotiations with the Soviet Un on looking toward a possible ban n nuclear weapons esting r Gaulle is expected on his De Alaska Invited To Wool Pageant SAN ANGELO A Miss Alaska has been invited to com pete in the annual Miss Pageant Aug 28 Wool part to raise Ike issue of US in making France a nuclear power if France should forego its prospective program of nu clear is complicated be cause Congress has just approved sharing of secrets with Britain But provisions of the law governing ng are much tougher as they apply to France Dulles is due to leave for ranee at 7 pm The United States itself has not decided firmly whether to seek a cst suspension agreement but preliminary technical talks on the possibility are under way at Ge neva The about problem of what o do likely a suspensions to be the most wide ranging issues which Dulles will discuss on a flying trip to the French capital beginning tonight Officials said that the will cover Frances persistent economic plight marked by a shortage of foreign ex change the Middle East crisis with emphasis on Lebanon the North African troubles centering around Algeria relations wilh Russia pni as they involve prospects for a summit conference and the problem of cooperation in the field of atomic energy uses It is on the nuclear issue srd specifically the question of sus pending tests that the most seri differences could arise France has been reported af the threshold of developing its nuclear weapons and becoming the worlds fourth atomic power ing with the United States Brit ain and Russia Atomic weapons however can not be developed without test ex plosions such as the Big Three in this have already carried out The Eisenhower administra tion undertook to meet his prob lem by proposing to share U S nuclear weapons secrets with its alies Congress passed and Eisen hower signed v giving the administration much of the authority it asked But Con gress wrote into the tions which effectively restricted the results of weapons tests and other such highly secret informa tion io Great Britain One of Dulles handicaps in dealing with De Gaulle on this is sue therefore is that the United Slates is in a position of favoring Britain above the other allies day for Day hol iday Highlight of he celebration here will be the Miss Big Spring and Miss Howard County beauty pag eant to be staged in the City Park Amphitheatre at pm Some 65 girls are seeking the two beau ty titles and arrangements are being made to accommodate a crowd of several thousand at the park Police Chief C L Rogers said that every available man would be working Friday in an effort to cut down on the possibility of ac here Rogers also said that the de would be using the ra dar set in an effort to slow down excessive speeds We dont want the flow of traffic but we do want to keep motorists within the legal speed limits Scattered Showers Expected In Texas Scattered showers were expect ed over Texas Thursday and Fri day Generally good weather was ex for the July 4th holiday Some scattered thundershowers fell over the northeast Panhandle early Thursday Skies were fair otherwise except for some early morning cloudiness over South Texas Dawn temperatures were most ly in the 70s ranging at Dalhart to 81 at Galveston and El Paso Sobol WATCH FOR THIS QUICK SERIES STARTING IN THE HERALD MONDAY
