Big Spring Daily Herald (Newspaper) - March 11, 1960, Big Spring, Texas TODAYS WEATHER 1 V BIG SPRING AND VICINITY Cloudy lo partly cloudy through Saturday Colder Oils afternoon and tonight Warmer Satur day High today 48 low tonight 27 high tomorrow 55 VOL 32 NO 239 BIG SPRING DAILY HERALD HERALD Page Church News 2B 2A Dear Abby i Editorials Womens News AP WIRE SERVICE BIG SPRING TEXAS FRIDAY MARCH 11 1960 PRICE FIVE CENTS Many Want To Help 7960 Census A few of the 71 applicants who look tests Thursday afternoon at the Howard County Junior College seeking to qualify as census enumerators arc shown in the photograph above Thirtyfive of the 71 who took the tests will be selected on the basis the examinations reveal to carry on the census in this county The crews will cover both Howard and Borden Counties Those se will be given a schooling March 2730 by Louis Stallings and Matt Harrington crew chiefs Each days tions will last four hours Each enumerator will be assigned a section of the city or rural area Everybody will soon receive in the mail a questionnaire which if promptly and correctly filled out will enable the examinator to fulfill his job in in a minimum of time Stallings predicts the census taking will last from two to three weeks Rescuers Battle Smoke Jo Reach Trapped Men LOGAN W Va workers stymied momentarily by thick blinding smoke today hauled pipes and wooden planks into the mine where 18 men have been trapped for more than four days by fire and rock slides State Mines Director Crawford L Wilson said the pipes and planks would be used to rig a makeshift ventilating system to clear the air and permit the res cue teams to battle on the re maining 1200 or so feet to the spot where the marooned miners are believed to be There has been no word from the 18 sine noon Tuesday when a telephone connection between them and the outside was broken Wilson hoped to have the ventilating system rigged by noon and to start flushing the air by early afternoon He said the fact that the air in the mine was not ventilating nor mally offered promise that the stranded men had rigged a bulk head and could be safe from the stifling smoke and deadly carbon monoxide that has plagued rescue workers With each anxious hour hope gave way to uncertainty And un certainty yielded to the dismal reality friat time is running out Those were Wilsons words Thursday night after a sixhour inspection of the shaft and the tunnel where the tense drama is being waged I am very deeply concerned because of the time element and we are working against a limit he said Then two hours later he ac knowledged grimly We still have a heat problem With that the veteran official went back to help direct the fight underground There still were rays of hope however Wilson said the intense heat in the tunnel walls was cooling off somewhat That meant it would probably be several hours more before crews could venture into a passageway leading to the men who are three to four miles from the shaft opening Another favorable factor among the trapped men is an ex pert He is William Donaldson a safety inspector who happened to be with them when the fire broke out about am Tuesday at the H olden 22 mine of the Isla Creek Coal Co near this south ern West Virginia city Company officials said Donald son could direct survival tactics such as putting up canvas walls to block off heat and fumes Masked teams of eight men each continued to pour water from 12 hoses onto the long mass of smoldering coal slate and rock Heat fumes and smoke and a cluttered tunnel floor hin dered their efforts While the fight to drown out the fire went on another crew threaded through abandoned pas and broke into the tun nel beyond the fire Yet because of the heat and possibility of further outbreak of flames they could not go on Wilson explained It was through this bypass that workers were pumping 20000 cubic feet of air a minute in hopes of sustaining the blocked miners Theyre a half mile be yond that point according to pres ent calculations Link Proposed WASHINGTON AP The Senate takes up today a proposal that efforts to obstruct court orders in labor and other cases carry the same penalty as simi lar actions in school integration cases The proposal by Sen Frank J Lausche would remove much of the sting felt by South erners from one section of the administrations civil rights The Southerners wona series of preliminary victories Thursday as the Senate rejected 5342 a move to limit debate defeated 5538 a proposal to give the attorney gen eral broad new civil rights powers and adopted unanimously a amendment reducing the penalties proposed for interfering with court orders The House accepted by a 31293 vote the procedures set forth by its Rules Committee for consider ing the Southern House members an they would not try to de lay a vote there through mentary maneuvering and re in return a promise that sufficient time to discuss the would be provided The Senate which has battled or nearly four weeks over civil legislation slowed its pace leaders said there will be no light session tonight and no meet ing Saturday amendment would ap ply to court orders in all types of cases a section of the administra ions civil rights providing criminal penalties for obstruction court orders in school integra ion cases Lausche said that if the Senate eft the provision unchanged it vould be pointing the finger im properly upon one section of the country This is one of the chief argu ments made by Southern senators They contend any such legislation should apply to injunctions issued n labor disputes and other cases rather than just to orders bar ring school segregation This part of the is aimed at any recurrence of the resist ance that met a court order in 1957 for the admission of Negro students to a high school in Lit le Rock Ark The Senate voted Thursday night to reduce the criminal pen alties from a fine or two years in jail to a fine or Trustees ReElect Faculty At All members of the Howard County Junior College were re elected for another term at the meeting of the college trustees Thursday afternoon Dr W A Hunt president of the college submitted a list of the 27 instructors four adminis and two librarians with a Ages 1115 Last Chance to register for the SOAP BOX DERBY at Tidwell Chevrolet Friday 1 to 6 pm Saturday 9 am to 6 pm You must be accompanied by parent or guardian Registration ehdi weekend statement that he recommended they be reemployed The board voted unanimously to accept his recommendation There are no additions to the faculty Dr Hunt said The trustees heard the routine monthly reports on college activi ties were told the highlights of the recent Louisville conference lege administrators which Hunt at tended and paid the current month ly bills The president of the college in formed the ail arrange ments for the election of trustees have been completed been printed selected and arrangements for the voting places made Voting in Big Spring will be at the Big Spring Senior High School at the school buildingin Forsan the school in Knott and at the new city hall in Coahoma Mrs Viola Robertson county tax collector appeared before the trustees i with a request that the board authorize a refund of taxes to a Negro woman who ently paid herManes twice The refund was ordered Attending the meeting were Horace Garrett chairman J A Coffee vice chairman K H Me Gibbon Tom Barber PaulD Ad ams and Dr P W Dr Hunt and Marvin one year in jail This amendment offered by Sen Sam J Ervin Jr DNC met no objection Even supporters of the said the penalties be unduly harsh Far more significant was a 55 38 vote tabling and thus killing an amendment to empower the at torney general to bring school in and other civil rights suits in behalf of individual citi zens Such power is now to voting rights cases The principal purpose the proposal was to enable the federal government to act against school segregation by filing suits for persons too poor or too in to initiate litigation themselves Sponsors contended that it was basic to any meaningful civi rights measure DICTATORSHIP Southern senators said the amendment would give the attor ney general sweeping authority for government by injunction and contended it would make him the director general for Integra lion through the nation The House measure may hold the key to the outcome of the Sen ate battle since in its form at least it is less objection able to Southern opponents Senate Republican Leader Eve rett M Dirksen of Illinois indi to reporters that he believe the Senate triay have to its cloture rule limiting debate get a vote in a This i might be done ho said time during the week start ing March 21 Like Senate Demo cratic Leader Lyndon B Johnso of Texas opposed the cloture mov made in the Swata Thursday premature Blind Phone Girl Helps Save Students PHILADELPHIA AP Blind Theresa Hayes was anxious that her parents know she at her Braille equipped Thursday risking her fe to help save 329 students afc le Overbrook School for the Blind a fire swept the main build ing Thats why the slim blonde id not fail in the performance f her duty I thought it was my duty to tay at the switchboard to bring s much help as I could reach o help the nurses rescue the chil dren she said as she shrugged ff acclaim as a heroine All of the students were led to but Fire Lt William Adgie 2 was killed fighting the blaze ix other firemen were injured I smelled the smoke ex lained Theresa but it didnt Other me I though it was my luty to stay at the switchboard I heard a big bang and the ound of breaking glass and some shouted at me to get from the switchboard I had 10 feeling of danger and stayed here until someone pulled off my and drew me from my chair Then a matron who was lead ng some students by the board ook hold of my hand and directed me out the main entrance Joseph G Cauffman principal of the school said the fire started n the bedroom of one of the employes who had been smoking Cauffman said a full scale investigation is under way Abilene Missile Work By June FORT WORTH tion of a Atlas missile launching complex around Dyess Air Force Base should start by June Col Walter J Wells Fort Worth District engineer for the US Corps of Engineers made the es timate Thursday u s SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY Rocket To Venus Orbit Asphyxiation Ruling Due In Mystery Death Jess Slaughter justice of the peace said today that he will rule that McGee Jr 22 young oil field worker came to his death on Wednesday from ation The decision is based on the findings of Dr Jarrett Williams Abilene pathologist who conduct ed an autopsy on the body of Mc Gee Dr Williams informed Bobby West investigator for the district attorney he found heavy concen tration of carbon monoxide in the victims body and no evidence of any other contributing factor which might have caused death The body of young McGea was found in a motel cabin Wednesday afternoon He had been dead for sometime in the room where the bed was discovered completely burned His body was burned but not charred Dr Williams said that the bruise tie had previously reported on Mc Gees caused by the head coming in contact with a flat surface It could have been caused when the youth fell to the floor Meantime it has been establish ed by investigators that McGee was alive as late as am on Wednesday morning Fern Cox deputy sheriff and West located four men who worked with Mc Gee on an oil rig near These men informed he officers that after the shift ended at mid night they and McGee came to Big Spring They spent the hours from 1 am until after 3 am together After that time McGee and one of the men remained to gether until am when the man brought McGee to the cabin The men the officers were told had spent the time drinking beer and talking Cox and West point out that if the stories told by the four com panions of tlie young victim are correct the knocking sounds re ported by Bernie McGuire at 3 am were not coming from Mc Gees quarters He had not return ed to the cabin at that hour They also are inclined to minimize the report of H Keith proprietor of the tourist court that he heard loud talk and a knocking sound coming from the cabin at 6 am They believe that young McGee was already dead by that hour Cities Postpone Gas Rate Appeal DALLAS group repre a number of Texas cities Thursday decided to postpone a decision on whether to appeal a increase in the gate rate for J W Monk Dallas utilities su was authorized to nego with the Lone Star Gas Co with a view of reducing the Rail road Commissioner order At the meeting were represent of Fort Worth Brownwood Austin Richardson Sweetwater Sherman Farmers Branch and Dallas Satellite Will Circle The Sun CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP broadest study ever under taken in deep space got success fully under way today with the launching of a package of instruments into orbit around the sun Its assignment is o report back to America on con ditions between the paths of the earth and Venus The payload was hoisted from this missile test center by a towering rocket 5 seconds after am EST Three hours later in Washington of the National ics and Space Administration an the thrust iad given it speed enough to scape the earths gravitational mil and that it had gone into or it that will take it 74700000 miles from the sun at its nearest Planning had been limed at an approach within 67 million miles The probe named Pioneer V intended to radio back data on uch phenomena as radiation and micrometeorites rom distances up to 50 million miles and scientists hope for The information on conditions is needed for the day when man may fly to the far reaches The test is a check oh earth can keep in touch vith such a man or with the un manned satellites that will blaze he trail NASA officials said just after 1 that the payload had been the rocket at a ty miles an vas 575 miles an hour above the required to put the space Her into orbit i around the sun and 150 miles of the planned velocity The Washington scientists said he route of the new space probe vould take it 18 million miles closer to the sun than the orbit of Venus They would make ts closest approach to the sun in ts first swing around the sun about five months from now The scientists said that Pioneer V would take 311 days to make a complete circle around the sun That means the probe is in a slightly broader orbit than had been planned The original plan envisioned an orbit requiring 295 days Dr Abe Silverstein director of space flight programs for NSA said all the radio telemetry chan nels were working successfully He called it a firing He said radio signals had been picked up from am 15 min utes after launching up to when the transmitter was shut down on command from Hie earth He said the probe was re acquired at and and commanded off to conserve power at and Dr Homer E Newell deputy director of space flights pro grams said Pioneer V would gather from far out in the un disturbed regions of space infor mation much the same as that provided by satellites such as Ex VII which follow an orbit in that part of space disturbed by the earths own orbit Newell explained that the earth Reading Worries Parents CUPERTINO Calif AP little Jimmy En gelhardt shouldnt read this Hes only four but he can papers and encyclopedias Hes considered a genius But little Jim doesnt know that Hed rather play in mud with his little friends We had hoped there would be no said his daddy Ed ward J Engelhardt who owns a i firm in nearby San Jose 50 miles south of San Fran cisco Jimmy reads the papers and we had feared the effects of pub This concern was prompted by the attention focused on the New Jersey case of Alice Marie foster daughter of Richard Combs The state thought little Alice too bright for her par ents and objected when they tried to adopt her The New Jersey welfare board wants to place Alice Marie in some other home where it con siders she may have more op Jimmy is the young est of six children News about him reached officials of the Cup School District Glonn At kinson trustee of the district sug gested that educational guidance experts pretest the child with a view of entering him in school After listening to and watching Jimmy the officials decided he should be entered in school next September Hell still be not five until next Dec 2 Chil dren irr California normally enter kindergarten at five In the little shavers little Jim is TV Western little friends call him Quick Draw McGraw His dad doesnt know where the McGraw But he learned to read before he was two first from labels on grocery foods and then from TV commercials Engelhardt said The only time weve helped him is when he gets stuck on big words He said Jim reads a volume 01 a junior encyclopedia each week the daily newspapers and mal order catalogues The parents let him stay up late for a youngster to 11 he bounces out of bed at seven Were really reluctant to have anything said about it said his dad He probably wiH it in the papua in effect carves a hole in the suns corona or solar nebula Between this giant cavity in the corona cut by the earths orbit ing and the undisturbed solar nebulae is the dangerous radia tion area discovered by Dr James Van Allen and now known as the Van Allen radiation belt Newell added that in the 151 days it takes the probe to reach its perihelion or closest point to the sun other satellites will be launched They will make meas that can be compared with those of the solar probe He pointed out that if Pioneer V should detect a magnetic ef fect or a cloud of particles it would be interesting to learn whether and when these reach the vicinity of the radiation belts or of the earth Maj John Richards deputy di rector of the space probe division of the Air Force ballistic missile division Inglewood Calif said the launching rocket had performed almost exactly as planned Summer Has Short Life Winter came back to Big Spring on Friday replacing the sum mery conditions which prevailed on Thursday Heavy overcast blocked out the sun and a biting wind sent citi zens scurrying for shelter The temperature was pushed down near to freezing and the low pre for tonight is expected to reach 27 degrees The forecast bluntly promised colder this afternoon and tonight but held out a promise that Satur day wold be warmer The low last night was 34 which was a sharp drop from the high of 83 scored in midafternoon Thursday No moisture is forecast for the area V V f il C loses All Amadeo Barletta an Italian na tional has been stripped of his fortune estimated at 40 million dollars by Cuba The tion of was announced by the Castro govern ment The i n c 1 a d e Cubas largest auto agency TV stations and the newspaper El Mundo Barletta is now living at the Italian embassy in Havana Mrs Bart hold Founder Dies HOUSTON Augusta Smythe Barthold 86 a daughter of one of the founders of Texas died Thursday Mrs Barthold a daughter of the late Dr David Porter Smyth was a native of Bryan She had re sided here 58 years Funeral services will be held to morrow Burial will be at Bryan State To Review Custody Case Of Gifted Child TRENTON NJ and Mrs Richard Combs fight to keep their gifted foster child will be reviewed by the state board of child welfare next Thursday F Morse Archer of Camden board president said he has been asked to reconsider the decision to shift Alice Maries temporary home to a permanent one with more emphasis on books and less on television We will go into this very thoroughly and do what is best for the child Archer said These matters are always open for review and discussion Edwin Hann Jr acting tor of the state child welfare bu reau said a final decision prob ably would await the outcome of court action launched by the Combs couple But he told a newsman that in view of the lapse between the transfer decision and the cur rent furore the Old Bridge cou ples chance to keep Alice per might be looked at again We will have to reevaluate the child for what has developed in her environment since then eh said Hann said he has been getting dozens of telegrams letters and telephone calls from all over the country unanimously in favor of letting Combs 25 keep the girl described as a But he added that most of the people are acting emotionally and before they heard the states side of the the couple signed an agreement they could not adopt their foster baby Combs said he would ask Gov Robert B Meyner to intervene in the case but Meyner told news men would not Together Mr and Mrs Richard Combs hold heir daughter Alice In their Old Bridge V J home fearful that the state welfare board may successful In separating them child applied fot aad Uu claims heir home is not suitable for the development of a child as unusually intelligent as Alice The question is BOW before a for
