Del Rio News-Herald (Newspaper) - August 5, 1958, Del Rio, Texas town THE CULTURAL cUft WILL meet tomorrow at in the Roswell or with ft social to follow the business meet Ing in the home of Dr and Mra Rodriguez ALONG THE Rio Grande were burning last night oh the Mexican side of the river The blaze would be seen licking among the dried stalks from the Loop Road in the vicinity of the International Bridge Searing 102 Here Monday Del Rio sweltered under gree temperatures Monday and to days forecast Included no prom ise of relief from the heat H L Molyneux at the United States Weather Bureau said skies will be clear to partly cloudy and continued warm temperatures will prevail tonight and Wednesday Sundays maximum temperature was also 102 degrees following two days that had highs of 99 United Press International Skies were fair over Texas to day rain to alleviate soar Ing temperatures In the past 24 hours Lufkin had 22 of an Inch of rain No other stations reported rain Low temperatures early today ranged from 65 at to 81 at Galveston Recover Body of Odessa Man In Rio Grande Del Rio officers aided In the recovery of the body of W E Kel ler who drowned Saturday while wading In the Rio Grande on a fishing trip near Eagle Pass Border Patrol Pilot Paul with James Clark as his observer located the body Monday afternoon approximately 24 miles from the point where Keller was swept into the river by a rapid current Highway Patrolman Alfred Alee Jr of Del operated the boat in which Sheriff M F Stevenson of Maverick County went to re cover the body Keller with his son Richard and his soninlaw Bobby Cros well also ot Odessa were trying to wade across the river when they Loop Bishop presented slides and were swept off their feet by the discussion of range management practices Also were ranch practices of the Group of the dis ducted Sunday and Monday was at AJ until late Monday afta one o the in when the Border Patrol men located it by plane current Richard saved Croswell but Kel ler drowned Saturday The search for his body con WOMANS MIND UNSOUND HENDERSON Tex UPU A psychiatrist testified yesterday he examined Mrs On June 25 and said in his opinion she was of unsound mind at the time and still Is His testimony was delivered In the first day of a hearing into the death of Mrs two small daughters who were shot slept His testimony backed up Mrs plea of insanity at the time of the shootings The girls aged 9 and 11 were shot to death with a 22 calibre pis tol Late News M C LOCKE left presents award to Felix Harrison as conservation farmer Conservation Farmer Award of year at Monday Kiwanis Club Harrison Receives Kiwanis Plaque Felix Harrison was presented a plaque at Club meet ing Monday as the conservation farmer of the Devils lUver Soil Conservation District M C Locke program chairman presented the award for the club Harrison selected by the Soil Conservation District was the sec ond person to receive the Kiwanis Last year Ed Sceger waa awarded the plaque by the Members of the club were given a firsthand look at Harrisons conservation practices when L M Bishop technical assistant to the Devils River Soil Conservation District showed colored slides ao part of the program Of special interest were slides of the irrigation system employed by Harrison on his farm on the South Ranchmen Prices Up 3 In Months Time AUSTIN Vft re by Texas farmers ranchmen showed 4 3 per rent gain from to July 15 Hie V S Department jf culture reported today A major portion of the Inr crease vui attributed to high er prices received Jint further in fattle and which won tho award as the out standing soil conservation in Texas in 1957 Deferred grazing seeding as well as other conser vation practices were Illustrated by Bishop in his slides of the district DEL RIO WEATHER INFORMATION DEL RIO AND VICINITY Clear to partly cloudy and continued warm this afternoon tonight and Wednesday Maximum temperature minimum 78 Max temperature a year ago 101 minimum 76 Minimum temperature this morning 75 Time of sunrise time of sunset WEST TEXAS WEST OP Partly cloudy through Wednesday with widely scattered thunderstorms mainly In the Pan handle and El Paso area tonight no important temperature changes Wife Queen For Doy Gets Wish Special Training For In addition to locating and ar ranging for special training for lit tle Michael Mrs will be schooled so she Jip him at home as well Alpine C Of C Cold Te Leaving Texas Because she wished for training for the little son deaf and blind Mrs Prank of T Sgt Harr of Del Rio and Air Force Base was Queen for a Day on a popular pro giam to be televised In Del Rio Thursday Mrs Harr appeared on the pro gram In California and it waa filmed for televising Thursday She told how she longed to find special training for little old Michael Harr Is unable to communicate with his family and others around him Mrs Harr told how the family had tried to get aid for the second of their three children but had not been successful As a result of being named Queen for a Day that ei Mrs Harr was assured assistance in be to finding and securing such by With or for Michael iwe t we nit i f it He has a brother Gerald said Paul Forchheimer and a sister Michele 3 president ot the Chamber Jn addition to having her dear of Commerce est wish granted for aid for MeGaughy Michael Mrs Harr will receive a two weeks paid vacation at Lake Arrowhead a color television set By Press MOSCOW American lists space con ference here have told IKis siaus what became of major elements of their first two t Thailand The government hns declared a slate of emergency along itw with Cambodia and there was speculation here to day that Die may be getting ready for a new of against free Asia NICOSIA Sir Foot discussed with his top advisers today the next British move in the of the announcement made by the Cypriot underground or GENEVA The EastWest conference of nuclear experts got down to scientific work a gain today after a Community detour Into the field of politics MEXICO CITY National Railways Director General Ro berto Amoros expressed confi dence today that traffic in the national network will be resumed within the next 24 WASHINGTON Israeli government denied today re ports that a stiff Soviet note forced ft to withdraw permis sion for n airlift across Israel to Jordan t An emergency shipment of Salk polio vaccine left today by air for Nicaragua where a polio epi demic Is underway Texas Plans To Annex Portion Of New Mexico ALPINE Tex dents this town took a view today of a by New Mexico Firemen UlL jii When Car i Track Torn FIVE TO officers were required to handcuff Mrs Nickolai Federow after she and her husband were forced from their home in Goshen by tear gas The sought lor illegal sale of whiskey and operat ing a still held officers at bay for over two hours with a shotgun Police were reluctant to fire because of the six children NBA Telephoto New Classes Spanish For 8th Graders Latin Added To Del Rio High School been added to the arc required for the Del School superintendent said Wo offer lhat Texas counties Mexico Latin has curriculum of Del School and will be available when school opens this tall Superintendent p A suid today Thin Is the first time so I can determine that Lalin has been In the recent history of the wild We decided to add Latin before school was out May the first classes will be held in September Mis joined I IIP for County the Joined the faulty luU year will hTh now by New Mexico be the for the new Ian J h h lot Cole with a suggestion and will be nnd ninti that Texas should be the state to of fried the salri do the ol course IK run he three of and now this year of I ntin Cerda and Frank teach Span ish In Del Rio High School In another the continued we are offering Spanish to eighth graders In the DC Rio Junior High School inl other words we nrp making available to those in junior high now Junior hith whool the seventh Eighteen cars die of a west bound South ern Pacific train spilled off the tracks and several of them rolled of f a high embankment off the west end ofthe high Pecos River miles above Del evening about 7 oclock The derailed cars spread over a and curled 425 feet of rails from the track starting about 100 feet west of the Pecos bridge A Del Rio crew escaped injury in the smashup that rail cars along the wreck area like and wrapped up the heavy rail Several of the cars were a com plete wreck and 11 of them tum bled off the embankment pulled in from a 75 mile area worked through the night and through the morn ing to put the tracks back IB shape An east bound Limited passenger train waa waiting in Sandmon and waa expected to fo over the track at Tuesday the first traffic since the pileup G W Kelly assistant general manager of Southern Pacific and L H Loggins chief engineer for the line flew in from Houston about 2 today to direct the rush clearance Job I i l About 125 BP maintenance work ers from the area and two ateam derricks one from Sanderson and one from San Antonio were called In to help with clearing the wreck age Some of the cars that were blocking the tracks were dumped off the embankment to clear the area and will be salvaged later Kelly said No estimate bus been made of the damage Kelly added checked loadings of freight cars through he morn ing to get an estimate of salv age work to done he added Two carloads of new cars one of Cadillacs sustained no damage to their cargoes he added Four of contained 8 and freezer unit and j a gift certificate woith Premier Threatens Resign Seeks Withdrawal Of Troops Firemen Fight Blaze Monday in Chihuahua Area the u New it might for Texas Hi HIP HIP of letting Alaska hon merchandise and several were load cd with tin plate he said The pileup stalled 40 cars behind the the official said cause of the wreck was Two of i J i ht Pel ll i File I for our want Inl May tint to take in ull sound citizens would aie to as Jim the Al plw thul NiA Mexico would net the of u IA the citi fire city Lebanon UPD mier Sami Solh has threatened to resign unless American troops are withdrawn Immediately from anon Informed sources said si sion thewurfei it jirs dent A source close to the cabinet kcs without Meanwhile two more O S ships arrived with another wen more the was i maneuver to reveal Solh told the cabinet min the American forces in be Pen president o th i Both i Station 60 of hMh u th the aud t nla the of Wider aim hud al i The house located in a su cloae o jo county In the big Atn jhc 0 I wol cun be l Included If they are Mrs has i j tlw Wit I Ms fall we will only In Junior High to pending an Investigation laler we can in ninth and though speculation MS the demand will a LSD teach thut to wus i the the ca to touch off the 1 a said Fire out shortly the crash occurred were relayed to i rid where already fighting 4 house fire The San demon fire crew extinguished the The Pecos River is the on the Southern joute Kelly the stackup of cars had continued only 100 to 200 feet further back the tiain cars would have tumbled off the high bridge As it was they rolled down the embankment just off the Jwest end of the bridge i No information on the wreck was available from J South ern Pacific freight agent to Dei Rio Bonney Vineyard Academy Street was conductor on the F M Matthews 702 Main Street was engineer anol B All pel Bio The ftit apparently no Intention top Com emal ie station of an premier u S secret divorcee r at ta h with wells at the airport as u in th v v TTT sM Red conference in with a ique blasting Uu U S for obstructing power not been left the
