Del Rio News-Herald (Newspaper) - July 31, 1960, Del Rio, Texas I if Win of Priss DEL Rio YEAR DEL RIO TEXAS 31 ut Kennedy and Johnson Complete Plans for Vigorous Campaign SOUP K OF FIRE Members of the Del douse a badly bin nt 1 which was the source of a fire in the carport nf the Roger Stout residence 108 Ricks Drive Fri day afternoon Fugitive May Be in Mexico Blaze Damages Residence Here flying over the area nf Eagle Pass on a for a ranch hand and lu wife after the fatal shooting of i man near Castro ville found no trace of the stolen pickup ni which they were believed to have been traveling Sheriff Herman Hichter said at noon Saturday Val Verde County iff expressed the belief the pair driven to Piedras Ne grat across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass and hiding Otherwise Rich ter said the pickup could have likely been sported from the orison is still on the lookout at Crystal City and all of in this area arc sort of standing said We uol a radio call early Sat that sonic of the dead mans things had been found 14 miles out of Kagle Pass on the old Ka Ulc highway Border found sonic clothing and a billfold with some papers but no money in the sheriff said 1 think probably gotten into of murder and robbery wore against Paul Cole 24 of California who shot down K L Gilliam 51 Friday at a ranch south of Castrovillo The brother A L Gilliam about said Colo fired several shots at him and robbed him before m a stolon truck The brother owner of the ranch this account A L Gilliam heard his brother scream and ran to the scene near the ranch bouse while Cole fired several shots at him A L Gilliam ed the gunman to stop shoot ing and let him look at his brother who lay face down in the yard he bent over the wounded man the brother whispered Look out hes already shot Cole then fired another bullet that went through A L Gilliams hat The permitted his A L Gilliam and iilliams daughter Darla 17 to place the wounded man in a sla I lion wagon A L Gilliam said he hand i ed to the man and that his I brothers wallet also was miss ing i E L was dead on arriv al at a hospital Neighbors told officers of seeing Cole and his wife drive away in a j ranch pickup truck after the lion wagon loft Medina County officers received a report that clothing and empty billfold were found near Kagle on the Mexican border They believed the headed for Mexico or California fV Collision Claims Life FORT WORTH Kd ward Killough i thrown fiom his delivery and injured fatally after it collided with a car Friday Fire of undetermined origin damaged a storage closet and part of the roof at 108 Ricks Drive late Friday afternoon The alarm was sounded at and Del Rio fire men remained at the site un til No estimate was made of the damage Fire Chief W E Zorn said a set of padded springs stored in one corner of the storage room at the rear of the car port was the source of the fire A vent in the roof was scorched and the attic was filled with smoke The frame house belongs to Paul Gregory of San Angelo and is occupied by Mr and Mrs Roger Stout Zorn said The alarm came late in the afternoon when the tempera ture ranged from 107 to 109 degrees Gale Severe Damage tight Tropic Storm Sweeps MidAtlantic States By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tropical storm swept a cross the Middle Atlantic Stutes and into New England Saturday dealing out a turbulent combina tion of rains and gale force winds One lo six inches of rain swamp ed numerous communities in Hie storms path and produced local flooding Tides ran Iwo to three fed above normal on Chesapeake Coast Guardsman and vol struggled to save more than 75 racing yachts from damage as Brenda hit the Long U land Sound area near Niantic Conn Two ships pulled trou ble after running aground during the night but a salvage re mained beached A rain in eastern and southern Maryland and flooded in Cambridge took to fishing on the inundated thor Tampa Kla meas ured a since the storm began in the Southeast Despite the severity of the storm damage was relatively light Its hardest punch came in the form of heavy rain Some sections measured six inch rains in six hours Gale warnings flew along north cm coastlines Wind justs soared lo Gl miles an hour u heavy thunderstorm al Airport in New York city The Vermont was pull ed frup after running during the night southeast of S C The ferry Nan tucket bit a rock during heavy fog outside and anchored overnight until the fog was not damaged se verely aiui the 125 passengers safely Two Fort Stockton Women Killed in Crash TEXON Tex women members of a prominent Fort Stockton ranch were killed and a third was injured seriously in the crash of their car and a Santa I e Railway freight train Friday night Joe Montgomery 75 and her daughler Mrs Conoly Brooks were killed Another daughter Frank Fulk was seriously injured Mrs Montgomery was the wife of a Pecos County ranchman who onus extensive intercepts in the Class Mountains area between Fort Stockton and Marathon in West Texas Mrs Fulk is the wife of a Fort Stockton councilman Fhe accident happened about 6 miles west of Texon at a point where the Santa Fe tracks cross I S tij just inside County on a spur line to the Bene him Oil Fields Mrs Fulk was reported in poor condition at a San hospi tal Around Town Bj IMA 10 FLEETWOOD TWENTY TWO the Story Hour Friday in Val Ver de County Library Judy Walker is the narrator for the preschool ers Mrs John relates stories to the older children SUNDAY ROB DANIELS SON of Preacher and Pee Wee Daniels left for Austin the University of Texas for the second semester A graduate of Del Rio High Shcool in Hob will continue his studies In the fall RAY AND ROSS RE turned home Friday after a three j weeks vacation accompanied by j their daughter Reinwald and their grandson Ross of Fort i Worth for n two weeks visit En i route to Roundup Montana where i they visited their son Ray M I Ross they were joined by and Ross Reinwald in I Fort Worth for the trip that in I eluded Denver Estes Park and Rocky National Park in Colorado and Glisters Battlefield iff Wy They fished for mountain i trout and visited Glacier National Park in side trips from Roundup En route home they toured Yel National Park Grand Teton National Jackson Hole Wyoming and Colorado Springs Colorado In addition to the usual attractions they visit ed Ross Scout Troop at the Na tional Scout Jamboree encamp ment STANDARD John F Kennedy and Lyn don B Johnson the Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominee met in Port Mass and mapped plans for a legislative program in the Congressional session beginning August 8 They urged bi partisan support Jack Planning To Visit Texas By BEN WOODSON PORT John F Kennedy will campaign in Texas in the Democratic march to the white House he told Senator Lyndon B Johnson his running mate and the Texas senators jet powered emis saries of good will who visited him Friday night and Saturday at this vacation spot The two nominees conferred until the early ing hours of Saturday in the home of Joseph Kennedy a spacious white dwelling discussing campaign plans and issues The presidential nominee retired at 2 and Johnson two In Dixie Tenn Sen Lyndon B Johnson the vice presidential nominee was fea tured as the Democratic Party opened its drive in Dixie here Saturday night Governors from six south ern slates were slated to be on hand for the Democratic rally Johnsons appearance was ar ranged by Gov Buford Elling ton of Tennessee John Patterson of Alabama LeRoy Collins of Florida Luther Hod ges of North Carolina J Lind say Almond Jr of Virginia and Bert Combs of Kentucky were on the guest eleet Bryant of Florida Rep Hale Boggs and former Sen Earle Clements of Kentucky MR AND MRS JOHN CARRU who ranch in the Sanderson country were in Del Rio Thurs day Johns looking for Running Mates Set Legislative Push By MILTON KELLEY FOR Mas for Del Rio High School about i Sens John F Kennedy and Lyn 1924 if anyone has one His own I don B Johnson the Democratic annual was lost when fire presidential and vice presidential his home Hed kept track nominees agreed Saturday to of classmates by writing the press a multibillion names of their husbands or wives j dollar legislative program in the beside their pictures when they j Congress session beginning Aug 8 married and hes anxious to find and lo appeal for bipartisan sup another one if he can EARLINE SANKEY A RED Cross swimming instructor plans to give beginners swimming les sons at Moore Park starting Mon day at Details can be learned from her al the home of i her parents Mr and Mrs Earl Sankey port for it The American people will be quick to spot obstruction ist tactics aimed at keeping us from enacting much of this Kennedy told a news conference in a state ment in which Johnson also joined They the which has been suggested as a jarring answer to insults by Sov iet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Kennedy decision en whether to press this proposal in the short Congress session was held In abeyance until he Johnson can learn hew much defense money already appropriated has been im pounded by the administration Johnson made public a letter he addressed Thursday to Secre tary of Defense Thomas S Gates Jr asking for such a report The letter sternly phrased ask ul Gales to report on how fully session is ex funds are e I peeled to last only throe weeks lo report on gt and indicated they will simply beon laken or are pUnned to cl have to check and see how much wasteful practices at the MEMBERS OF THE SAN Fg really can be done lipe Country Club will be i Johnson and Kennedy disclosed j a special Sunday dinner from 12 j they had considered al length a oclock noon to 2 Evelyn i proposal to seek a bis new ap i Smith i told He said he also would contact the chairmen of various commit tees to explore whether there is any possibility of enacting civil rights legislation Johnson said he expects Con gress to meet six days a week starting its session early and working into the night A reporter told him Vice Pres ident Richard M Nixon the Re publican e a r e r has suggested that the Senate refrain from voting on important bills on Saturdays lest it embarrass any nominees Johnson replied tartly that he hasnt observed that it his made any difference to Nix ons plans in past whether the Senate was In session or net For the forthcoming ses sion he seid believes the peoples business comes hours later but both were back at work early Saturday morning be fore the press conference at 9 o clock The Texans in the chartered plane that left Austin Friday morn ing made an instrument landing three hours late under a ceiling that had forced the plane to change landing destinations twice During the meeting Saturday morning the rain fell steadily and the bay was marked with scud ding whitecaps Texans were favorably m pressed with Johnsons bearing during his visit with the pres nominee and with his confident assurance at all dis Kennedy a perfect host showed the me ferity load er deference and referred leg questions posed by newsmen to his running mate The group flew to Tennessee Sat for Johnsons conference with governors of six Southern States arranged by Gov Burford Ellington at Nashville one of the earliest supporters of the Texas senator for the presidential nom Sunday Senator Johnson and his group will be in Monticello Iowa then fly to Austin Texans were charmed by the gracious hospitality of the Ken clan and were impressed to envision the nominees wife Jac as a very young First dy of the Land They considered one of the most interesting features of the trip their opportunity to visit with Sen ator Johnson and his wife in flight These dis provided newsmen with an invaluable background on is sues and campaign plans for the drive to be launched for the top posts in the nation in September Newsmen representing highly re presentative newspapers from all areas of the state expressed the opinion their particular areas will vote for the ticket and carry them without pressure Earlier Friday the Texas group met with former president Harry Truman in Kansas City Missouri See KENNEDY Page DEL RIO WEATHER INFORMATION UK AND VICINITY ly cloudy with isolated afternoon and e v e m n g thunderstorms through Sunday little change in temperature Maximum temperai lure Friday 109 minimum 76 Maximum temperature a year j a no 03 minimum 73 Minimum i temperature Saturday morning 78 i Time of sunrise lime ol Gets Chair for Rape BEAUMONT Singleton 33 Negro was sen Friday to death in the electric chair for raping 58 earold white woman Texas Clip Largest Since 50 AUSTIN The states 1960 wool clip is estimated at 50 million pounds the U S De of Agriculture said Saturday This is the largest since The record wool year in the slate was 1843 when Texas produced pounds Last years production was pounds Some head will be shorn by Jan 1 U per cent more than in 1959 the USDA said Weight per fleece is expected to average nearly eight late legislative program for the bob tailed August session of Congress The agenda is Ken said The unfinished business mart range of fields all of them of key importance to the American people There are such key issues al leady on the calendar the Sen ate calendar of bills awaiting ac tion as medical care for the I aged housing aid to education 1 mutual security appropriations laud minimum wage legislations I We intend to devote our lull i energies to the enactment ol this 1 program and we will leave our I principal campaigning until the end of the session We hope to have the cooperation ol the Re publicans and their Kennedy said the outlined do not represent the whole gram planned He said be is la contact with the House Agriculture Committee exploring It he poitible to Son Angelo Has Record 111 More Heat Expected After Fridays 109 Little change in temperature is expected over Sunday the er Bureau announced Saturday after Fridays maximum of 109 degrees had pressed hard at the i summers top no and at the alli time record high of ill degrees I Isolated afternoon and evening J thunderstorms may fall through Sunday the forecast indicates and skies are expected to be ly cloudy High for the summer thus far tio was recorded June U July n led the procession of this month with 108 degrees then and on the day July 13 bad A respite from weather followed t to Ue heat July tt A rain in eastern and lifted She was not damaged Friday to death in the j nearly eight the House Agriculture Committee bad weather A respite Maryland i verely and the 125 passengers electric chair for raping a exploring what farm it from weather followed siom and flooded landed safely to SK WWi t to WH JLI 1 f i 111 II I rr i III I J M Monday is Dollar Day in Del A Town Full of Bargains for S with 104 followed fay 105 the next day and 108 Friday San Angelo registered an all time High of u degrees during Fridays scorcher Presidio as usual was the hot test spot with in Other Friday ranged from a hove 100 at more than two down reporting to Wett MA South Texas to a low mum of ail at Sherman in North Texas A few occurred tte and Pecos
