Odessa American, The (Newspaper) - January 25, 1961, Odessa, Texas V F I- f s r I FREEDOM Tbf manifest of dom Is continued H ft Newspaper IT PAYS TO fei SHOP IN ODESSA VOL Member JAN M Cory PERMIAN EDITION TWENTY-TWO Caribbean Pirates Face Navy Portugal Navy said today the liner Santa Maria has been located in the Atlantic 550 miles east of the Windward Island This is the group of islands including SL where the seized liner put in Monday The Portugese frigate Pedro Escobar has put to said Rear Adm Quintanilha de minister A general order to stand by was circulated by the Navy to m Luxury Liner The Weather all naval commands in the East African colony of the the Cape Verde and Mozambique Rear Adm Sarmento rigues said the liner be sighted within a few that the ship had been located through radio checks h The owners of the Santa the Companhia Colonial de said the ship has more sufficient fuel for at least 11 British radio monitors cd indications that the Santa b Maria was headed for Portuguese colony in West ca The monitors said there were some indications that three warships were chasing her Portuguese naval sources said they were mainly concerned about the passengers and that their came first The Navy said there be a statement later Since Monday U S planes and a handful of American British and Dutch warships had ed the Caribbean and its tic approach without success for the ship seized early Monday morning on the high seas by an armed band claiming themselves ists against Salazar's 33 old rule of Portugal dollar the rebels cast a triumphant to the master mind of the daring plot Gen berto Delgado i who fled into exile after he charged the Salazar regime robbed him of the dency in the dis- closed at Sao that who seized the Maria were acting on his ders as head of the National In- From the trim dependent Junta of Liberation AT n ml 1 1 n x of Msht today ot UK I h MM i K h m Alpine It Kl 46 O n 1 t C3 York City Sin Ti 11 Sun vis Ht IS p.m Thursday nl U of nn 11 30 TO 37 3 31 4 Odessa scapes In f scape Andrews ler Guard FT Wash A Private from V Jack N Flores was shot to death Tuesday as he tried to escape from a work detail of military prisoners here Flores was one of four ers behind the post stockade at the time of the incident Their guard said when Flores tried to Janet G Travell of New York City selected as President Kennedy's sonal physician Dr Travell Is the first woman ever en for the post She Is also the first civilian since the Harding administration She has the Kennedy family for several years V You'll Find It EDITORIALS Page 4 TV LOG SOCIETY SPORTS OIL NEWS COMICS AMUSEMENTS Page 6 Page 9 Page 15 Page 16 Page HORSE SENSE TEST Page 22 DEAR ABBY GOREN ON BRIDGE YOUR STARS Page 10 3 Page 3 HOW TO KEEP WELL Pago IS Store Escapes A who kept one hand in his pocket as if he were ing a escaped with late Tuesday after Minit 2401 East Eighth here ri The robber was still free as continued to check out several leads in an at- tempt to learn his identity Leland 1001 said he was alone in the p.m Tuesday when a man walked into the grocery store The derk customer walked to the of the looked into the meat box is the lunch Rankin told of- he pointed to the display case and that the man picked up a package of lunch meat and a quart milk After laying the milk and meat on the the customer then picked up a package of cheese chips and placed them on t h e counter with the other items kin said he placed the groceries in a bag and then rang up the Testimony Due In Wiley Trial CLEBURNE was to start in the murder trial of Roosevelt Wiley Odessa charged in of a milk truck driver X items on the cash register which totaled i handed me a SI and a half and 1 the cash register to make change the man Hold it right there Hand me all the Rankin said The grocer said he placed the bills in the sack with the milk and meat and at that the bandit nodded toward another cash register and told give me the money out of Rankin said he took the money out of the second register and put it in the bag He said the robber then ed him to into the motioning towards the large walk-in cold storage walked to the opened the door and went in dosing the door behind Rankin saidL He said he looked out the dow in the big refrigerator and watched the man walk 10 the remove the receiver from the walk back to the pick up the sack containing the money and walk out of front door and head west around the building stayed in there like he told me Then a few minutes later be came back in front of the build- escape he ordered prisoner three times to and then ed two warning shots over head with a 12 gauge gun Military authorities said Flores h was being held for court martial on charges of being absent out leave and charges of larceny the son of Mr and Mrs Jack N Flores of was born on Nov at h Baird and moved to Andrews on Labor 1955 He was a of Andrews High and had been in the army two years and eight months Flores father said Wednesday his sen was being held in the stockade at Ft Lewis on a said his son had called him shortly before mas and said he planned to come to Andrews for the father said his son left the post without picking up his and was later arrested about 150 miles from Tacoma and was returned to Ft Lewis being Flores said the charges of against his son was He time back there was a deal but the didn't anything do with it I was there and it was out- of the army It amounted to a ride in a Flores said funeral services for his son would be in Callahan County but that other ments were pending Wednesday TO TME highway scene m Lubbock is typical of the conditions existing in Northwest Texas as a winter storm sweeps the area Freezing sleet and snow has been falling in the causing schools and disrupting communications and highway travel Press International ing and looked 1 was still here Rebels Halt r Laos Advance LUANG PRABANG Laos Stiff resistance by ported Communist rebels halted troops on the out- skirts of Muong Kassy Tuesday temporarily blocking plans to trap Reds 4 at the Sala Phou Koun road tion it reported today Officials here had hoped the column led by Col ikone would take Muong Kassy Tuesday If it had two battalions of government infantry would have moved in from to close the Sala Phou Koun trap All three towns are on the way linking Luang Prabang with advance has brought his task force within 20 miles of tbe WASHINGTON ident Kennedy will usher in a new era of presidential public relations late today when his first news conference will be carried across the nation The press conference was set for 5 p.m in the like auditorium of new State Department building several blocks from the White There will be scats for nearly 600 eight glassed-in broadcast platforms for 29 and photographers Everything Kennedy says in his press conferences will be for direct whether broadcast or not This is an- other departure from past White House custom under which the chief executive usually did not per rait direct quotation until his staff could check the transcript for sible errors if i Cor Wreck ear Sterlin f j Snow Onslaught i r The season's bitterest cold snap whistled into as producing subfreezing temperatures and severe icing conditions the state Odessa escaped the onslaught of and ice which hit portions of the but a frigid 16 degree temperature reading was recorded early Ice and snow hit the northern Permian Bend the Panhandle and North Central causing communications breakdowns and leaving roads with a deadly glaze of ice No is in sight through esday Six persons were killed in I accidents blamed on the and one Semi- ole school student was in- 1 jured when a school bus overturned on an icy road west of i The blustery front slammed in- to Odessa minutes after 1 p sending the mercury on n jn an hour's period The United Stales Weather reau at Terminal registered n 52 degree reading at 1 p.m and n 35 degree reading at 2 p.m The temperature to de- grees nt G p.m Wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour put an added bite into the i cold air 1 t- Severe icing conditions were F f reported at north into the South Plains and Texas Pan- handle and in Eastern New X W CO Roads were reported iced over and hazardous from Andrews northward and most roads in Eastern New were ered dangerous although ble Texas said roads Lubbock area were open to emergency traffic only Some icing was reported in the Rankin areas and roads were reported icing over between Rankin and Fort ton Wednesday morning Highways between Big Spring and Paso clear of north from El Paso reported dangerous Ex- tremely dangerous road tions were reported in the Fort Worth Wichita Amarillo and areas Four inches of snow was re- ported at on the South K r ity Takes Life Of Odessa Woman troops at miles southeast of in the Rankin had expected the to make a stand Bold Burglars Mrs Ruth Wagner Lucas 317 West Odessa died day in Sterling County Hospital to become the second victim of crash about eight miles west of Sterling City on Stale Highway 158 And one of two other members of the Lucas family injured in the wreck remained in critical con- dition at the Sterling City hospital Wednesday He is Frank Dale Lucas 29 Odessa Post Office who has a severe head a en leg multiple cuts and has been since the mishap Wednesday that cas was showing slight signs of improving but ed critical He said he had been Musician Goes On Trial Today BALTIMORE A year-old musician accused of ing five persons goes on trial day for the murder of two The federal court jury trial of Mclvin D Recs jazz was to open bo- from the critical list j fore Judge Thomson and was expected to last about two weeks Recs of Md faces trial on two of unable to set the broken bones be- of the victim's grave con- dition Funeral services for will be at 10 Thursday at Catholic Church in San Burial will Ixf in Calvary Cemetery under the direction of while north i r west of reported 3.5 inches of snow Telephones were out in the and Lubbock areas The front barrelled into Alpine at dropping the from 58 to 40 degrees in 40 minutes A low of 21 was re- corded in Alpine early day Roads in the Marfa and Fort Davis vicinity were esday but still in serious is Sherry daughter of Mr and Mrs who has a broken collar bone and multiple bruises Killed instantly in the collision Tuesday morning was Santos S 31 San lo lone occupant of the other hicle the kidnap murders He is charged in a indictment with the tion of Mrs Carroll Jackson 27 of Apple Va and her daughter Susan Ann 5 CHICAGO Mrs body was The former University of to Odessa late but arrested last June also is ling at Hubbard Funeral i accused of killing IS and Burglars i Hospital officials said she couple's other Johnson's Funeral Home in charge jcd but open Texas Texas Highway Patrolman Dale Highway Department crews were Bryce said the fatal mishap about 10 Tuesday on a straight stretch of highway He spreading salt on bridges and slopes Sleet was falling around Alpine il was raining at the time and at Wednesday while that the vehicles hit almost the temperature hovered al 23 on on ibc slick pavement degrees Roads were icing over Friends of the family said more and one inch of snow cas his wife and their daughter was on the were en route to Corpus Christi at Freezing drizzle began falling in the time of the accident They I Alpine late Tuesday night and said father had been into snow at 1 The ing in Odessa and left here about two hours earlier in his car and freezing weather extends 30 miles south of Alpine was supposed to meet his son in The reading in Corpus Christi Police were early Wednesday was the to advise the father of the hap until he reached Corpus Christi Kassy but he did not ex- Tuesday jimmied a front a skull a head th drove up to the store the major battle that and stole from James and also had broken An c jury of 11 men and one woman was selected Tuesday for trial on the A death called police being Km in an earlier trial set A jury Wylic of ibe knife slaying of L H- ada San in a Sterling Gry 24 1955 Tbe Court of Criminal Appeals ed bv Rankin of the IS and Mrs t Harold 35 a Maryland Atlas Flight Data Studied v eloped when his restaurant next door to central and reached tbc tow I police headquarters 1 A doctor at Sterling Funds Would Build New CAPE CANAVERAL was 5 est in and the current ter season The weather bureau a low between 15 and decrees for early Thursday i with the possibility of j and Wednesday Tbe weather bureau forecasts high of near 30 Wednesday with a high of 23 expected Tbc high tempera lure Air Force technicians today studied telemetry in the hope The forecast calls for cloudy and cold through on a tat a juror had been by reading a account of a paroled committing a Sons Get Estate By JERRY HAYNES American Staff Writer The Odessa College Board of Regents Tuesday set Feb 1 S as the date for a bond finance of a library The repeats listed 11 places for NEW YORK Mary Roberts Jeft a jodges for each of the bulk of j goes To her three sons According to Texas died in at least 250 registered voters in age of kft to Ector county most sign a tion asking for an election a stale al showed Tuesday lo have a total of signatures ing for the said Dr Jack Hodgers of ihc The election has called finance a The cost of the rus with an additional to pay for a foundation capable of holding an additional To completely equip the building and pay architectural fees would add college plans to pay a en tbr bonds to 1957 and from until 1971 the pay a said R A ing tbc A of all petitions have been to the focal agents handing tbe bond ekdico for Basil board bor said at a recent rnceting of the regents that tbc could be built without ing tbe present lax rate of 11 cents per valuation should be able to pay off the bonds in 30 he Deven balloting by regents for the ejection The city hall an- Hoss city hall rare North Fire Station East San zales School smith Community No- trees and i unity All absentee voting must be in the Ector commissioners will be Mrs Hughes B st Mrs Paul North Virs E 1134 Norih and George Lee Sr 1705 NorJa Ejection will be Mrs Little of pinpointing reason for with ibc chance of straight failure of an lipht snow and of proved Atlas snow tonight missile At Seminole ibc icy highways The rocket into were blamed for tbc wreck of a V I Atlantic Ocean more than bus 23 children offshore Tuesday main sustainer engine shut Billy 16 a throe minutes after head cut and bruises minutes before it was supposed in the accident None of the Tbe E cr students or the bus driver cres traced to a Milfer 50 were hurt in the engine i The Hard Way Mrs Howard Mankins was out walking in the Alton Mrs Ralph j woods he saw a Mrs threw up bis left hand in G Kelry K E protection and fired his caliber Tbe accident occurred the bus was turning off a highway onto a near the farm The got out of bus the rear door and were taken to the school Mrs A- Mrs W N and D Francis his right The passed through his hand aod the w Schools in Seminole and graves were recessed dav but other schools over COLD WAVE Page 2 F I
