Pampa Daily News (Newspaper) - January 7, 1963, Pampa, Texas Will her peoples much Mch VOL NO 2M Circulation Certified bv ABC Audit The Top 0 Texas 55 Years THE f i From f Bureau f AMPA AM Ally air through Nd change in High for with a low fit 1125 for High for II PAGES TODAY WILLIAM FROST century Thursday Uncle Billy Frost To Observe His 100th Birthday Pampas only Wil liam Frost affectionately known as Uncle will be honored with a public reception from 3to 5 Thursday after noon in the Starlight Room of the Coronado Thursday will mark Uncle Bil lys 100th birthday The arranged by will be held only during the period and it has been requested that those who wish to congratulate Uncle Billy not go to his home before the re Scores of persons are expected to drop in at the Coronado recep tion and chat for a minute with Uncle Billy as Jerry Sims acts as master of ceremonies and host for the centenarians many A brief resume of Uncle Billys life as prepared by Dunigan tells of his birth at on the banks of the Allegheny It was Uncle Billys father who drilled the second well of whose first well is generally cre with being the original in the petroleum Frost started pumping oil wells at the age of H in vania and worked in Oklahoma and He was married to Miss Effie lane daughter of a in There were two sons and two daughters of whom only one son Charles Frost of Uncle Billy is a member of the Christian Church in He was the oldest of seven sons and only the youngest Burt still The 100yearold Pampan moved here in 1927 at the start of Pam pas oil He was a super intendent for the Dunigan Broth He now lives by himself at 1105 Charles Frost died He does his own cooking and takes care of his lawn and Many of Uncle Billys relatives will be in Pampa Thursday for the reception to join with his host of Pampa friends in extending felicitations on his reaching the 100year Youth Wounded Grand Jury To Probe Shooting Red China Blast The Gray County Grand J u r y today was to investigate circum stances surrounding the Sunday morning shooting of a 17yearold Pampa youth on the front porch of an Francis The was to be among 10 or 12 which were to he presented lo Ihe new jury after it was sworn in this Waters said most of the cases to be handed to the new jury for investigation were The 17yearold victim of Ihe shooting was still in Highland Gen eral Hospital b u t was expected to be released some time He was not seriously Police Chief Jim Conner said the youth was shot at Ihe home of 1210 Francis about and Harmon lold po lice that they were awakened by loud kicking and banging on the kitchen When Harmon de manded to know who was there and the noise continued he said he fired a shot from a 21caliher revolver through the top of the The intruder then went to the front door and resumed the kick Harmon He lold police he fired again through the front He said the noise slopped and he looked out the front win dow and saw Ihe youth going to the house next door at Harmon had called When they arrived they said they found the 17 year old boy lying on the living room floor of the house next door where he had knocked for lie had been shot in Ihe The bullel did not the police but had creased it just under the A Duenkel Carmichael lance was called and the y o u t h was taken to the Police said they pieced the story together that the youth had at tended a party Saturday night and ance and Ihe shooting did not oc cur until about four and half hours Eac Oth er In Edit Bitter Terms Spark Ideological Battle By ROBERT United Press International MOSCOW The Union and Communist China denounced each other through newspaper editorials to day in the bitterest terms either has used since their ideological battle A in lhe Soviet Communist parly news paper for the first time directly identified Red China as a backer of divisive views within the Commu nist It virtually accused Peking of trying to provoke war with a philosophy of It said critics of Cuba policy do not know what are talk ing Postage Rate Increase Starts In Red Chinas leading UPI Start TAKES OATH The Grand Jury of the 31st Judicial District was sworn in this morning at the Gray County Court house by Judge Lewis The Grand Jury will serve until They are front from left Clyde McLean Pampa Ed Second row from Pampa Lynn Pampa John McLean Third from Floyd Pampa Charles Pampa Roy The jury immediately went into session to begin work on its new News Photo British Cite US Attack New Starts In Pampa Today paper news and radio reports said to The announcement of a new in dustry for Cor mem concerning the new try realized day with the of actual operations of the day that British jet bombers i Through the assistance a n d n r ciat in n lit A I n rl i i i I I i penetrated the an r r i Committee of the defense network a few weeks ago n a simulated attack that caught at a meeting of the Industrial support of the Industrial Comma Chamber of the Chamber i T i The pn early Conservation District Vote Set Tomorrow Gray County voters will partici pate tomorrow in the balloting in Precincts 4 and 5 of Ground Water Conservation District 3 to elect a director and decide on an In which includes the west side of Gray a rector will be Fred Van of Pampa is up for re He is unopposed for lhe Precinct 4 eligible also will vote on the acceptance of an of the southwest corner of Carson County and the portion of Potter County into the Voting places for I will he at the Gray County Courthouse in Pampa and Precinct 5 which lakes in the eastern portion of Gray will vote on the annexa tion acceptance of the same areas of Carson and Potter Voters in 5 will ballots at Felix of While of the water MO South Viet Nam Troops Gave A Bad Performance Viet Nam military advisers complained bit lerly today about the poor per of South in the battle against Com munist Viet Cong guerrillas last They said one Vietnamese in fantry battalion flatly refused to advance on Ihe hamlet of Ap Bac even i hough Vietnamese and American cers at division headquarters or dered and pleaded for It was a miserable damn per said one Others spoke of a marked lack of aggressiveness among Viet They ig nored recommendations of their American The chain of command broke down in the 7th Vietnamese The according to Ameri can was a needlessly high government casually toll ol dead and 100 Ameri outnumbered six to es caped with far lewer casualties than the government ihe battalion refused lo advance on Ap Bac had lost its He was wounded and Other officers re fused lo assume An American captain wus killed while he was out front trying lo lead the battalion to A Vietnamese c a p l a i n coin an armored personnel carrier company refused ior an hour and 10 minutes to cross a canal and rescue 11 American helicopter crewmen and an infan try company pinned down by Viet Cong small arms The unit finally rumbled across ihe canal after screamed orders from and Vietnamese After rescuing mosi ol the wounded the unit attacked the but then when enemy fire started off exposed machine the American reports a lot of A spokesman said such an exercise was staged more than a year ago but declined to dis cuss the London newspapers mile per hour can the most modern striking staged a mock attack a few weeks ago that pierced defenses in the banquet j headed by 1 rank j fabrication of room of the Court House and with the financial Wants Harassment Ended of this be the and a complete line of steel Our plain will be one of the most modi i crn and complete west of the Misi the future of a dream has in 1 and will serve an a r e a covering New M e x i c Kansas and Other fabrications vices will be added as facilities I will such as oil field equip ment and related WASHINGTON theoretical journal Red Flag deing the average American voted more than words to annual for articles in accused will go up about Soviet Union of cowardice The reason Postal rate hikes i before Western strength and of approved by Congress last fall betrayal of the Communist into effect at The jRed Flag did not mention the of mailing a letter or post Union by name but the rose by a making i ences were the new rates j Pravda suggested the dispute Five cents for first class let might be solved through confer ences but indicated the Chinese Four cents for regular post would have to cease their attacks the Kremlin Eight cents for airmail letters The opposing editorials raised one the interesting but still Uglily Six cents for airmail speculative possibility of a hike will raise the normal confrontation at mailing to about the East German Communist para year but Postmaster General ty congress opening Edward Day said a stamp Soviet Premier Nikita still is one of the consumers Khrushchev already has said hebest will go but there has been no The cost of living has jumped word on who Peking is 118 per cent during the past 38 The Chinese Communists might Day but the cost of try to avoid a clash in such a i mailing a letter has risen only 66 per 3 cents to t The new also ap ply to and fourth class designed to pro Khrushchev I and bombed New Wash ingion and other key Bombers Took Part After a lengthy the Air Ministry confirmed the look part in such an around But a spokesman said it is not policy to stale whether exercises are or In the De fense Department was reported to Meredith Says He May Drop Out Of Ole Miss Ike Calls For A Reduction In Spending WASHINGTON President Dwight Eisenhower At the present time our plant said lhat anv tax cut is located on Price should he by a re and we will move into our own modern new quarters on ihe Bor ger Highway around 1st of Our new plant ap proximate an investment of f e d e r a across lhe were go duce about million in new revenue for the Post Office De between 7 and June 30 when the current fiscal year The additional revenue is expected to reach million jn fiscal 1964 and slash the post office deficit to about mil One small benefit to the public spending Of the rate change will be that See PageJ ing up too He also said Ihe i n t s t i tit i I vi i l met was based on a consid and will in ihe was increasing all bombers Meredith said today he does not j of all lhe elements ginning an estimated fifteen peo as de exercise to register for the next se u the Mississippi Waldon Moore offense and mester at the University of and its deepest meaning and of unless steps are laken to i all lhe of my personal the space pro ease the harassment lhat has made life at Ole Miss difficult for first Negro knowingly have said the last time the Bi it admitted lo the said ish participated in a raid he does not plan lo register for Reports of a later raid were lhe spring semester unless very labeled by a spokesman for the j definite and positive changes are North American Air Defense made lo make my situation more Command as just a lot of nonconducive to There long been reports that Meredith is having extreme difficulty with his largely about two months hut I due lo the pressure that has been The Air Ministry earlier had said lhe exercise took place in with il and in a statement given relationships lo to newsmen called in room this sized his decision is not to attend the university next semes ter under the present circum He I have not made a decision lo discontinue my efforts lo receive educational training at Ihe University of We are engaged in a a Pampa will head up this new as and i D him will be Shirley ormer bad ident said in a Edmondson Takes Kerrs Post Via as head of Drafting and Shop De and Ed as Fabrication Shu ley ond both the w e r e asked formerly with Metal of and will move their families to Pampa in k taxes such changed its The 1961 exer all around him since his j hitter war for the equality of op cise was codenamed during rioting the night nf for our Meie 2 and we put out about it at the man bulletin spokes If it comes horn hardware stort have Lewis is deier 30 which caused two deaths and The enemy brought thousands of f e d e r a 1 resourceful and troops to lhe Explains Reasoning Handbills Distributed Meredith said Ihe decision not j The harassment that has lo continue unless his conditions See Page 3 the very near We look forward lo lhe tures right of Pampa and area with an dont care and we pledge 001 selves particularly lo the continued progress not only ol our plant but to the community as a Ed Chairman of the Another new business recently established in is the See Page S 1 would like to see a very sub stantial lax but 1 would like lo see it accompanied by a suf ficient reduction in our tures right across the where they including nondefense The aggregate reduction need not necessarily be equal in amount to Ihe tax but it would show ihe sincerity ol the government in gelling our on a sane and sound Congolese Assuming Control Of Katanga his promotion from lame duck gover nor io senator to succeed tha late Robert faced tin prospect of a formidable ent in 1964 even before he took the oath of office Robert Kerr son of Ihe wealthy senator who died of a heart attack New Years announced he expects to run in to continue his fathers pro ilie luce will come in a year and could have implications as well as threaten to wreck an already split Oklahoma Democratic was to take thf at 11 The Congo he Congolese eminent moved to day to assume direct control of breakaway Katanga province and its rich copper and cobalt re i Premier Cyrille Adoula signed delegating an administra tive mission to take over ional authority and declaring thai laws on foreign cur would be imposed establish gn independent Ralph Bundle was i ing Nations milieu y Commanders in on wiping out lhe remaining lance from Katanga President Moise and his a Nations un i from today J be document was nun i force in Leopold v ille while and former Nobel Peace told news men he regarded days power as Tshombe has tried for two md a half lo Male I have to told lie said he resided lhe a spent political Tshombe was believed lo be in K o 1 w e a heavily fortified stronghold 150 air miles west of forces moved 10 miles toward from Jadotville over lhe Try Persuasion British and French consular ol were Irving lo persuade to end his resistance and go to in lalk to but there was little sign they would Threat Subsides ut a threat an direction subsided uhen le found Katanga in 1hiJinbe has betn a of and that hii forces will launch a guerrilla war if all eUe finis Reports reaching Southern said a load of weapons and with Northern he including four tank cars of gaso had been sent io Tshombe from Portugese There was no im of this bin such would of He tor ill last i to depart imme lo a job U it io lik lor 1 in a secret cere mony As bein expected since Kerrs death iov George who on ihe Katanga border completed an IN vance agreement and appointed to the Senate OM ai ion lions is anxious lo capture Dilolo which is on lhe border between Angola and any plans to attack forces in sources in ille reports ilial go on the nnh force said he was in constant touch with Kennedy of the plan in Tshombe but had no plans io at and Kennedy was well lack the kept the job secure for Kc publican Henry becomes governor said he advised President the
