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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1960
Page
3
Tobe Chaney of Arledge Ridge enjoyed plowing in light showers on Saturday. He started early and continued until dark, expressing that farming in rain can be fun.
An unidentified motorcycle rider skidded on a slick stretch of U S 82 east of Honey Grove Sunday afternoon. Highway Patrolman Bob Walker said the rider slid sideways and nearly rolled but stayed upright. The pair stopped, looked at Walker, and called it something.
Bill Lightfoot notes his pigeons are unusually trusting and will stand in the street until a passing car is near. They then slip aside carefully to allow the vehicle to pass.
More than 30 Bonham Scouts left Sunday for Camp Glover in Wright City Oklahoma. Rain barely touched the area as dust blanketed 15 miles of gravel roads and campers started with a three minute head start. Adult leaders Clyde Mayo Eldon Flair and Jimmy Collins stay in camp all week while parents deliver and return the boys Saturday.
The piece warns travelers to depart early for the July 4 weekend and return with the same cautious aim. It notes millions will leave Friday night or Saturday and come back Monday and stresses careful driving to reduce accidents. It cautions against slow speeds that impede flow and tempt dangerous passing in no passing zones.
Five Pampa residents died in a crash when a Rock Island train struck the car they rode in. The victims were Dan Mize, Ethel York, Tom Hammonds, his wife, and another Mrs. Hammonds. They were traveling from Fort Worth to Pampa after attending a Jehovah's Witness convention. Identification was difficult due to severe mangling.
The Havana munitions depot explosion killed at least two and injured about 200, smashing storefronts five miles away and sending a white mushroom cloud into the sky. Officials blamed sabotage while arrests mounted and Castro assailed the U S sugar quota amid rising tensions.
In Caracas a nationwide manhunt targets Manuel Vicente Yanes Bustamente a former civil servant linked to Friday’s assassination attempt on President Romulo Betancourt. Two people died and Betancourt was hospitalized with burns and shock as authorities urged public aid and noted his brother Fernando is in custody.
Light intermittent showers Sunday and Saturday brought .47 inches to Bonham. Higher amounts fell south of Bonham and along the Red River. Ground soaked up all rain. tanks run low, awaiting a heavy rainfall. Temperatures forecast to rise after a cool weekend with a high near 78 and upper 60s overnight.
Partly cloudy conditions move through North Central Texas with widely scattered thundershowers dropping in during the afternoons and evenings through Tuesday.
Five Communist chiefs signed a document endorsing peaceful coexistence with the West after Khrushchev’s week long summit with Romania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia East Germany and Poland. Western observers in London said the move aims to bolster his stance amid strains with Mao Tse tung and China. The secret talks followed the Romanian Communist party congress, and Khrushchev stayed an extra session before returning to Moscow.
UPI reports Russia and its satellite delegates walked out of the Geneva disarmament conference, dashing hopes for an accord during Eisenhower's term and threatening the separate U.S. Britain Russia nuclear test ban talks. Officials said the move mirrors Khrushchev's summit-wrecking approach and cited U.N. as a venue for broad views, not hard negotiations.
In Tokyo nine senior Liberal Democratic Party members agreed to nominate a new prime minister before July 1 to replace Nobusuke Kishi. Secretaries said a cabinet would be formed at the earliest opportunity, though selecting a successor made little progress. Kishi planned to resign and demonstrations by leftist groups opposing the government were anticipated.
The House approved a proposal to require each member of Congress to file an itemized travel expense report for government funded trips. By voice vote the measure was added to a Senate tacked money bill funding the run of Congress starting July 1. The Senate will consider it again for final approval. The House Administration Committee also set a $25 daily travel ceiling and mandated individual reporting.
At Geneva the Soviet bloc and allied nations abruptly left the 47th session of the 10 nation disarmament conference. Valerian Zorin charged the talks were in an abnormal situation and the group vowed to raise the issue at the United Nations General Assembly. The walkout halted Western proposals and sparked immediate turmoil as chair Marian Naszkowski ended the session.
Port Lavaca and surrounding Tex coastal towns faced flooding from heavy rains and rising rivers. At least seven people were reported missing or drowned, with 1,000 evacuees and 600 Houston residents seeking shelter as Civil Defense and Red Cross planned typhoid vaccinations and cleanup.
President Eisenhower met with top advisers on the world situation and legislative outlook as he prepared for tonight’s network address on his Asian tour. Vice President Nixon and Secretary Herter separately briefed him on international affairs, including East West disarmament talks in Geneva and pending legislation.
Port Lavaca faces severe pest control problems after flooding. District health official Joe Teller describes lack of sanitary facilities and silt clogged sewers, with 80 homeless in two schools. Water supply down. a portable treatment unit en route, and aid including 1000 typhoid vaccines and nurses dispatched.
Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B Johnson rejects a claim he threatened to block the aid for the elderly bill if Michigan Governor G Mennen Williams backs John F Kennedy. He calls it untrue and notes he hopes Congress passes a health plan this session.
Washington report says the House approved a compromise to extend corporate and excise tax rates to avoid revenue loss. Senate expected to pass and send to the White House for the president to sign before the midnight Thursday deadline. The plan would maintain existing tax rates for any given year with one change.
Brownsboro School Superintendent Homer Bass faced a state education commissioner in Austin as he contesting his firing for cause. The hearing covered alleged poor conduct and improper real estate dealings linked to Bass and a contentious board dispute that included a fatal shooting at a board meeting.
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